Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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. Born into the aristocracy, Toulouse-Lautrec broke both his legs around the time of his adolescence and, due to the rare condition pycnodysostosis, was very short as an adult due to his undersized legs. In addition to his alcoholism, he developed an affinity for brothels and prostitutes that directed the subject matter for many of his works recording many details of the late-19th-century bohemian lifestyle in Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec has received more than 4,560,591 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is the 46th most popular painter, the 108th most popular biography from France (down from 94th in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Painter.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is most famous for his paintings and drawings of Parisian nightlife in the late 1800s.