The Declaration
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 26.1 × 18 cm (10 5/16 × 7 1/8 in.); Primary support: 27.2 × 17 cm (10 3/4 × 6 3/4 in.); Secondary support: 35.6 × 27.4 cm (14 1/16 × 10 13/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49883
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...