Located in the sumptuous setting of the Palais de la Berbie, the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum is one of the most important museums of contemporary art in France, of international stature.
It reopened its doors on April 2, 2012 and houses the world's largest public collection dedicated to Henry de Toulouse-Lautrec.
More than 1,000 works, including the 31 famous posters are preserved and exhibited.
The visitor will also be able to admire paintings of youth, major portraits, brothel paintings, posters, lithographs in a presentation that allows to follow the evolution of the painter.
The Toulouse-Lautrec Museum also offers a 156-seat auditorium, a collection of modern art, a gallery dedicated to archaeological discoveries, a temporary exhibition room, a room dedicated to workshops, an important documentation center and a gallery dedicated to the Episcopal City.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, descendant of the Counts of Toulouse
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa comes from one of the greatest aristocratic families of the Southwest, descendant of the Counts of Toulouse.
His father, Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa and his mother Adèle Tapié de Céleyran were first cousins.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, born in Albi at the Hôtel du Bosc, spent a large part of his childhood on his mother's estate, the Château du Bosc at Camjac in Aveyron. As a teenager, the young Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec suffered a fracture of his left femur and then of his right leg.
Affected by pycnodysostosis, a hereditary bone disease, his growth was stopped and his legs remained very short. He did not exceed the height of 1.52 meters. He died at only 37 years of age, leaving a huge body of work composed of more than 700 paintings, 275 watercolors, 369 lithographs.
He is buried in Verdelais in Gironde.
Toulouse-Lautrec Museum
Palace of the Berbie,
Place Sainte-Cécile
81000 Albi
https://musee-toulouse-lautrec.com/
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