La Traite des Blanches
Medium
Lithograph in olive, red, yellow and black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image, incl registration marks; sheet cut within image at right margin: 79.5 × 57.6 cm (31 5/16 × 22 11/16 in.); Sheet: 80.4 × 60 cm (31 11/16 × 23 5/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
79731
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...