Laundresses Carrying Back Their Work
Medium
Aquatint and drypoint, from a zinc plate, in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 34.9 × 25.9 cm (13 3/4 × 10 1/4 in.); Plate: 36.1 × 27 cm (14 1/4 × 10 11/16 in.); Sheet: 44.3 × 30.6 cm (17 1/2 × 12 1/16 in.)
Classification
aquatint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
6039
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...