Truth and the Two Soldiers
Medium
Lithograph in black, with scraping on stone, on cream wove paper (paper appears laid but is machine-made wove)
Dimensions
Image: 24 × 31 cm (9 1/2 × 12 1/4 in.); Sheet: 27.2 × 43.2 cm (10 3/4 × 17 1/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49718
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...