Verdunois at the Gare de l'Est Station
Medium
Lithograph in black over a fawn tint on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 37.8 × 33.8 cm (14 15/16 × 13 5/16 in.); Sheet: 52 × 38.4 cm (20 1/2 × 15 1/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
133320
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...