Yvette Guilbert (recto) Three-Quarter Length Study of Yvette Guilbert (verso)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
c. 1894
Medium
Graphite on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
23.1 × 35.6 cm (9 1/8 × 14 1/16 in.)
Classification
graphite
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113255
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...