The Sick Child
Medium
Soft ground etching and etching from a zinc plate on grayish-ivory China paper
Dimensions
Plate: 27.8 × 24 cm (11 × 9 1/2 in.); Sheet: 39.5 × 29.8 cm (15 9/16 × 11 3/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49704
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...