Charles Maurin
1898, printed and published 1911
Medium
Drypoint from a zinc plate in black on cream laid Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 17 × 9.8 cm (6 3/4 × 3 7/8 in.); Sheet, max: 36.6 × 23.1 cm (14 7/16 × 9 1/8 in.)
Classification
drypoint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
40888
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...