Riders on the Metro, c. 1890

Not on View

Medium

black crayon on textured wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 26.5 x 39.7 cm (10 7/16 x 15 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2009.70.221

Artists / Makers

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (artist) Swiss, 1859 - 1923

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand on hinge, upper right verso in graphite: 15 (in circle); by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: sf93 / 3000 F 1/3/2

Provenance

(P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London, by 1959); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1959; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

McCrindle, Joseph F.

Bibliography

2012: Grasselli, Margaret M., and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 177 (color).