1901
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
On Cats by Jacques Dalbray is a 1901 by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows cats sitting, sleeping, and prowling around columns of text. The cats seem to be part of the furniture, climbing and sleeping on the columns. This illustration was made for a French magazine, which is interesting because color illustrations were hard to reproduce back then. Check out the work of artist: Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss, 1859–1923) for more like this.
On this page from the March 30, 1901, issue of L’Illustration (Illustration), a French magazine, colorful depictions of cats surround a short text praising those animals and their place in history. The cats sit, sleep, and prowl around the columns of text, as if they are furnishings to climb and sleep on. Color illustrations were particularly difficult and expensive to reproduce before the advent of modern printing technology because each color had to be printed independently. As a result, artists like Théophile Alexandre Steinlen developed strategies to achieve the maximum effect by…
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Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (November 10, 1859 – December 13, 1923), was a Swiss-born French Art Nouveau painter and printmaker. He was politically engaged and collaborated with the anarchist and socialist press.
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