Liberty's Last Refuge
Théophile-Alexandre Pierre Steinlen
July 1894
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 33.3 × 28 cm (13 1/8 × 11 1/16 in.); Sheet: 54.8 × 38.2 cm (21 5/8 × 15 1/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51678
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...