National Holiday
Théophile-Alexandre Pierre Steinlen
July 1894
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 29.9 × 30.6 cm (11 13/16 × 12 1/16 in.); Sheet: 55 × 38.3 cm (21 11/16 × 15 1/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51675
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...