Steinlen, Frontal View, Head to the Right
Théophile-Alexandre Pierre Steinlen
February 1905
Medium
Lithograph in black on gray wove China paper
Dimensions
Image: 31.4 × 22.9 cm (12 3/8 × 9 1/16 in.); Sheet: 45.3 × 34.8 cm (17 7/8 × 13 3/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49781
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...