Les Pauv' P'tits Fieux
Medium
Lithograph in black with stenciled colors (green, green-blue, blue, brown, fawn and brown-gray) on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image, incl. title: 25.2 × 16.5 cm (9 15/16 × 6 1/2 in.); Sheet: 27.7 × 17.5 cm (10 15/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49795
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...