Toulouse lautrec biography by gilles neret

Toulouse Lautrec (1864-1901) was a French post-impressionist painter and draftsman, famous for his lithographs and posters of the dance halls and cabarets of the late 19th century in Paris.
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse- Lautrec Monfa, known as Toulouse Lautrec, was born in Albi, near Toulouse, in southwest France, on November 24, 1864.

Son of the Count and Countess of Toulouse- Lautrec Monfa, first cousins degree, he had inherited a congenital bone disease.

He lived most of his childhood at the Château du Bosc, his grandfather's house. His father and an uncle were good draftsmen and encouraged little Henri.

At the age of 14, after two successive leg fractures, they compromised the development of the lower limbs. While recovering, he made several paintings.
In early 1882, Lautrec moved to Paris, accompanied by his mother. He entered the studio of Léon Bonnat, defender of academic norms and against the impressionists, he did