Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec as a falconer
About this artwork
An early oil painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec depicting his father, Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec, on horseback with a falcon perched on his raised hand. It reflects the artist's early interest in equestrian subjects and aristocratic life.
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's father, Count Alphonse, was an eccentric aristocrat with a deep passion for falconry and horses, often dressing in traditional costume. This painting captures the count's obsession with these pursuits during a period when the young artist was still developing his signature style, far from the cabaret scenes of Paris he would later become famous for.
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Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec as a falconer
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1882
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