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Summer: Cat on a Balustrade (Translation)
L'été chat sur une balustrade (Primary Title)

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, French, born Switzerland, 1859 - 1923 (Artist)

1909
French
Prints
Works On Paper
Color lithograph on wove paper
European Art
Sheet: 19 5/16 × 23 1/2 in. (49.05 × 59.69 cm)
Image: 19 5/16 × 23 1/2 in. (49.05 × 59.69 cm)
Mat: 28 × 34 in. (71.12 × 86.36 cm)
2017.372
G360B - Lewis Decorative Arts Galleries

Artist and political activist Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen moved to Montmartre, Paris, with his wife in 1881, where their home was quickly nicknamed the “Cat’s Cottage.” A member of the Society for the Protection of Animals, Steinlen often featured neighborhood cats in his compositions. Steinlen originally designed L’Hiver, chat sur un coussin to advertise for the 1909 Exposition des Artistes Animaliers at the Cercle International des Arts. It was so well received that he later printed the piece as a decorative panel with L’eté, chat sur une balustrade as an accompanying design.

Signed in the image at left on baluster: "Steinlen"
Steinlen monogram in image at upper left corner.
Inscribed in graphite at lower right corner, verso: "Chat sur une balustrade".
The Maxine Hornung Collection, Gift of Frank Raysor
Steinlen: Cats, William King Museum of Art, Abingdon, VA, October 4, 2018 - January 1, 2019; Museum of Shenandoah Vallery, Winchester, VA, May 2 - September 1, 2019

Steinlen: Cats, VMFA, November 17, 2017 - March 4, 2018
E. de Crauzat, "L'Oeuvre Gravé et Lithographié de Steinlen", Paris: Société de Propagation des Livres d'Art, 1913.

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