page_title: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
section_title: Alcoholism
hierarchical_section_title: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec / Alcoholism
caption_attribution_description: English: La Promeneuse by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Oil on cardboard, dated 1892
context_page_description: Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa, commonly known as just Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, affairs of those times.
  Toulouse-Lautrec is among the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period, with Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin.
  In a 2005 auction at Christie's auction house, La Blanchisseuse, his early painting of a young laundress, sold for US$22.4 million and set a new record for the artist for a price at auction.
context_section_description: Toulouse-Lautrec was mocked for his short stature and physical appearance, which led him to abuse alcohol.
  He initially drank only beer and wine, but his tastes expanded into liquor, namely absinthe. The Earthquake cocktail (Tremblement de Terre) is attributed to Toulouse-Lautrec: a potent mixture containing half absinthe and half cognac in a wine goblet. Due to his underdeveloped legs, he walked with the aid of a cane, which he hollowed out and kept filled with liquor in order to ensure that he was never without alcohol.
caption: La Promeneuse by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Oil on cardboard, dated 1892.
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