
Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec Driving His Mail-Coach is a painting byHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec of his father, a great lover of horses,[1] completed in 1881 when Toulouse-Lautrec was 17 years old. It is now in thePetit Palais in Paris.
The work is highly influenced by equestrian scenes byCrafty and by British and American engravings of horse-teams. It is signed in the bottom right-hand corner "HTL,Souvenir de laPromenade des Anglais". The painter stayed on theCôte d'Azur several times due to his bad health and was inspired byNice.[2]
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