C'est ici, chez nous!

1916

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen

Associated Names
Théophile Alexandre Steinlen

Artist, Swiss, 1859 - 1923

The image is a pencil sketch of a woman and two children. The woman stands holding a large sack over her shoulder. She wears a headscarf and a long dress. Beside her is a young boy wearing a flat cap and holding a sack, and on the other side is a smaller child holding a case. In the background are sketchy outlines of an architectural structure resembling ruins, with trees and distant figures.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 38.2 x 39.8 cm (15 1/16 x 15 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8049

Artwork history & notes

Inscriptions

lower right: Steinlen / 1917; lower right below image: c'est ici, chez-nous!; in later hand, across bottom: c[?] 73 C.3H + 115 tres [?] filets plus force; on verso stamped: [?] PARIS CENTRALE

Wikidata ID

Q64633108

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