Frontal Portrait from the Waist Up of Maxime Gorki
Medium
Lithograph in red and black on grayish-ivory laid china paper
Dimensions
Image: 63.3 × 47.5 cm (24 15/16 × 18 3/4 in.); Sheet: 63.9 × 49.1 cm (25 3/16 × 19 3/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
44268
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...