Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

One of the leading Post-Impressionist painters, Toulouse-Lautrec was born at Albi, the son of Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec. He began painting in the late 1870s, moving to Paris in 1882 where he became a pupil of the academic painters Bonnat and Cormon. Under the influence especially of Degas and Van Gogh he broke with official art and set up ...