The Republic Calls Us..., plate fifteen from Actualités
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 52.2 × 61 cm (20 9/16 × 24 1/16 in.); Sheet: 55.4 × 68.7 cm (21 13/16 × 27 1/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51696
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...