Muguette
Medium
Lithograph (pen & ink and crayon) in black on cream chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 25.8 × 18.4 cm (10 3/16 × 7 1/4 in.); Primary support: 26.6 × 18.7 cm (10 1/2 × 7 3/8 in.); Secondary support: 35.7 × 27.3 cm (14 1/16 × 10 3/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49804
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...