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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), Equestrienne (At the Circus Fernando), 1887/1888, French. Oil on canvas. 100.3 x 161.3 cm. Courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Ill (http://www.artic.edu); Joseph Winterbotham Collection; photograph © 2001, The Art Institute of Chicago.

Had he been able to live as the nobleman he was born, said Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) in later life, he would not have become a painter. But because of a genetic bone disorder believed to be related to his parents' consanguineous marriage, Lautrec could neither ride nor take part in the other strenuous activities common to an aristocratic family in southern France. Instead, under the devoted eye of his mother, he spent much of his time drawing. When he was 18, he left the family estate in Albi and, accompanied by his mother, went to Paris where he studied painting with Leon Bonnat and Fernand Cormon; by . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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