Art, literature & history
Sweepers
1888
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and black ink and blue colored pencil on wove paper, partially silhouetted and laid down on a glossy gillot board, partially printed in a reticulated design, with additions by the artist in pen and black ink and blue colored pencil
- Dimensions
- sheet: 31.5 x 19.8 cm (12 3/8 x 7 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2009.70.222
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Théophile Steinlen. Sweepers. 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,_Sweepers,_1888,_NGA_143706.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Sweepers — Théophile Alexandre Steinlen. 1888.
Medium: pen and black ink and blue colored pencil on wove paper, partially silhouetted and laid down on a glossy gillot board, partially printed in a reticulated design, with additions by the artist in pen and black ink and blue colored pencil.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 31.5 x 19.8 cm (12 3/8 x 7 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2009.70.222. 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.