W. H. B. Sands, Publisher
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1898, published 1911
Medium
Drypoint from a zinc plate on cream laid Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 26.1 × 11.9 cm (10 5/16 × 4 11/16 in.); Sheet: 36.6 × 23.2 cm (14 7/16 × 9 3/16 in.)
Classification
drypoint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
40875
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...