Program for a Matinée at the Trocadéro
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper with program text, verso, in brown-red
Dimensions
Image: 29.8 × 21.7 cm (11 3/4 × 8 9/16 in.); Sheet: 32.2 × 24.1 cm (12 11/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51539
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...