Sketch
Medium
Drypoint from a zinc plate on cream laid Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 15.7 × 12.1 cm (6 3/16 × 4 13/16 in.); Sheet: 37.8 × 23 cm (14 15/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
Classification
drypoint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
40873
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...