A Veteran of the Old Guard
Medium
Lithograph in black with scraping on stone over a fawn tint on thick off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 38 × 29.7 cm (15 × 11 3/4 in.); Sheet: 52.6 × 37.7 cm (20 3/4 × 14 7/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
133318
About the Artist
Théophile-Alexandre Pierre Steinlen · 1859–1923
Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, born on November 10, 1859, in Lausanne, Switzerland, grew up in an environment steeped in artistic influence, with his grandfather serving as a drawing teacher in nearby Vevey. He studied literature at the University of Lausanne before working as a designer trainee in a Mulhouse textile mill. In his early twenties, around 1881, Steinlen married Émilie Mey, and the cou...