Summer: Cat on a Balustrade
Medium
Lithograph (brush, crayon and spatter with scraper) in pink/mauve, violet black and brown on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 48.9 × 59.7 cm (19 5/16 × 23 9/16 in.); Sheet: 50.4 × 62.8 cm (19 7/8 × 24 3/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51724
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...