Théophile Steinlen Prints
1859–1923 · Swiss-French · Belle Époque
Wall art by Théophile Steinlen, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
30 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About Théophile Steinlen
Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen was born in Lausanne in November 1859, studied briefly at the university there and worked as a textile designer in Mulhouse before moving to Paris in 1881. He settled in Montmartre, where the cabaret Le Chat Noir and its paper gave him his first work, and for forty years he drew the life of the quarter: workers, laundresses, street children, the poor of the boulevards, and the cats that filled his house, which he drew with such affection that they became his signature. His posters of the 1890s, the Chat Noir tour, the Vingeanne milk with his daughter Colette and three cats, the Comiot motor tricycle scattering geese, the huge street scene La Rue printed in six sheets for his printer Charles Verneau, are among the most reproduced images of the Belle Époque. He drew for the satirical and socialist press, Le Rire, Gil Blas, L'Assiette au beurre, and during the war of 1914 for the soldiers and refugees. He became a French citizen in 1901 and died in Paris in December 1923.