Le Petit Potach
published August 18, 1893
Medium
Photorelief print in red and black with letterpress music/lyrics on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 34.4 × 22.7 cm (13 9/16 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet: 42.2 × 30.9 cm (16 5/8 × 12 3/16 in.)
Classification
photorelief
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49869
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...