Three Working Girls Out for Lunch
Medium
Drypoint printed à la poupée in brown and green ink on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 14.9 × 22.6 cm (5 7/8 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet, max: 28 × 36.3 cm (11 1/16 × 14 5/16 in.)
Classification
drypoint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49662
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...