Legionnaire
Théophile-Alexandre Pierre Steinlen
July 3, 1915
Medium
Lithograph in red and black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 40 × 18 cm (15 3/4 × 7 1/8 in.); Sheet: 50.3 × 32.5 cm (19 13/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49835
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...