Summer: Cat on a Balustrade
Medium
Lithograph (crayon, brush and spatter with scraper) in green, yellow-orange, brown and black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image, including stray marks: 49.2 × 60.5 cm (19 3/8 × 23 7/8 in.); Sheet: 50.5 × 62.7 cm (19 15/16 × 24 11/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
12518
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...