Tristan Bernard
1898, printed and published 1920
Medium
Drypoint from a zinc plate in olive green on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 16.9 × 10.2 cm (6 11/16 × 4 1/16 in.); Sheet: 31.1 × 22.6 cm (12 1/4 × 8 15/16 in.)
Classification
drypoint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
55830
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...