Les Petiots
published October 27, 1893
Medium
Photorelief print in red and black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 32.4 × 22.5 cm (12 13/16 × 8 7/8 in.); Sheet: 41.9 × 30.8 cm (16 1/2 × 12 3/16 in.)
Classification
photorelief
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49874
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...