Woman Fixing Her Nails
June 1902
Medium
Aquatint and soft ground etching from a zinc plate in brown (bistre) on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 38.1 × 22.5 cm (15 × 8 7/8 in.); Plate: 38.1 × 22.5 cm (15 × 8 7/8 in.); Sheet: 45.3 × 32.8 cm (17 7/8 × 12 15/16 in.)
Classification
aquatint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49891
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...