Art, literature & history
L'Aventure du Vieux Doyen (The Adventure of the Old Dean)
1891
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and black ink and lithographic crayon wtih colored crayon and touches of white gouache on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 36.5 x 27.5 cm (14 3/8 x 10 13/16 in.) image: 29.6 x 25.1 cm (11 5/8 x 9 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2009.70.220
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Théophile Steinlen. L'Aventure du Vieux Doyen (The Adventure of the Old Dean). 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,_L%27Aventure_du_Vieux_Doyen_(The_Adventure_of_the_Old_Dean),_1891,_NGA_143704.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
L'Aventure du Vieux Doyen (The Adventure of the Old Dean) — Théophile Alexandre Steinlen. 1891.
Medium: pen and black ink and lithographic crayon wtih colored crayon and touches of white gouache on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 36.5 x 27.5 cm (14 3/8 x 10 13/16 in.) image: 29.6 x 25.1 cm (11 5/8 x 9 7/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2009.70.220. 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.