Parading through the Streets in Single File
Medium
Zincograph in black on tan wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 22.3 × 31.1 cm (8 13/16 × 12 1/4 in.); Sheet: 32.8 × 46.5 cm (12 15/16 × 18 5/16 in.)
Classification
zincograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
52820
About the Artist
Félix Edouard Vallotton · 1865–1925
Félix Edouard Vallotton (1865–1925) was a Swiss-French painter and printmaker whose deceptively spare imagery concealed a penetrating psychological acuity and a gift for formal invention. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, he moved to Paris at the age of seventeen to study at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, quickly immersing himself in the city's vital avant-garde scene. By the 1890s he had beco...