Chansons de femmes, cover for a book by Paul Delmet
Medium
Lithograph in three colors (black, pale green and gold [or red, see remarks]) on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 31.7 × 43.2 cm (12 1/2 × 17 1/16 in.); Sheet: 43.4 × 54.9 cm (17 1/8 × 21 5/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49736
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...