Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Trivia

1. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born on 24 November 1864 at Albi. His father belonged to the French nobility and was a _____________?

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Answer: comte (count)

Count Alphonse was a rather special character. When Henri was dying, the rarely seen 'Comte' suddenly showed up. Everyone was astonished except the dying painter himself. His comment was : 'Good Papa. I knew you would not miss the 'kill''. Very appropriately phrased as the Count was a fervent huntsman. Henri's last words were addressed to his dad. They were not particularly flattering though. 'Vieux con', was Henri's bye-bye to his eccentric daddy - which is equivalent to 'You old fool'.

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Answer: Albi

He was born Henri-Marie-Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa to an aristocratic family. Albi is a French cathedral city in the Pyrenees.

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Answer: First cousins

The marriage was one of convenience - Adele-Aoe Tapie de Celyran married Alphonse-Charles de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa only to keep money within the family. Possibly as a result of this, they led separate lives after 1868, with Alphonse womanizing and Adele becoming very religious.

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Answer: pyknodystosis

Yes, that is a word. It's a hereditary disease that causes brittle bones and is worsened by inbreeding. While young, Toulouse-Lautrec broke both of his legs and neither leg continued to grow. He matured to have a full-sized body with short legs. He became very sensitive about his appearance.

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Answer: Rene Princeteau

In Toulouse-Lautrec's time, for someone of his station, art was supposed to be nothing more than a gentlemanly, leisurely past-time, and his parents did not approve of his art. This was evident in their choice of teachers for their son: his first teacher (Princeteau) was a deaf-mute who painted generic, academic art. Toulouse-Lautrec moved on within a month.

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Answer: Louise Weber

Suzanne Valodon was Lautrec's model for such paintings as La Buveuse. La Goulue had first been Renoir's nude model. Her dancing partner was Jacques Renaudin, better known as Valentin le Desosse (the Boneless). Jane Avril was the star dancer of Le Moulin Rouge after La Goulue had left. Jane Avril was a totally different type of dancer. Her style was a graceful, refined and melancholy mix of prudery and provocation.

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Answer: Leon Bonnat

Bonnat taught students in order to prepare them for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (France's top art school). Bonnat stressed the importance of drawing as the basis of painting. However, within 6 months, Bonnat became a teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and once again Toulouse-Lautrec had to find a new teacher.

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Answer: Fernand Cormon

Cormon also emphasized drawing, but allowed his students quite a bit of leeway in finding their own style. Toulouse-Lautrec quit attending Cormon's studio when he discovered Japanese and avant-garde style art.

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Answer: Vincent van Gogh

Cezanne had no need to be told about the qualities of the south of France as that was the area where he was born, more particularly at Aix-en-Provence. Pissarro was a close friend of Claude Monet's and seems to have been quite satisfied with the less sunny climates of Normandy and Paris. Gauguin...went to even sunnier places than the south of France.

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Answer: Aristide Bruant

Bruant, the owner of a cabaret called Le Mirliton, introduced Toulouse-Lautrec to the world of Montmartre.

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Answer: Moulin Rouge & The Moulin Rouge & The Moulin-Rouge & Moulin-Rouge & MoulinRouge & Le Moulin Rouge

This was also the point where Toulouse-Lautrec would begin to drink heavily, which would affect him later in life.

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Answer: The Prince of Wales

The Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII, was not very lucky when paying a visit to Toulouse-Lautrec. When he wanted to say hello to the artist, Toulouse-Lautrec turned out to have fallen asleep in his armchair, overcome with fatigue and probably too much ...alcohol. Though Toulouse-Lautrec was a great designer of posters, it was not him who invented the 'Your Country Needs You' recruiting-poster.

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Answer: alcoholism

He had become very physically and mentally unfit, and he even experienced severe delirium and hallucinations.

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Answer: at the castle of Malrome, amidst his family

He had been taken up at the Neuilly hospital in 1889 for a delirium tremens problem. Nice is where he stayed various times when he was still a young boy. James Abbott Mc Neil Whistler was born at Lowell, Mass. in 1834. He died in 1903 after having thoroughly scandalised traditional art critics such as John Ruskin. The Toulouse-Lautrec family was for once au grand complet. Even Henri's eccentric, and perpetually 'absent' father, the Comte Alphonse attended. Malrome, at Saint-Andre du Bois, in the Bordeaux area, was the family residence of the Toulouse-Lautrecs. Nowadays it is a 'wine-chateau'.

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Answer: May Milton

Toulouse-Lautrec also cut off part of May Milton...this puts emphasis on the fact that she is leaving.

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Answer: La Goulue

La Goulue is looking in a mirror.

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Answer: to focus attention on La Goulue

The handrail also distances the viewer from the subjects by putting a barrier between the scene and the spectator.

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Answer: 36

He died on September 9, 1901, leaving behind about 700 oil paintings, 5,000 drawings, and 350 lithographs.

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