Written in French. The other dimension of the work that must be linked to his learning is the desire to represent time, and soon to deploy its duration rather than to freeze its movement. Whether it was Princeteau, his master in equestrian painting, Cormon, an energetic painter par excellence, or Degas, who pushed him to track the dynamics beyond dance, Lautrec never stopped reformulating the space-time of the image. The artist has managed to reconcile the subjective fragmentation of the image with the desire to raise modern life to new myths. As his correspondence attests, Manet, Degas and