Street Singers
Medium
Etching and drypoint in warm black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 40.1 × 59.9 cm (15 13/16 × 23 5/8 in.); Sheet: 50.5 × 70.5 cm (19 15/16 × 27 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49590
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...