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
Rights
Public Domain
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...