Paris, Night
Medium
Lithograph in black over a gold tint, with a stray graphite mark in margin, u.r., on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image, not incl. stray marks: 19.1 × 30.5 cm (7 9/16 × 12 1/16 in.); Image, incl. stray marks: 23.6 × 36.7 cm (9 5/16 × 14 1/2 in.); Sheet: 28.6 × 44.9 cm (11 5/16 × 17 11/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49776
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...