Sweepers, 1888

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink and blue colored pencil on wove paper, partially silhouetted and laid down on a glossy gillot board, partially printed in a reticulated design, with additions by the artist in pen and black ink and blue colored pencil

Dimensions

sheet: 31.5 x 19.8 cm (12 3/8 x 7 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2009.70.222

Artists / Makers

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (artist) Swiss, 1859 - 1923

Image Use

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Inscription

by artist, lower right in pen and black ink: Steinlen; by artist, lower right in blue-colored pencil: LES BALAYEURS (2); by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: [Not deciphered] / 2500 F

Provenance

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

Associated Names

McCrindle, Joseph F.

Exhibition History

1982: Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen. The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers; Milwaukee Art Museum; Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, 1982, 151, no. 178 (Phillip Dennis Cate and Susan Gill).

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).