The Jockey Going to the Post
Medium
Color lithograph on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 43.5 × 29.4 cm (17 3/16 × 11 5/8 in.); Sheet: 46.2 × 31.7 cm (18 1/4 × 12 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
4601
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...