The Tramp
Medium
Lithograph in greenish-yellow ochre on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 54.5 × 50.1 cm (21 1/2 × 19 3/4 in.); Sheet, max: 69.3 × 50.1 cm (27 5/16 × 19 3/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51739
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...