The print is the point
Anyone can sell the image — it’s public domain. What you’re buying here is the object: how faithfully, and how durably, the masterwork lands on your wall.
- Museum-grade cotton-rag
- Heavyweight archival cotton-rag stock — the same acid-free paper conservators trust — not thin poster stock.
- Archival pigment, 100+ years
- Pigment inks, not dye: rated to hold their colour past a century without fading or shifting.
- Colour-managed to the source
- Each file is profiled to the holding institution’s own scan, so the print reads as the painting does.
- Gallery canvas on solid wood
- Canvas is gallery-wrapped over kiln-dried solid-wood stretcher bars — taut, square, ready to hang.
Moulin Rouge: La Goulue
The poster that turned advertising into art.
- Work
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Moulin Rouge: La Goulue
- Artist / creator
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)
- Origin & date
- Paris, 1891
- Held by
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Format
The full-resolution color-managed file — yours to print, study, and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution supports sizes up to 18x24 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
Toulouse-Lautrec’s first poster stopped Paris in the street. The dancer La Goulue — “the Glutton” — kicks up her petticoats at the centre, lit yellow; in the foreground the rubber-limbed contortionist Valentin le Désossé looms in flat grey silhouette; behind, a black frieze of top-hatted spectators. Lautrec had learned from Japanese prints to throw away detail and keep only the essential shape, the bold flat colour, the daring empty space — and to letter the whole thing as design. Overnight the commercial poster became a serious art form, and the Moulin Rouge became legend. The birth of the modern graphic image, pulled off in a single sheet.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York’s open-access release.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan.
- Every factual claim about this work — title, artist, date, and holding institution — is verified against the art-historical record and the source institution.
- Ships in 5–8 business days; satisfaction guaranteed.
