First Little Night Piece
Medium
Aquatint from a zinc plate in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 17 × 9.8 cm (6 3/4 × 3 7/8 in.); Sheet: 31.8 × 16.9 cm (12 9/16 × 6 11/16 in.)
Classification
aquatint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49653
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...