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Art Institute of Chicago

3,361 works

Pale watercolor design of a tall monument with winged Victory, cherubs, a column with anchor, and allegorical figures and ani

Design for a Monument to Sailors

the younger John Bacon, n.d.

Serpent Women Around Globe

Edward Burne-Jones, n.d.

Engraving of a cluttered kitchen with an old woman cooking, an old man playing a pipe, a child, and a cat.

The Pancake Woman

Cornelis Visscher, c. 1649-58

Seated Woman in Profile

R.A. Richard Cosway, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing of a woman in a classical gown seated in a Roman-style chair, with a footstool and hatched shading.

Woman Seated in Roman Chair

John Downman, c. 1770-1800

Ink and wash drawing of a standing woman in drapery looking up and a seated bearded man with his head bowed in distress.

Man and Woman in Attitudes of Distress

Henry Tresham or after, n.d.

Pen and brown wash drawing of four draped mourning women standing side by side, hands raised to their heads.

Design for a Funerary Monument: Four Draped Mourning Female Figures

John Michael Rysbrack, n.d.

Pen and brown ink drawing of a seated female figure in classical drapery holding a scroll, with architectural sketch lines.

Fortitude: Unexecuted Design for the Monument to the First Duke of Marlborough

John Michael Rysbrack, c. 1733

White chalk sketch on blue paper of two men lifting a boulder over a prostrate man near a column.

Two Men Holding Boulder over Prostrate Man with Manacles

Possibly after Victor Honoré Janssens, n.d.

Bust of Woman in Profile to Left

Godfrey Kneller

Sepia wash drawing of two men conversing near a tree, with two women and resting figures in a landscape.

Gypsy Women and Young Men in Landscape

Possibly Guillaume Pierre Marcillat, n.d.

Pen and brown ink sketch sheet with several male nude figure studies, a small animal, and ornamental designs.

Sketches of Male Nudes, Animals, and Ornamental Details

After Polidoro Caldara, called Polidoro da Caravaggio, n.d.

Pen and brown wash drawing of two men in 18th-century coats conversing, one seen from behind in a tricorn hat.

Two Gentlemen Conversing

Style of or after Pier Leone Ghezzi, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of a woman's head bowed with lowered eyes, framed by loosely sketched drapery on cream paper.

Woman's Head

Bernardino Poccetti, n.d.

Brown ink drawing of a draped woman turning left beside a male nude holding a curved trumpet.

Woman Turning Left; Male Nude Blowing Trumpet

After Polidoro Caldara, called Polidoro da Caravaggio, n.d.

Pencil landscape drawing of a tall tree with a man and cows in a field and distant hills.

Landscape with Tree, Man, and Cows

Attributed to Sir George Howland Beaumont, August 7, 1765

Pen and ink drawing of a standing woman in classical drapery holding a theatre mask.

Melpomene

Possibly after Polidoro Caldara, called Polidoro da Caravaggio, n.d.

Sepia drawing of hunters in a rowboat firing at walruses on an ice floe, with sailing ships on the horizon.

Walrus Hunt

Elizabeth Fitzgerald, 1801

Loose ink sketch of two women, one leaning over a ledge with foliage, the other beside a grapevine, on pale paper.

Woman with Grapevine, 3rd variant

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1904

Black and white chalk drawing of an old bearded man with wild wavy hair and long beard, gazing forward on grey paper.

Bust of Old Bearded Man

Style of or after Antonio Cavallucci, n.d.

Loose watercolor of three men in wide-brimmed hats carrying coiled rope over their shoulders against a pale background.

Workmen at Carrara

John Singer Sargent, 1911

Watercolor of a columned stone terrace with a shadowed balustrade and green garden foliage beyond.

Tarragona Terrace and Garden

John Singer Sargent, c. 1908

Etching of three women in headscarves seated on grass, one with a basket beside her, signed Orlik 1905.

Three Women

Emil Orlik, 1905

Lithograph of a hunched seated man with crossed legs, drawn in loose black crayon strokes on pale paper.

Seated Man

Edvard Munch, 1912-14

Pencil and colored pencil sketch of a seated woman in a large hat with her face hidden, hands folded in her lap.

Seated Woman from the Front with Hat, Face Hooded

Gustav Klimt, 1910

Etching of the Shaftesbury fountain with winged figure at Piccadilly Circus, London, with pedestrians and a large building be

Gilbert's Monument, Piccadilly Circus

Joseph Pennell, 1903

Etching of an older woman in a long dress tending to a seated, unclothed child who rests a foot on a stool.

Grandmother and Child

Suzanne Valadon, 1908

Pencil drawing of a veiled woman kneeling by a rocky hill under a leaning bare tree, with a distant town and birds.

Woman Kneeling

Odilon Redon, c. 1868

Etching of Christ consoling weeping women with a child beside him while carrying the cross past a crowd and a soldier.

Christ Consoles the Weeping Women, plate eight from Stations of the Cross

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, c. 1748, published 1749

Etching of Christ stripped of garments beside a tall cross, with figures in the foreground, labeled Stazione X.

Christ is Stripped of His Garments, plate ten from Stations of the Cross

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, c. 1748, published 1749