Art Institute of Chicago
The Simpson Chain
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Date
- 1896
- Medium
- Color brush and spatter lithograph (poster) on tan wove paper with lettering by another hand
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
This poster represents Lautrec’s final design for an advertisement for a bicycle lever chain recently invented by the London manufacturer W. S. Simpson. Competitive cyclist Constant Huret rides a bicycle equipped with the device, speeding on to victory with its help. This poster sports a much more dynamic composition than the artist’s previous attempt , as well as a more realistic depiction of bicycles, despite the four- and five-seaters in the background.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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