"Mademoiselle Cocyte in "La Belle Hélène"

The sick Lautrec spent the winter of ¹⁹⁰⁰⁄₁₉₀₁ in Bordeaux, where he visited the Grand Th�âtre and painted scenes from Isidore de Lara’s opera “Messaline” and Jacques Offenbach’s operetta “La Belle H�l�ne.” We know from a letter to his Parisian friend Joyant, however, that he was not enamoured of the actress playing the beautiful H�l�ne: “H�l�ne is played by a fat sow called Cocyte.”