In Love (Amoureux)
Medium
pen and black ink and blue colored pencil on wove paper, with the figure of the man partially silhouetted, the cityscape behind him drawn in pen and black ink with graphite and scratching out on gillot paper, inserted behind the figure into a slit in the wove paper, and then glued down
Dimensions
sheet: 18.8 x 21.6 cm (7 3/8 x 8 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Joseph F. McCrindle Collection
Accession Number
2009.70.224
About the Artist
Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, born on November 10, 1859, in Lausanne, Switzerland, hailed from a family with artistic roots; his grandfather, Christian Gottlieb Steinlen, was a painter and draftsman. After two years studying theology at the University of Lausanne, he trained in industrial ornamental drawing in Mulhouse under Schoenhaupt and worked as a designer trainee at a textile mill. Encourage...