Romain coolus toulouse-lautrec biography

1864Henri-Marie-Raymond Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa is born at 6am on the 24th November in the Hôtel de Bosc in Albi, a city in the south of France.

He is the first son of Count Alphonse-Charles-Jean-Marie Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa (1838-1930), born of a very old French family, and of his wife Adèle-Zoé-Marie-Marquette Tapié of Céleyran.

1868Richard-Constantine, Henri's younger brother, dies at the age of one.

In August, his parents separate.

1872The countess moves to Paris with eight year-old Henri.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's unfinished sketch of Monsieur Romain Coolus is a testament to his fame.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's unfinished sketch of Monsieur Romain Coolus is a testament to his fame.

'Romain Coolus' was created in by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Post-Impressionism style.

René Max Weill (– 9 September ), who used the pseudonym Romain Coolus, was a French novelist, dramatist and film scriptwriter.

The artwork “Romain Coolus” by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, created in , is an oil on cardboard portrait exemplifying the Post-Impressionism movement.

Lautrec is introduced to the literary world, in particular that of the theatre, through the intermediary of Bernard, Romain Coolus and Félix Fénéon.

He starts school at the Lycée Fontanes in October, and his classmates include his cousin Louis Pascal and Maurice Joyant, who is to become his friend and his first biographer. He covers his schoolbooks with sketches and caricatures.

René Princeteau, a friend of his father and a deaf-mute artist who paints animals, gives him his first drawing lessons.

1875 In January, young Henri is in fragile health and goes back to Albi