The Arton Trial, Ribot Giving Evidence (second plate)
Medium
Lithograph on tan wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 44.5 × 55.8 cm (17 9/16 × 22 in.); Sheet: 46 × 62.9 cm (18 1/8 × 24 13/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
35850
Art Historical Context
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, a leading Post-Impressionist artist celebrated for his incisive portrayals of modern Parisian life, created this 1896 lithograph as part of a series documenting a sensational courtroom event. Known primarily for his posters and scenes of cabarets and dance halls, Lautrec here applied his sharp observational skills to a political trial, capturing the tense atmosphere and human drama of testimony with economical, expressive lines. The work depicts a moment from the Arton Trial, a high-profile case tied to the Panama Canal scandal that exposed widespread corruption in ...
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...