Art, literature & history
In Love (Amoureux)
1888
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and black ink and blue colored pencil on wove paper, with the figure of the man partially silhouetted, the cityscape behind him drawn in pen and black ink with graphite and scratching out on gillot paper, inserted behind the figure into a slit in the wove paper, and then glued down
- Dimensions
- sheet: 18.8 x 21.6 cm (7 3/8 x 8 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2009.70.224
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Théophile Steinlen. In Love (Amoureux). Théophile Alexandre Steinlen; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Th%C3%A9ophile_Alexandre_Steinlen,_In_Love_(Amoureux),_1888,_NGA_143708.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
In Love (Amoureux) — Théophile Alexandre Steinlen. 1888.
Medium: pen and black ink and blue colored pencil on wove paper, with the figure of the man partially silhouetted, the cityscape behind him drawn in pen and black ink with graphite and scratching out on gillot paper, inserted behind the figure into a slit in the wove paper, and then glued down.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 18.8 x 21.6 cm (7 3/8 x 8 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2009.70.224. Joseph F. McCrindle Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.