Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa, commonly known as just Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, affairs of those times.
Toulouse-Lautrec is among the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period, with Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin. In a 2005 auction at Christie's auction house, La Blanchisseuse, his early painting of a young laundress, sold for US$22.4 million and set a new record for the artist for a price at auction.
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa was born at the Hôtel du Bosc in Albi, Tarn, in the Midi-Pyrénées region of France, the firstborn child of Alphonse Charles Comte de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa and his wife Adèle Zoë Tapié de Celeyran. The last part of his name means he was a member of an aristocratic family.
His younger brother was born in 1867, but died the following year. Both sons enjoyed the titres de courtoisie of Comte and had Henri outlived his father, he would have been accorded the family title of Comte de Toulouse-Lautrec.
After the death of his brother, Toulouse-Lautrec's parents separated and a nanny eventually took care of him. At the age
Toulouse-Lautrec is among the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period, with Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin. In a 2005 auction at Christie's auction house, La Blanchisseuse, his early painting of a young laundress, sold for US$22.4 million and set a new record for the artist for a price at auction.
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa was born at the Hôtel du Bosc in Albi, Tarn, in the Midi-Pyrénées region of France, the firstborn child of Alphonse Charles Comte de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa and his wife Adèle Zoë Tapié de Celeyran. The last part of his name means he was a member of an aristocratic family.
His younger brother was born in 1867, but died the following year. Both sons enjoyed the titres de courtoisie of Comte and had Henri outlived his father, he would have been accorded the family title of Comte de Toulouse-Lautrec.
After the death of his brother, Toulouse-Lautrec's parents separated and a nanny eventually took care of him. At the age
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