L'Assommoir (The Drinking Den) Artist: Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (French, born Switzerland, 1859–1923)

1900

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Color lithograph

Dimensions

sheet: 76 × 54 1/8 in. (193 × 137.4 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the Rubin-Ladd Foundation under the bequest of Ester R. Portnow

Accession Number

2015.113.3

Geography

Made in Switzerland

Culture

Swiss

Period

19th century

Classification

Prints

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Nathan Rubin - Ida Ladd Family Foundation Collection
Bibliography
  • Réjane Bargiel, Steinlen Plakate (Lausanne, Switzerland: Wasmuth, 1987), 66, no. 40
  • Phillip Dennis Cate and Susan GIll, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (Salt Lake City, Utah: Gibbs M. Smith Inc., 1982), 76, no. 86, fig. 10
  • Ernest de Crauzat, L' Œvre Gravé et Lithographié de Steinlen (Paris: Société de Propogation des Livres D'Art, 1913), 137, no. 508
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

daily life, human figures (visual works), interior, lithographs

Subject

alcoholic beverages chairs couples tables (support furniture)

Marks

Printers chopmark, LL corner

Inscriptions

LR corner running up margin in stone: IMP. CHARLE VERNEAU Rue Oberkampf - PARIS

Signed

LR corner in stone: steinlen

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