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Art Institute of Chicago

3,361 works

Album page with black calligraphy in a central cartouche, surrounded by painted animals including deer, gazelles and a lion a

Album Page with Calligraphic Specimen and Animal Border

Unknown artist, , late 17th century (border); c. 16th century (calligraphy)

Engraved oval Lamentation showing dead Christ held by the Virgin Mary, mourners, angels, cross and ladders in an ornate frame

Lamentation, from Passion of Christ

the Elder Jan Sadeler, 1575/1600

Etching of an elderly woman beggar in a headscarf and long cloak, holding out an alms bowl and leaning on a cane.

Woman Beggar Holding Alms, plate 20 from The Beggars

Jacques Callot, c. 1622

Etching of an old woman seated on a stool with a cat in her lap, another cat on the floor, and a basket nearby.

Old Woman with Cats, plate 25 from The Beggars

Jacques Callot, c. 1622

Engraving of eighteen nude men fighting in a battle frieze, with shields, spears and fallen warriors across the lower edge.

Battle of Eighteen Nude Men

Barthel Beham, c. 1520

Engraving of the Man of Sorrows, a nude figure with a crown of thorns and halo holding a chalice beside a stone tomb.

The Man of Sorrows

Sebald Beham, 1520

Frontispiece for Le mouvement idéaliste en peinture (The Idealistic Movement in Painting) by André Mellerio

Odilon Redon, 1896

Head of Woman With Corsage of Flowers

Odilon Redon, 1900

Etching of three men in caps in a dim interior, two seated in conversation and one standing beside a stool.

The Menu

Théodule Augustin Ribot, c. 1870

Black chalk drawing of a woman's head turned three-quarters, with curled hair and a long braid over her shoulder.

Woman's Head (recto); Sketch of Arm and Hand (verso)

Follower of Paolo Veronese

Pencil drawing of a ceremony in a classical church interior with robed priests, kneeling figure, soldiers and cherubs.

Ceremony in Church

Marie-Felice Subleyras-Tibaldi, n.d.

Etching of an elderly man sleeping with head tilted, curly hair and wrinkled face rendered in fine hatched lines.

Head of an Old Man Sleeping

Thomas Worlidge, c. 1765

Woodblock print of a man in a conical hat walking through snow past thatched houses and snow-covered bamboo.

Meng Zong (Moso), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety as a Mirror for Children (Nijushiko doji kaga…

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, c. 1843

Sketch of a nude youth seated on rock reaching toward a descending eagle, shaded in soft graphite on pale paper.

Heavenly Ganymede, from Specimens of Polyautography

Henry Fuseli, 1804 (published 1806-07)

Pen and brown ink drawing of two resting women and two dancing satyrs in a garden with a stone pedestal and trees.

Two Women Resting and Two Satyrs Dancing

Claude Gillot, c. 1700-15

Woman in Profile, Turned Right

Paula Modersohn-Becker, 1898/99

Engraving of a woman with a swaddled baby, a child holding a bowl, another child behind her, in a landscape with a tree.

The Bohemian Woman

Cornelis Visscher, c. 1656-58

Pen and brown ink study of three standing figures in cloaks and hats, two women and one man in a wide hat.

Two Studies of a Roma Woman and a Roma Boy in a Large Hat

Jacob de Gheyn II, c. 1605

Engraving of an old man with a violin-playing boy and onlookers in an arched doorway, with a tree and sky behind.

The Hurdy-Gurdy Player

Cornelis Visscher, 1648/58

Pen and wash drawing of mourners gesturing in the foreground and Christ carrying the cross up a hill in the distance.

The Virgin, the Holy Women, and Saints John, James and Joseph of Arimathea, with Christ on the Way to Calvary

Antonio Carracci, n.d.

Painted initial showing the Annunciation: an angel with a lily and Mary at a lectern under a dove, in a gold and red border.

The Annunciation in a Historiated Initial "M" from an Antiphonary

Unknown artist, 15th century

Head of Bearded Man in Three-Quarter Profile to Right

Attributed to Pietro Dandini, n.d.

Engraved ornament with a fierce bearded grotesque mask under a laurel wreath, flanked by acanthus scrollwork.

Ornament with a Mask

Sebald Beham, 1543

Engraved horizontal ornament with two winged putti riding horned chimerical beasts beside a central oval cartouche, 1544.

Ornament with Two Genii Riding Chimerical Beasts

Sebald Beham, 1544

Black chalk and white highlight drawing of four women and a child grouped together on blue-grey paper, gazing upward.

Group of Four Women and Child

After Domenichino, n.d.

Etching of a vaulted prison interior with a man stretched on a rack, winches, classical busts, and ruins.

The Man on the Rack, plate 2 from Imaginary Prisons

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1761

Black and cream woodcut print of a horse in center with a dog on a bench at right, surrounded by dense ornamental patterns.

Horse, with Other Animals and Ornaments

Paul Gauguin, 1899/1900

Seated Draped Woman in Profile

after Ludovico Carracci, n.d.

Illuminated manuscript leaf with a painted Assumption of the Virgin in a gilded border beside Gothic chant text on red staves

The Assumption of the Virgin in a Historiated Initial from a Gradual

Unknown artist, c. 1500

Black and white print of a pensive woman in a lace dress seated beside a tree, resting her head on her hand over an open book

The Commentary

Paul Gavarni, 1843