Yvette Guilbert
Medium
Three ivory laid sheets with deckled edges folded in half and sewn to form six pages with letterpress in black and red
Dimensions
Sheets, folded: 49.8 × 38 cm (19 5/8 × 15 in.); Sheets, unfolded: 49.8 × 76 cm (19 5/8 × 29 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
137865
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...