Cover for Yvette Guilbert
Medium
Lithograph on gray-brown wove paper laid down on board
Dimensions
Image: 38.4 × 40.5 cm (15 1/8 × 16 in.); Sheet, folded: 40.8 × 39.4 cm (16 1/8 × 15 9/16 in.); Sheet, unfolded: 40.8 × 78.7 cm (16 1/8 × 31 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
7635
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...