Les Pauv' P'tits Fieux
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 23.6 × 16.2 cm (9 5/16 × 6 7/16 in.); Sheet: 27.9 × 17.4 cm (11 × 6 7/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49797
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...