Serbia: Sister Anne, plate twenty from Actualités
published January 1916
Medium
Lithograph in black over fawn tint on thick off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 55.2 × 35.5 cm (21 3/4 × 14 in.); Sheet: 58.1 × 37.5 cm (22 7/8 × 14 13/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51684
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...