The Terror of Grenelle
Medium
Color lithograph on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 17.4 × 11.4 cm (6 7/8 × 4 1/2 in.); Primary support: 19.4 × 13.7 cm (7 5/8 × 5 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 36 × 27.6 cm (14 3/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
4561
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...