What was wrong with Toulouse-Lautrec legs?

Toulouse-Lautrec suffered with health conditions for all of his life; he fractured both of his legs as a teenager and these never healed, leaving it to be widely believed that he suffered from a congenital bone disease. While he developed an adult-sized torso, his legs never grew beyond those of a child.

How tall was Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec?

1.52 m
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec/Height

What did Toulouse-Lautrec suffer from?

Toulouse-Lautrec syndrome is named after the famous 19th century French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, who is believed to have had the disorder. The syndrome is known clinically as pycnodysostosis (PYCD). PYCD causes brittle bones, as well as abnormalities of the face, hands, and other parts of the body.

What did Henri de Toulouse Lautrec do for art?

Toulouse-Lautrec was the first artist to elevate advertising to the status of a fine art. This is an extraordinary shift in the history of art, obliterating the boundaries between high (painting, drawing, sculpture) and low (posters, logos and other forms of visual culture) art.

How tall was Toulouse Lautrec when he died?

After two serious riding accidents his legs stopped growing. At his full height, Toulouse-Lautrec was 5 feet tall, with the upper body of a man and the legs of a child. He walked with a cane and in considerable pain for the rest of his life.

How old was Henri de Toulouse Lautrec when he broke his femur?

Toulouse-Lautrec’s parents, the Comte and Comtesse, were first cousins (his grandmothers were sisters), and he had congenital health conditions sometimes attributed to a family history of inbreeding. At the age of 13, Toulouse-Lautrec fractured his right femur.

When did Henri de Toulouse Lautrec paint Vincent van Gogh?

Portrait of Vincent van Gogh (1887) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec made a chalk pastel on cardboard portrait of Vincent van Gogh in 1887. Toulouse-Lautrec had encountered Vincent van Gogh, ten years his senior, when they were both taking lessons at the open studio (atelier libre) of Fernand Cormon in Paris from 1886 to 1887.