Refugees from the Meuse
Medium
Lithograph in black over fawn tint on thick off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 34.9 × 51 cm (13 3/4 × 20 1/8 in.); Sheet: 36.5 × 53.9 cm (14 3/8 × 21 1/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51687
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...