Aristide Bruant
Medium
Color lithograph poster on tan wove paper, laid down on white wove Japan tissue
Dimensions
Image: 81.5 × 58.5 cm (32 1/8 × 23 1/16 in.); Primary support: 81.7 × 60.8 cm (32 3/16 × 23 15/16 in.); Secondary support: 83.4 × 62.6 cm (32 7/8 × 24 11/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
13598
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...