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The Hangover (Gueule de Bois)
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His pitiless observation captures the beauty of life, and the philosophy of vice which he sometimes flaunts with a provocative ostentation nevertheless takes on, because of the forcefulness of his drawing and the seriousness of his analysis, the instructional value of a lesson in practical morality.—Gustave Geffroy on Toulouse-Lautrec, La Justice, February 15, 18931(p165)2(p2)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) was born in Albi, France, the son and heir of Comte Alphonse-Charles de Toulouse-Lautrec (1838-1912). He was the last in the line of a family dynasty of noblemen who had ruled much of Rouergue, Provence, and the Languedoc, France, for more than a thousand years. His ancestor, Raymond IV (c 1038-1105), count of Toulouse, organized the expedition that was primarily responsible for the capture of Jerusalem in 1096 in the First Crusade.3
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