Young Girl Standing
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 18.6 × 9.9 cm (7 3/8 × 3 15/16 in.); Plate: 19.9 × 10.2 cm (7 7/8 × 4 1/16 in.); Sheet: 36.3 × 27.9 cm (14 5/16 × 11 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49709
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...