Steinlen Sculpting a Cat
Photo by Agence Meurisse
Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923, Swiss) was an Art Nouveau printmaker, illustrator, painter and sculptor best known for his prolific portfolio of cat depictions. Steinlen had a love of art from an early age and attended art school in his native Lausanne. In 1881, he moved to Paris. Living in Montmartre allowed him to meet the leading artists and writers of the day who often frequented the club Chat Noir. In Paris he began to illustrate various magazines and books by Guy de Maupassant and Anatole Frances.
Steinlen’s fondness for cats is documented back to his early school days when he drew them in the margins of his school books. In Paris, his home on the Rue Caulaincourt was well known by the neighborhood cats. During his first years in Paris, it is said that he drew cats and sold the sketches for food. Several books have been published of his cat illustrations, drawings and paintings. Steinlen’s cats are elegant and sophisticated, not cute and mischievous, as they were depicted by so many other 19th and early 20th century artists.
Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen is buried in Cimetière Saint-Vincent, Montmartre.
Enjoy below the most comprehensive collection of Steinlen’s cat paintings, drawings/sketches, posters and statues.
Black and White Cats
Black Cat
Blue Cat
Cat on a Blanket
Cat on a Sofa
Cat Sleeping on Floor
Cats and Moon
Chat au Clair de Lune, c. 1900
Chat dormant
Colette with Two Cats
Dans La Cuisine
Les Trois Chats
Mere Chatte
Reclining Cat Stretched Out from Left to Right, 1903
Sleeping cat in a chair
Cat on a Chair 1900-02
Sleeping Cats 1915
Chat et Chatte
Deux chats
Sleeping cat
The blue cat
Cats 1900-
Sitting Black Cat
Two Cats on a Pillow
Wary Cat
Black and Siamese Cats
Black Cat Stretched Out
Cat Arching Its Back, 1898
Cat Cleaning Itself, 1902
Cat Looking Forward
Cat Looking Up
Cat on its Back
Cat Sleeping on a Chair
Cat
Cats
Cats Sleeping in the Studio April 1922
Chats, 1896
Man and Woman and Two Cats Sleeping
Petit Chat Siamois, 1914
Seated Cat
Sketch for Steinlen logo
Final Logo
Sleeping cats
Study of a Cat’s Head
Study of cats — Fritz et Chiffon
Tabby Cat Sleeping
Study of a Cat Walking to the Right
Footer
Two cats
Black Cat
La-têtée-Nursing-Time, 1920
Three cat study
Two Cats on a Cushion, 1914
Two Cats
Two Siamese Cats Sleeping, 1920
Study of a Cat Resting on a Pillow 1919
Cat Sketch with Face in Background
Cat Sketch
Cat Sketches
Cat Walking
Cats Sitting
Chatte Tricolore Allongee
Deux Chats Endormis
Etude des Chats
Etude des Chats
Etude des Chats2,
Etude des Chats3
Le Chat Enerve
Mother and Kitten
Seated Cat
Siamese Cats
Sketches of Cats
Sleeping Cat
Standing Tabby Cat
Study of a Cat
Study of Siamese Cats Sleeping
Siamese Cats
Study of a cat walking
Three Cat Sketches
Two Cats Sketch
Two Cats Sleeping
Two Seated Cats
Two Siamese
1894
1898
1897
Gaudeamus ,1890
Black Cat Poster
Chat Noir Poster
Detail, Le Chat Noir Poster
Chocolate Poster
Detail, Vet Poster
Angora Cat Statue
Angora Cat Statue 2
Cat Head Statue
Cat Looking Down Statue
Cat Lying Down Statue
Chat Angora Statue
La Sieste du Chat
Petit Chat Couchant Statue
Reclining cat Statue
Seated Cat Statue
Sitting Cat Statue
Standing Cat Statue
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