Glory
Medium
Lithograph in black, blue and red over a fawn tint with scraping on stone on thick off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 30.4 × 41.1 cm (12 × 16 3/16 in.); Sheet: 37.5 × 53.4 cm (14 13/16 × 21 1/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
122416
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...