Evacuees from Verdun, plate thirty from Actualités
published May 1916
Medium
Lithograph in dark brown on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image without remarque: 24.5 × 38 cm (9 11/16 × 15 in.); Image with remarque: 30.2 × 39.4 cm (11 15/16 × 15 9/16 in.); Sheet: 37.9 × 56.6 cm (14 15/16 × 22 5/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51681
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...