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Moulin Rouge — La Goulue
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · French entertainment poster, Moulin Rouge, 1891
What it is
Toulouse-Lautrec’s poster for the Moulin Rouge, starring the dancer La Goulue silhouetted against a gaslit crowd.
Why it matters
His first poster, and one that instantly reset what a poster could be — flat color fields, a photographer’s crop, no sentimentality about Montmartre’s nightlife.
What to notice
The foreground dancer rendered as pure black silhouette against the crowd’s pale, ghostly faces.
The cabaret, drawn without apology.
Provenance
- School
- Belle Époque — the Affiche (France)
- Designer
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Printer / house
- lithograph
- Format
- One-sheet
- Poster published
- French entertainment poster, Moulin Rouge, 1891
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-17.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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