Woman in Profile Fixing Her Hair
June 1902
Medium
Soft ground etching and aquatint from a zinc plate in bistre (brown) on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 39.5 × 25 cm (15 9/16 × 9 7/8 in.); Sheet: 45.2 × 32.7 cm (17 13/16 × 12 7/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51530
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...