Editing Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (section)

==Early life==
Henri<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-09-22|title=Toulouse-Lautrec: The art of bacchanalia|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/toulouse-lautrec-the-art-of-bacchanalia-423646.html|access-date=2020-12-26|website=The Independent}}</ref> Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa was born at the Château du Bosc, Camjac, Aveyron, in the south of France, the firstborn child of [[Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec Montfa]] (1838–1913)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/count-alphonse-charles-de-toulouse-lautrec-monfa-1838-1913-news-photo/113625662|title=Count Alphonse Charles de Toulouse Lautrec Monfa 1838–1913 Father of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec|date=4 May 2011 |publisher=gettyimages.co.uk}}</ref> and Adèle Zoë Tapié de Celeyran (1841–1930).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.genealogie87.fr/pages/genealogie-monographie-familiale-qui-ont-marque-l-histoire/toulouse-lautrec.html |title=Histoire et généalogie de la famille de Toulouse-Lautrec Montfa et de ses alliances |publisher=genealogie87.fr |access-date=17 February 2015 |archive-date=27 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927210714/http://www.genealogie87.fr/pages/genealogie-monographie-familiale-qui-ont-marque-l-histoire/toulouse-lautrec.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> He was a member of an aristocratic family (descended from both the [[Count of Toulouse|Counts of Toulouse]] and [[Odet of Foix, Viscount of Lautrec|Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec]], as well as the [[Viscount]]s of [[Montfa, Tarn|Montfa]]). His younger brother was born in 1867 but died the following year. Both sons enjoyed the [[courtesy title|''titres de courtoisie'']] of ''[[Count|Comte]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=C. |first1=Ives |title=Toulouse-Lautrec in the Metropolitan Museum of Art |year=1996 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0k6xtdWZkXIC&q=toulouse+lautrec+henri+comte&pg=PA61 |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996 |isbn=9780870998041 |access-date=17 September 2019 |quote=Comte Henri-Marie-Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864-1901}}</ref> If Toulouse-Lautrec had outlived his father, he would have inherited the family [[Nobility of France|title]] of ''[[Count|Comte]] de Toulouse-Lautrec''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bellet |first1=H. |title=Toulouse-Lautrec gallery at the Palais de Berbie - review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/apr/24/toulouse-lautrec-gallery-reopening-review |access-date=17 September 2019 |work=UK Guardian|date=24 April 2012 |quote=From his father he would have inherited the title of Count of Toulouse-Lautrec.}}</ref>

After the death of his brother, Toulouse-Lautrec's parents separated, and a nanny cared for him.<ref name=TL-Book1>Author Unknown, "Toulouse-Lautrec" – published Grange Books. {{ISBN|1-84013-658-8}} [http://www.bookfinder.com/dir/i/Toulouse_Lautrec/1840136588/ Bookfinder – Toulouse Lautrec] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202134137/http://www.bookfinder.com/dir/i/Toulouse_Lautrec/1840136588/ |date=2 February 2014}}</ref> At the age of eight, Toulouse-Lautrec lived with his mother in Paris, where he drew sketches and caricatures in his exercise workbooks. A friend of his father, [[René Princeteau]], sometimes visited to give informal lessons. Some of Toulouse-Lautrec's early paintings are of horses, a speciality of Princeteau's and a subject Toulouse-Lautrec later revisited in his "Circus Paintings".<ref name=TL-Book1/><ref>ArT Blog: Toulouse-Lautrec at the Circus: The "Horse and Performer" Drawings [http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart14/archives/2004/12/horse_and_rider.html blogs.princeton.edu] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090728053558/http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart14/archives/2004/12/horse_and_rider.html |date=28 July 2009}}</ref>

In 1875, Toulouse-Lautrec returned to Albi because his mother had concerns about his health. He took thermal baths at [[Amélie-les-Bains]], and his mother consulted doctors in the hope of finding a way to improve her son's growth and development.<ref name=TL-Book1/>

===Disability and health problems===
[[File:Guibert 2.jpg|thumb|Mr. Toulouse paints Mr. Lautrec ({{Circa|1891}}), a photomontage by [[Maurice Guibert]]]]
Toulouse-Lautrec's parents were [[first cousins]] (their mothers were sisters),<ref>{{Cite web |last=Morrison |first=David |date=2013-11-25 |title=The Genealogical World of Phylogenetic Networks: Toulouse-Lautrec: family trees and networks |url=https://phylonetworks.blogspot.com/2013/11/toulouse-lautrec-family-trees-and.html |access-date=2023-09-28 |website=The Genealogical World of Phylogenetic Networks}}</ref> and his [[Congenital disorder|congenital health conditions]] have often been attributed to a family history of [[inbreeding]].<ref>Toulouse-Lautrec, H., Natanson, T., & Frankfurter, A. M. (1950). ''Toulouse-Lautrec: The Man''. N.p. p. 120. {{OCLC|38609256}}</ref>

At the age of 13, Toulouse-Lautrec fractured his right [[femur]], and at age 14, he fractured his left femur.<ref name="TheTimes">{{cite web |title = Why Lautrec was a giant |work=The Times |location=UK |date = 10 December 2006 |url = https://www.thetimes.com/article/why-lautrec-was-a-giant-fbndn5rx826 |access-date =8 December 2007}}</ref> The breaks did not heal properly. Modern physicians attribute this to an unknown [[genetic disorder]], possibly [[pycnodysostosis]] (sometimes known as Toulouse-Lautrec Syndrome),<ref name="Valdes-Socin 2021">{{cite journal |last=Valdes-Socin |first=H. |title=The syndrome of Toulouse-Lautrec |journal=Journal of Endocrinological Investigation |publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC |date=2021-01-09 |volume=44 |issue=9 |pages=2013–2014 |issn=1720-8386 |doi=10.1007/s40618-020-01490-4 |pmid=33423220 |s2cid=231576363 |oclc=8875586623}}</ref><ref name="Angier">{{cite news| first = Natalie | last = Angier |title = What Ailed Toulouse-Lautrec? Scientists Zero in on a Key Gene |newspaper=The New York Times |date = 6 June 1995 |url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE7D61338F935A35755C0A963958260 |access-date =8 December 2007}}</ref> or a variant disorder along the lines of [[osteopetrosis]], [[achondroplasia]], or [[osteogenesis imperfecta]].<ref>{{cite news |title = Noble figure |newspaper=The Guardian |location=UK |date = 20 November 2004 | url = http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,6761,1355241,00.html |access-date =8 December 2007}}</ref> Toulouse-Lautrec's legs ceased to grow when he reached {{convert|5|ft|0|in|abbr=on|order=flip|disp=or}}.<ref>Harris, Nathaniel (1989). ''The Art of Toulouse-Lautrec''. New York: Gallery Books. p. 27. {{OCLC|1193360125}}.</ref> He developed an adult torso while retaining his child-sized legs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ameanet.org/henri-de-toulouse-lautrec |title="Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec". AMEA – World Museum of Erotic Art |publisher=Ameanet.org |date=22 February 1999 |access-date=12 August 2013 |archive-date=24 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191024172040/http://ameanet.org/henri-de-toulouse-lautrec/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>