Veuves d'un Louis, plate seven from Actualités
Medium
Lithograph in black over a fawn tint with scraping on stone on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 41 × 31.2 cm (16 3/16 × 12 5/16 in.); Sheet: 54.4 × 37.9 cm (21 7/16 × 14 15/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
133317
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...