French poster artist, cartoonist, illustrator, and author who achieved notoriety during the Belle Epoque. Best known for his posters of the chanteuse Eugénie Buffet, he was also a popular cover artist for the Parisian humor magazine Le Rire and a frequent contributor of cartoons and illustrations to it and other magazines. He illustrated books by a number of prominent authors of the time and wrote at least two books of his own.


Toulouse-Lautrec and his friend Lucién Metivet drinking absinthe c.1885. Photograph © Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi-Tarn, France