Two Women
Medium
Aquatint and drypoint from a zinc plate on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 39.7 × 27.2 cm (15 11/16 × 10 3/4 in.); Sheet: 55.3 × 36.2 cm (21 13/16 × 14 5/16 in.)
Classification
aquatint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49574
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...