Two Women of the Street and Their Companions
Medium
Etching from a zinc plate on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 29.1 × 19.1 cm (11 1/2 × 7 9/16 in.); Plate: 30.2 × 20 cm (11 15/16 × 7 7/8 in.); Sheet: 43.6 × 33.8 cm (17 3/16 × 13 5/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49607
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...