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Art Institute of Chicago

23,908 works

Painting of an autumn forest with pale tree trunks, russet foliage, a grassy path and distant hills under a grey-blue sky.

Wooded Landscape

Gustave Courbet, 1860-65

Painting of a rushing river past a mill with a water wheel, bare trees, autumn foliage and a sunlit hill.

Mill of Pont Maupuit

Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin, c. 1900

Painting of a black and white cow standing in a grassy field in front of a line of trees.

Study of a Cow

Émile van Marcke, c. 1875-90

Painting of a three-masted ship in stormy seas near rocky cliffs, with a small boat of survivors in the foreground.

Shipwreck near a Rocky Coast

Thomas Birch, 1833

Ink landscape of misty mountains, a river with two small boats, and trees and rooftops on a promontory at right.

Ink Landscape

Attributed to Kano Motonobu, 17th century

Venetian painting of the Flight into Egypt with a mother and child on a donkey, a leading figure, sheep, and a river landscap

The Flight into Egypt

Unknown artist, c. 1545

Classical landscape with draped figures in the foreground and a colossal figure carved into a mountain beside a river valley.

Mount Athos Carved as a Monument to Alexander the Great

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, 1796

Painting of a chariot race in a Roman circus with galloping horses, dust clouds, and a crowded stand of spectators.

Chariot Race

Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1876

Painting of a nude woman reclining on red cushions with her back to the viewer, beside incense smoke and a tray of oranges.

Odalisque

Jules Lefebvre, 1874

Anonymous 17th-century battle painting of armored horsemen and soldiers fighting with spears on a rocky slope under cloudy sk

David Slaying Goliath

Unknown artist, 1600-50

Painting of Adam and Eve in paradise with animals, an angel and cherubs in the sky above a landscape.

Adam and Eve in Paradise

Francesco Solimena, c. 1700

Painting of the Virgin Mary rising on clouds with four angels while apostles gather around an open tomb below.

Assumption of the Virgin

Marcellus Coffermans, 16th century

Painted panel of Saint Monica holding a crucifix and red book, gold halo and arched gold background, Italian, c. 1450-75.

Panels from the Altarpiece of The Assumption of the Virgin with Saints: Saint Monica

Italian; possibly Venice, 1450-75

Angel drives Adam and Eve from a dark stormy paradise while a serpent coils on the ground below.

The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise

Benjamin West, 1791, retouched 1803

Tibetan thangka mandala with a central deity, surrounding seated figures, and rows of Buddhas and lamas in a dark border.

Vajrapani Chitta Mandala (Sarvadurgati Parishodhana Tantra)

Unknown artist, 15th century

Painting of a standing figure in ornate fur-trimmed costume and red trousers, holding a staff against a dark background.

Mephisto from the Opera Faust

Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, 1870-86

Painting of three fish on a dark rock with green leaves and reeds in shadow behind them.

Fish

Shepard Alonzo Mount, 1842

Painting of two women carrying wicker baskets walking down a tree-lined Parisian street with a dog and a figure in black.

Two Washerwomen Crossing a Small Park in Paris

Jean-François Raffaëlli, c. 1890

Painting of a crowned woman and onlookers beside a kneeling man lifting a body near classical columns, in muted ochre and ros

Saint Helen Testing the True Cross

Tintoretto, c. 1545

Painting of nude giants and gods battling in clouds, with a warrior in blue and red in the foreground.

The Battle between the Gods and the Giants

Joachim Wtewael, c. 1608

Painting of two girls dancing in a dim room as a seated piper plays and an older woman and a boy look on.

The Dance

Pietro Longhi, c. 1750

Oil portrait of an elderly woman in a white bonnet and lace collar with a white bow, against a dark background.

Sarah Dupont

Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1777-79

Oil portrait of a young woman in a wide-brimmed feathered hat, resting her arms on a ledge against a dark background.

Portrait of a Young Woman

Arent de Gelder, c. 1690

Seated woman in black damask dress, large white ruff and lace cap, holding a white cloth against a dark background.

Portrait of a Lady

Frans Hals, 1627

Portrait of a young woman in black velvet with a lace ruff, pearl necklace, and jeweled hair ornament against a gray backgrou

Portrait of Elizabeth of Austria, Wife of King Charles IX of France

Follower of François Clouet, after 1571

Leaf of a Qur'an manuscript with angular Kufic script in brown ink and red diacritical dots on aged parchment.

Page from a Copy of The Qur'an

Iraq or Syria, 9th/10th century

Double page from a Qur'an with gold arabesque borders, blue floral ground and gold Arabic calligraphy in a central medallion.

Double Page from the Qur'an

Unknown artist, Safavid dynasty (1501-1722), 16th century

Painting of the Virgin holding the infant Christ as young John the Baptist reaches up with a reed cross before red drapery.

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Jacopo Bassano, 1560-65

Half-length portrait of a young woman in a white headdress and dark dress, holding a rolled paper against a dark background.

Portrait of a Young Woman

Joachim Beuckelaer, 1562

Illuminated Qur'an page with black Arabic calligraphy, gold rosettes, and blue and gold floral cartouches.

Page from a Copy of The Qur'an

Unknown artist, 16th/17th century