Reclining Cat Stretched Out from Left to Right
February 1903
Medium
Aquatint and softground etching from a zinc plate in noir bistre (dark brown) on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 11.9 × 23.5 cm (4 11/16 × 9 5/16 in.); Sheet: 25 × 32.8 cm (9 7/8 × 12 15/16 in.)
Classification
aquatint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51537
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...