Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Photo taken in 1894
Born	Henry Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (1864-11-24)24 November 1864 Albi, Tarn, Second French Empire
Died	9 September 1901(1901-09-09) (aged 36) Saint-André-du-Bois, French Third Republic
Resting place	Cimetière de Verdelais
Education	René Princeteau, Fernand Cormon
Known for	Painting, printmaking, drawing, draughting, illustration
Notable work	At the Moulin Rouge Le Lit La Toilette
Movement	Post-Impressionism, Art Nouveau

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter of the Post-Impressionist period. He was born into a noble family, but lived for most of his life among the actors and dancers of Paris. He is famous for painting the lives of these people, the entertainment of Paris, and many portraits.

He was expert at drawing and also made many printed posters to advertise entertainments.

In a 2005 auction at Christie's auction house a new record was set when La blanchisseuse, an early painting of a young laundress, sold for $22.4 million U.S.

Biography
- Youth
Art
Cooking skills
Death
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Biography

Youth

Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa was born in Albi in the Midi-Pyrénées region of France. He was the oldest child of Count Alphonse and Countess Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec. His mother and father were cousins. This is thought to have been a reason for his weakness and bad health. His younger brother was born on 28 August 1867, but died the following year.

Henri had two accidents when he was 13 and 14. He fractured (broke) the thigh bones of both his legs. They took a long time to heal, and never grew again. No-one knows exactly what caused this problem. As an adult he had a man-sized body but child-sized legs and was 1.54 m (5 ft 1 in) tall,

Art

At the Moulin Rouge, 1892, Art Institute of Chicago. Self-portrait in the crowd (background center-left).

As a young man, Toulouse-Lautrec was not able to do many of the things that other men of his age liked doing. He had been good at drawing from the time he was a child. He spent his time drawing and painting instead of joining in sports and hunting. He travelled to Paris where he met other artists as well as writers, actors and dancers. The "night life" (entertainment) of Paris had so many colourful scenes and people to paint. His paintings are famous for showing the scenes of modern life in a way they had never been shown before.

In a career of less than 20 years, Toulouse-Lautrec created:

737 canvassed paintings
275 watercolours
363 prints and posters
5,084 drawings
some ceramic and stained-glass work
an unknown number of lost works

He excelled at depicting people in their working environments. He was a master at painting crowd scenes where each figure was highly individualised. Toulouse-Lautrec's skilled depiction of people relied on his highly linear approach emphasising contours. He often applied paint in long, thin brushstrokes leaving much of the board visible. Many of his works may be best described as "drawings in coloured paint."

He painted the singer Yvette Guilbert, the dancer Jane Avril and the dancer Louise Weber, who was known as "La Goulue" ("The Greedy-Guts") and who created the leg-kicking dance called the "Can-Can", which is still danced at the "Moulin Rouge" to this day.

Cooking skills

A fine and hospitable cook, Toulouse-Lautrec built up a collection of favourite recipes – some original, some adapted – which were posthumously published by his friend and dealer Maurice Joyant as L'Art de la Cuisine. The book was republished in English translation in 1966 as The Art of Cuisine – a tribute to his inventive (and wide-ranging) cooking.

Death

Toulouse-Lautrec's grave in Verdelais

Toulouse-Lautrec died on 9 September 1901, at the age of 36, at his mother's estate, Château Malromé, in Saint-André-du-Bois. He is buried in Cimetière de Verdelais, Gironde, a few kilometers from the estate.

After Toulouse-Lautrec's death, his mother, Adèle Comtesse de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa, and his art dealer, Maurice Joyant, continued promoting his artwork. His mother contributed funds for a museum to be created in Albi, his birthplace, to show his works. This Musée Toulouse-Lautrec owns the most extensive collection of his works

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Images for kids

Woman at the Tub from the portfolio Elles (1896)
La Promeneuse by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Oil on cardboard, dated 1892.
Moulin Rouge: La Goulue, poster (1891)
Bouquet of violets in a vase, 1882, oil on panel, Dallas Museum of Art
Portrait de Suzanne Valadon, 1885, oil on canvas, Museum, Buenos Aires
The Laundress, 1884–1888, oil on canvas, private collection
Portrait of Vincent van Gogh, 1887, pastel on cardboard, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Portrait of Gabrielle, 1891, oil on cardboard, Museum Toulouse-Lautrec
La Goulue arriving at the Moulin Rouge, 1892, oil on cardboard, Museum of Modern Art
At the Moulin Rouge (Two Women Waltzing), 1892, oil on cardboard, National Gallery in Prague
Un coin du Moulin de la Galette, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Englishman at the Moulin Rouge, 1892, oil on cardboard, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Quadrille at the Moulin Rouge, 1892, oil and gouache on cardboard, National Gallery of Art
Jane Avril leaving the Moulin Rouge, c.1892, oil and gouache on cardboard, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
In Bed, 1893, oil on cardboard, Musée d'Orsay
Marcelle Lender Dancing the Bolero in "Chilpéric", 1895–96, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art
Examination at faculty of medicine, May–July 1901, oil on canvas – his last painting, Museum Toulouse-Lautrec
Aristide Bruant in his cabaret, 1892, lithography print
Ambassadeurs – Aristide Bruant, 1892, lithography print
Divan Japonais, 1892–93, crayon, brush, spatter and transferred screen lithograph, printed in 4 color-layers
The German Babylon, 1894, lithography published by Victor Joze
With Louis Comfort Tiffany, Au Nouveau Cirque, Papa Chrysanthème, c.1894, stained glass, 120 x 85 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Miss Ida Heath, 1894, crayon and brush lithograph with scraper
The Box with the Gilded Mask, 1894, color crayon, brush and spatter lithograph with scraper
The Jockey, 1899, mix of lithograph, oil and watercolor on paper, Brooklyn Museum
Photo by Maurice Guibert c.1887
Photo by Maurice Guibert, 1892
Photo by Maurice Guibert

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