At the Folies-Bergère: The Modesty of Monsieur Prudhomme
Medium
Lithograph on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 37.3 × 26.9 cm (14 11/16 × 10 5/8 in.); Sheet: 38.5 × 28 cm (15 3/16 × 11 1/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
35907
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...