Effect of the setting sun
February 1902
Medium
Etching, drypoint and burnishing from a zinc plate on discolored ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 20.5 × 20.4 cm (8 1/8 × 8 1/16 in.); Sheet: 30.6 × 24.8 cm (12 1/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
45819
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...