Why Not? . . . Once is Not to Make a Habit of It
Medium
Crayon, brush, and spatter lithograph printed in olive green on wove paper; only state
Dimensions
image: 12 5/8 x 9 13/16 in. (32.1 x 25 cm) sheet: 17 11/16 x 12 3/8 in. (45 x 31.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Accession Number
49.55.139
Tags
About the Artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec|Edward Ancourt|L'Escarmouche · 1864–1901
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa (1864-1901) was a French Post-Impressionist painter, printmaker, and illustrator whose innovative poster designs revolutionized graphic art and advertising in late 19th-century Paris. Born into an aristocratic family at Albi in southern France, Toulouse-Lautrec's privileged lineage traced back to the Counts of Toulouse and extended uninterrupted to th...