The Social Duty
Medium
Lithograph in red and black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image, incl remarque: 37.3 × 31 cm (14 11/16 × 12 1/4 in.); Sheet: 51.7 × 37.3 cm (20 3/8 × 14 11/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49832
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...