Program for the Gémier Benefit
Medium
Lithograph with text added, in dark gray on gray-brown wove paper
Dimensions
Image, T-L: 30.6 × 21.1 cm (12 1/16 × 8 5/16 in.); Sheet, folded: 32 × 24.8 cm (12 5/8 × 9 13/16 in.); Image, Anquetin: 26.9 × 21 cm (10 5/8 × 8 5/16 in.); Sheet, flat: 31.9 × 49.5 cm (12 9/16 × 19 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
67159
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...