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Cat Lying on the Floor (Translation)
Chat sur le Plancher (Primary Title)

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

1902
French
Prints
Works On Paper
Soft ground etching, drypoint, and aquatint on zinc printed in black brown ink on laid paper.
European Art
Sheet: 12 × 16 1/8 in. (30.48 × 40.96 cm)
Plate: 5 7/8 × 10 in. (14.92 × 25.4 cm)
2017.384
Not on view
Steinlen was intimately involved with the circle of the Chat Noir (Black Cat) café, which included Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Like Lautrec, Steinlen is well known for his illustrations and posters, many of which also have social themes. This aquatint shows Steinlen in a more private mode, perceptively observing a domestic cat enjoying its own dark luxuriance.
Signed in graphite at lower right plate line: "Steinlen"
Inscribed in graphite at lower center edge, recto: "132.V" [?]. Inscribed in graphite at lower left corner verso: "93246".
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

A Celebration of Print: 500 Years of Graphic Art from the Frank Raysor Collection
VMFA, 29 January - 22 May 2011
E. de Crauzat, "L'Oeuvre Gravé et Lithographié de Steinlen", Paris: Société de Propagation des Livres d'Art, 1913.

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