On the Beach
Medium
Lithograph in 5 colors (yellow ochre, brown, red, orange and blue) on grayish-ivory wove chine
Dimensions
Image: 30.1 × 58 cm (11 7/8 × 22 7/8 in.); Sheet: 50.6 × 65 cm (19 15/16 × 25 5/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51736
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...