In Love (Amoureux)

1888

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen

Artist, Swiss, 1859 - 1923

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink and blue colored pencil on wove paper, with the figure of the man partially silhouetted, the cityscape behind him drawn in pen and black ink with graphite and scratching out on gillot paper, inserted behind the figure into a slit in the wove paper, and then glued down

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 18.8 x 21.6 cm (7 3/8 x 8 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.70.224

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1982

  • Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen. Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers; Milwukee Art Museum; and Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, 1982-1983, 77, 79, 151, no. 175, fig. 65 (Phillip Dennis Cate and Susan Gill).

Bibliography

1982

  • Cate, Phillip Dennis, and Susan Gill. Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen. Salt Lake City, 1982: 77, 79, 151, no. 176, fig. 65 (reprod.).

2012

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan, and Arthur Wheelock. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012: 178 (color).

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right in graphite: A23575; by later hand, lower right in blue pencil (faded): Réduire de [?]

Wikidata ID

Q64633129

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