The House on the Edge of the Village
Medium
Soft ground etching, drypoint and aquatint from two plates printed in 6 colors (green, brown, red-pink, blue, ochre and black) on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 18.9 × 30.7 cm (7 1/2 × 12 1/8 in.); Sheet: 30.8 × 44.1 cm (12 3/16 × 17 3/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49679
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...