图卢兹-劳特累克在维伦纳沃-苏尔约讷与纳坦松一家的肖像

By 1898 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was not a well man. The Montmartre nights and the drinking were catching up with him, and within three years he would be dead at 36. But Vuillard caught him here on holiday, away from Paris, in the kitchen of a country house at Villeneuve-sur-Yonne that the magazine publisher Thadee Natanson had rented for the summer. Lautrec loved to cook, and he is doing it here in earnest, still wrapped in wet-weather gear after a storm, minding his favourite dish of lobster. The little panel is oil on cardboard, barely bigger than a sheet of paper. Lautrec's friend and dealer Maurice Joyant gave it to the museum in Albi, the painter's home town, in 1914.