Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec [antikvár]

Plaie 2. mlle, eglantine's company. iSçô. Collection Charell Count Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's life was brief but arresting. He was born to a family of landed gentry whose line went back to the time of Charlemagne, but he preferred the company of disreputables and lived out his life in the pleasure haunts of Montmartre. His taste for the picturesque may well have been an aristocratic legacy passed on by a quaint and autocratic father. The elder Lautrec's consuming passions in life were hunting and extravagant, story-book costume. For his son he outlined at an early date a program of