Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec Driving His Mail-Coach

Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec Driving His Mail-Coach is a painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec of his father, a great lover of horses,[1] completed in 1881 when Toulouse-Lautrec was 17 years old.

The work is highly influenced by equestrian scenes by Crafty and by British and American engravings of horse-teams.

It is signed in the bottom right-hand corner "HTL, Souvenir de la Promenade des Anglais".

The painter stayed on the Côte d'Azur several times due to his bad health and wasinspired by Nice.

[2] This article about a nineteenth-century painting is a stub.

Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec Driving His Mail-Coach (1881), now at the Petit Palais (Paris).