The Common Man
Medium
Lithograph in black with scraping on stone on grayish wove China paper
Dimensions
Image: 31.8 × 26.3 cm (12 9/16 × 10 3/8 in.); Sheet: 44.7 × 34.2 cm (17 5/8 × 13 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49733
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...