The Photographer Sescau
Medium
Color lithograph on ivory laid paper, laid down on linen
Dimensions
Image: 60.7 × 79.2 cm (23 15/16 × 31 3/16 in.); Sheet: 61.1 × 79.2 cm (24 1/16 × 31 3/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11136
About the Artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1864–1901
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa (1864-1901) was a French Post-Impressionist painter, printmaker, and illustrator whose innovative poster designs revolutionized graphic art and advertising in late 19th-century Paris. Born into an aristocratic family at Albi in southern France, Toulouse-Lautrec's privileged lineage traced back to the Counts of Toulouse and extended uninterrupted to th...