TOULOUSE LAUTREC, Henri de (1867-1920), peintre et lithographe français.

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TOULOUSE LAUTREC, Henri de (1867-1920), peintre et lithographe français.
L.A.S., [to his maternal grandmother and godmother Madame Léonce Tapié de Céleyran]. S.d. "December 28th. 4 pp. in-8. Beautiful unpublished letter: "Béneu, béneu, béneu, toutis en mano!... I don't come en masse, but I alone try to play my part in this great New Year's Day comedy which gains so much from being played in family with screens for backstage. I nicely regretted eating for the first time in 4 years, all the shepherds shepherds and shepherdesses. Especially since I am not at all regenerating French art. I am struggling against unfortunate sheets of paper that have done me nothing and on which I do nothing good. I hope it will get better in a little while because I'm pathetic! The Pascal family is coming and so is Louis [his cousin Louis Pascal]. I was afraid that his daddy would play bogeyman for a while to punish him for a failure that he tried to avoid this time as much as he could. Drelin drelin, here is the spectre of Percy rising. I embrace you and offer you all the good wishes I have in my wish-a-wish. Please be my ambassador to Aunt Alix's Uncle Amédée and all the cousins and aunts Armandines [Armandine d'Alichoux de Sénégra]. Tell them that I will write to them especially [...]".
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