Seated Woman Wiping Her Feet
Medium
Aquatint and softground 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: 25.1 × 32.7 cm (9 15/16 × 12 7/8 in.)
Classification
aquatint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51534
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...