Outrage in the Pas-de-Calais
Théophile-Alexandre Pierre Steinlen
December 1893
Medium
Lithograph in black on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 30.5 × 29.7 cm (12 1/16 × 11 3/4 in.); Sheet: 44.4 × 54.8 cm (17 1/2 × 21 5/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51600
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...