The Bride
Medium
Drawing with scraping, hand-coloring in watercolor/gouache and black ink with graphite additions on white Gillot paper (papier Gillot: a white coated paper covered with a very fine pattern of black horizontal stripes and ridges used to produce a Gillotage) laid down on ivory board
Dimensions
Image: 28.2 × 24 cm (11 1/8 × 9 1/2 in.); Sheet: 29.3 × 24.6 cm (11 9/16 × 9 11/16 in.); Board: 29.8 × 24.7 cm (11 3/4 × 9 3/4 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49885
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...