The Convalescents, plate two from Actualités
Théophile-Alexandre Pierre Steinlen
1915, published May 1915
Medium
Lithograph in black over a fawn tint on thick off-white wove paper
Dimensions
240 × 224 mm (image/tint); 292 × 224(?) mm (stone); 453 × 330 mm (sheet)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51567
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...