Young Girl with a White Collar
Medium
Etching and drypoint from a zinc plate in black on blue-green laid paper (accounting paper from a book)
Dimensions
Image/plate: 29 × 14.3 cm (11 7/16 × 5 11/16 in.); Sheet: 36.5 × 25 cm (14 3/8 × 9 7/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49656
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...