The Youngest Daughter
Théophile-Alexandre Pierre Steinlen
January 1894
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 30.2 × 30.5 cm (11 15/16 × 12 1/16 in.); Sheet: 38.7 × 43.5 cm (15 1/4 × 17 3/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51603
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...