Good Taste
published September 15, 1895
Medium
Photorelief print in red and black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 27.1 × 23.1 cm (10 11/16 × 9 1/8 in.); Sheet: 42.6 × 31 cm (16 13/16 × 12 1/4 in.)
Classification
photorelief
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49848
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...