Moulin Rouge: La Goulue
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 to 1901), 1891
$150
Print check at 12 x 18 in: 192 dpi, good. Trimmed 6.7% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Checkout is not open yet. Your cart is saved on this device.
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.
- Maker
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 to 1901)
- Date
- 1891
- Medium of the original
- Painting
- Original held by
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Credit
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00653
| Picture | 12 x 18 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 13.6 x 19.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | 289 | Excellent | Trimmed 6.7% |
| 12 x 18 in | 192 | Good | Trimmed 6.7% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 21% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 144 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | 115 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 96 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | 57 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,314 x 3,722 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 30, lights 227 of 255; 0% clipped light, 1.1% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 54.08
Shipping for this piece to a US address is $25.90, the print room’s own rate, charged per piece. Checkout shows the total before you pay.
Every piece is printed after you order it, in Charlotte, North Carolina, and ships from there. For now we ship to US addresses only.
A piece that arrives damaged, misprinted or in the wrong size is replaced at our cost. The details: shipping and returns and replacements.
The Old Masters
The paintings everyone knows: the summit of the canon.
All 80 pieces from The Old Masters
