Evacuees
September 1915
Medium
Etching, aquatint and drypoint in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 23.9 × 15.3 cm (9 7/16 × 6 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.1 × 21.3 cm (12 11/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49838
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...