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Art Institute of Chicago

781 works

Japanese woodblock print of a woman tending a sleeping child, with ghostly figures floating in a cloud above.

Child's nightmare of ghosts

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1800/01

Watercolor of a young girl with a crop and cricket bat beside a stone balustrade and flowering urn.

Young Girl with Crop and Cricket Bat

Elizabeth Murray, n.d.

Hand-colored print of three toddlers crawling and playing in a round frame, with a calligraphy scroll above.

Three Chinese Children

Unknown artist, 1790-1810

Red chalk drawing of dense trees and foliage with two small children beneath the branches, by Fragonard, 1760.

Arbor with Two Children (Le Nid d'Armour)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1760

Watercolor portrait head of a young girl with curled blonde hair on a cream sheet, shoulders faintly sketched.

Portrait Head of a Young Girl

Elizabeth Murray, n.d.

Engraved plate with three putti above and a seated child beside an urn and grapes below, labelled Dessein, Enfans.

Design: Children, from Encyclopédie

Benoît-Louis Prévost, 1762/77

Engraved portrait of a boy with tousled hair holding a dog against his shoulder, both gazing toward the viewer.

A Boy with a Dog

Giovanni Marco Pitteri, 1750/59

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a blond child asleep on pillows under a light blanket, signed and dated 1847.

Child Asleep (recto), and Fishermen on Dock (verso)

Elizabeth Murray, 1847

Charcoal study of a young woman in a headscarf leaning against a pillar, looking over her shoulder.

Study of a Peasant Girl

Camille Roqueplan, n.d.

Monochrome print of a curly-haired boy seated on a rock, embracing a dog beside him in a wooded setting.

Boy with a Dog

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, c. 1822

Bust Portrait of Child

Elizabeth Murray, n.d.

Two small engraved allegorical scenes on one sheet: putti beneath a star arc, and a child beside a lily under sunburst clouds

Child with Rosebud

Philipp Otto Runge, n.d.

Pastel portrait of a young boy with curly hair and blue eyes, wearing a brown jacket and blue waistcoat.

Portrait of a Young Boy with Blue Eyes

Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, c. 1750

Watercolor of a river curving past houses and hills, with a sailboat, rowboats, and a donkey with figures in the foreground.

On the Rhine (recto), and Mother and Child (verso)

Elizabeth Murray, 1841

Pen and brown wash drawing of the Virgin seated before shuttered window, holding infant Christ on her lap, on blue paper.

Virgin and Child

After Giovanni Bellini, n.d.

Lithograph of a girl in a hat beside a donkey carrying a wooden cask on a rocky mountain path with fir trees.

Girl with Donkey Bearing Pack, in Mountain Landscape

Albrecht Adam, n.d.

Hand-colored print of St. Nicholas with a sack and evergreen branch, surrounded by cheering children and a donkey.

St. Nicolas Surrounded by Children

Theodor Mintrop, Date unknown

Engraving of a shepherd boy with a staff and dog beside a flock of sheep on a path, with trees and a farmhouse behind.

Arcadian Shepherd Boy and His Flock of Sheep

Heinrich Reinhold, 1810

Pastel portrait of a sleeping young woman with blue flowers in her hair, resting on teal fabric.

Sleeping Girl

Pietro Rotari, c. 1750

Pencil sketch of a female figure in a swirling dance pose with billowing drapery on cream paper.

The Dancing Girl

James McNeill Whistler, 1889

Pen and ink drawing of the seated Virgin holding the infant Christ, both with haloes, on toned paper.

Virgin and Child (recto); Putti (verso)

Florentine or Vicentine, n.d.

Pen and ink sketch of an angel above a Nativity scene with Virgin, infant Christ, ox, donkey and an elderly man.

Nativity (recto); Virgin and Child, Angel (verso)

Attributed to Filippo Bellini, or his circle, 1570/1603

Pencil and colour sketch of a seated woman in a wide-brimmed hat with a red collar beside a child in a frilled dress.

Lady and Child

James McNeill Whistler, 1892

Mary Cassatt print of a mother in a floral dress kissing a nude infant held on her lap against a pale blue background.

After the Bath

Mary Cassatt, 1890-91

Etching of a seated boy in a dark waistcoat, head bowed, one arm resting on a chair, against a hatched background.

Seated Boy

Charles Émile Jacque, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a standing young woman in flowing robes with a hair ornament, on pale paper.

The Girl

James McNeill Whistler, probably 1891, printed posthumously

Color print of a woman in a yellow floral dress testing bath water while a nude toddler stands beside her.

The Bath

Mary Cassatt, 1890-91

Etching of a peasant family in a dim cottage interior, with a seated father holding a child and a woman by the hearth.

A Father and his Family

Charles Émile Jacque, 1844

Loose ink sketch of a mother holding a child in her arms, draped figures on cream paper.

Mother and Child, No. 3

James McNeill Whistler, 1891, printed 1895

Woodblock print of a woman with a gold-pinned hairstyle carrying a child in a red floral kimono, with a fabric roll above.

Mother and Child, from the series "New Patterns dyed in Five Colors (Shingata goshiki zome)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1803