Reclining Woman
Medium
Aquatint and soft ground etching from a zinc plate in bistre (brown) on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 11.9 × 18 cm (4 11/16 × 7 1/8 in.); Sheet: 25.4 × 32.5 cm (10 × 12 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49687
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...