Dance Hall
Medium
Photo lithograph (from a drawing) in black on gray wove chine
Dimensions
Image: 21.3 × 34.7 cm (8 7/16 × 13 11/16 in.); Sheet: 31.6 × 45 cm (12 1/2 × 17 3/4 in.)
Classification
photo lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49613
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...