Cover for the first album of L'Estampe originale — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Fine Art Poster
Cover for the first album of L'Estampe originale — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Fine Art Poster
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The Story in the Margin
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec created this cover for the first album of "L'Estampe originale," a quarterly portfolio that commissioned leading artists of the day to design original prints, helping elevate lithography to a respected fine-art medium in 1890s Paris. The design reflects his innovative approach to commercial graphic art, using flat planes of color, bold contour, and dynamic cropping influenced by Japanese ukiyo-e prints. Toulouse-Lautrec's poster and print work fundamentally reshaped the visual language of French graphic design.
Printed with archival giclée inks on smooth, acid-free 220 gsm gallery-grade fine-art paper; available in multiple sizes.
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This is genuinely one of the nicest things we own now. The smallest marks in Cover for the first album of L'Estampe originale are still visible, which is the entire point. It came through a summer of wildfire smoke and open windows with no smell at all.
The subject alone sold me and the execution sealed it. The detail in Cover for the first album of L'Estampe originale holds up with my face inches away. This one is staying with us a long time.
The subject was exactly what I was hunting for and the reproduction is clean. The hand of Toulouse-Lautrec is visible in Cover for the first album of L'Estampe originale in a way I did not expect at this price. My mother has strong opinions about how a house should look, and even she liked this one.
It made the hallway feel finished in a way I could not manage on my own. The clarity of Cover for the first album of L'Estampe originale makes it look like the original was photographed yesterday.