Housewife and Children Returning from the Laundry House
Medium
Soft ground etching and aquatint from a zinc plate printed à la poupée in dark brown, warm brown, tan and green on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 36.1 × 26.8 cm (14 1/4 × 10 9/16 in.); Plate: 36.1 × 26.8 cm (14 1/4 × 10 9/16 in.); Sheet: 52.1 × 36.7 cm (20 9/16 × 14 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49659
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...