The Return of the Sailor
Théophile-Alexandre Pierre Steinlen
June 1900
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 24.3 × 19 cm (9 5/8 × 7 1/2 in.); Sheet: 34.9 × 27.5 cm (13 3/4 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49768
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...