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Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa was born at the Château du Bosc, Camjac, Aveyron, in the south of France, the firstborn child of Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec Montfa (1838–1913) and Adèle Zoë Tapié de Celeyran (1841–1930). He was a member of an aristocratic family (descended from both the Counts of Toulouse and Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, as well as the Viscounts of Montfa).His younger brother was born in 1867 but died the following year. Both sons enjoyed ...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (born November 24, 1864, Albi, France—died September 9, 1901, Malromé) was a French artist who observed and documented with great psychological insight the personalities and facets of Parisian nightlife and the French world of entertainment in the 1890s.His use of free-flowing expressive line, often becoming pure arabesque, resulted in highly rhythmical compositions (e.g., In the Circus Fernando: The Ringmaster, 1888).The extreme simplification in outline and ...
Toulouse-Lautrec poses the prostitute - one of his favorite models - as a laundress, taking a break from her physically intensive and exhausting work. And while Toulouse-Lautrec was famous for wanting to expose the hardship of Parisian life, there is a subtle delicacy and warmth to this work that belies his affection for this woman and her toils.
Lautrec executed about sixty versions of this print in a variety of colored inks, including gold and silver, which evoke, cumulatively, the effect of her performances. Lautrec’s poignant depiction of a prostitute in the painting Woman before a Mirror offers a counterpoint to Fuller’s dazzling exuberance. Nude save for her black stockings ...
Feb 5, 2021 · Toulouse-Lautrec depicted—and poked fun at—Paris’s arts scene. Looking at Toulouse-Lautrec’s prints, drawings, and paintings, one gets a distinct sense for what it was like to patronize a ...
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa was born in Albi on the 24th of November 1864, to a family with roots in the most ancient provincial aristocracy. Lautrec suffered from a congenital bone disease, most likely due to the consanguineous marriage of his parents. It played a decisive part in shaping the young man’s destiny.
French, 1864–1901. Introduction Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), known as Toulouse-Lautrec (French: [tuluz lotʁɛk]), 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 sometimes decadent affairs of those times.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. French, 1864 - 1901. Lautrec Monfa, Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse; Monfa, Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec
Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colorful 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.
Lautrec is listed among "The Most Beautiful Villages of France" as well as a "Remarkable Site for Taste" thanks to its renowned pink garlic. Its remarkable sites include: the village itself, with its 14th century market square; the Saint Remy collegiate church and its sumptuous marble retable; the 17th century windmill, one of the few still working today in the South of France;
