Art, literature & history
Cycle Michael
1896
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Brush lithograph in olive green on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 83.5 × 115 cm (32 7/8 × 45 5/16 in.); Sheet, sight: 88 × 126.5 cm (34 11/16 × 49 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1949.1026
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Cycle Michael. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; Art Institute of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Cycle Michael — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. 1896.
Medium: Brush lithograph in olive green on tan wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 83.5 × 115 cm (32 7/8 × 45 5/16 in.); Sheet, sight: 88 × 126.5 cm (34 11/16 × 49 13/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Lautrec was an enthusiastic fan of sporting events, emphasizing the late 19th-century French bicycling fervor in two posters (see 2015.278 ). Both were meant to advertise a new bicycle part to a ready audience of some half-million riders. However, the artist’s subtle preliminary version seen here was rejected, and the lithograph was never produced in more than one color. Instead Lautrec personally funded an edition of 200 monochrome impressions.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.