Gustave Lucien Dennery (1863-1953), peintre

May 1878

Fracture of the Right Femur

At the age of thirteen, while rising from a chair, Henri broke the neck of his right femur.

August 1879

Fracture of the Left Femur: His Legs Stopped Growing

Falling into a ditch, Henri fractured the neck of his left femur. After this incident his legs ceased to grow; the fractures healed poorly, which modern physicians attribute to a hereditary disorder.

February 1888

Eleven Works at the Les XX Exhibition in Brussels

At the invitation of the Belgian critic Octave Maus, Lautrec presented eleven works at the exhibition of the group Les XX in Brussels; Theo van Gogh bought the painting "Rice Powder" for 150 francs for the Goupil & Cie gallery.

1889

Poster Commission for the Newly Opened Moulin Rouge

With the opening of the Moulin Rouge cabaret in 1889, Toulouse-Lautrec received a commission for a series of posters; the cabaret reserved a table for him and displayed his paintings, and the poster work gave him an income of his own.

February 1899

Collapse and Three Months in a Sanatorium

By February 1899 his alcoholism had taken its toll: Lautrec collapsed from exhaustion, and his family placed him for three months in the Folie Saint-James sanatorium at Neuilly-sur-Seine, where he drew 39 circus portraits.

9 September 1901

Died