In the Dugout
Medium
Lithograph in black over a pale cream tint on thick off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 30.9 × 43.3 cm (12 3/16 × 17 1/16 in.); Sheet: 42.3 × 55.5 cm (16 11/16 × 21 7/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
133314
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...