Asche
Medium
Lithograph in black, gray, brown, orange and yellow on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image, not incl. registration marks: 20.8 × 26.7 cm (8 1/4 × 10 9/16 in.); Sheet: 22.6 × 28.2 cm (8 15/16 × 11 1/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49724
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...