About this artwork
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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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Title
- The Simpson Chain
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1896
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Medium
- Color brush and spatter lithograph (poster) on tan wove paper with lettering by another hand
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Dimensions
- Image: 81.5 × 119 cm (32 1/8 × 46 7/8 in.); Sheet, sight: 85.2 × 123 cm (33 9/16 × 48 7/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of the Gecht Family
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Reference Number
- 2015.278
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/180664/manifest.json
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