Tramp Passing Through a Sleeping Village
Medium
Soft ground etching, aquatint and etching in grayish blue-black (noir bleuté) on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 35.3 × 50.5 cm (13 15/16 × 19 15/16 in.); Sheet: 44.2 × 61.4 cm (17 7/16 × 24 3/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49587
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...