Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Trivia Quiz

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'.

Answer: False

At age 12 he broke his left leg, at age 14 his right leg and from then on his legs ceased to grow.

Answer: Napoleon III had banished public houses from the renovated city centre

The owners of the vineyards were a religious congregation of nuns who used the earnings from their wine-production for charities.

Answer: watermill

It originally had been a windmill, painted in red. Another famous 'mill' was the Moulin de la Galette.

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.

Answer: False

Aristide Briand (1862-1932), was 11 times Prime Minister of France. Motivated by his socialist and pacifist ideals, he worked for a reconciliation between France and Germany, and severely criticised George Clemenceau's unforgiving attitudes to 'the enemy'.

The singer Aristide BrUant(1851-1925) was the very embodiment of the Montmartre cafe concert scene. He had his first successes at his own cafe 'Le Mirliton' and later performed in clubs such as 'Le Chat Noir', ' les Ambassadeurs' and ' Eldorado'.

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.

Answer: Maisons closes

Works typically inspired by Lautrec's acquaintance with the 'filles de joie' of Montmartre were: Elsa la Viennoise; A la toilette; Femme nue devant sa glace; Femme rousse nue accroupie; l' Anglaise du Havre, the lithographies of the album 'Elles'.

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.

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'.