On the Threshold
Medium
Etching and drypoint from a zinc plate on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 20.1 × 20.4 cm (7 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.); Sheet: 41.7 × 30.6 cm (16 7/16 × 12 1/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49668
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...