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Art Institute of Chicago

669 works

Watercolor of a decaying hollow tree with a long limb over a woodland path, autumn leaves and ferns at its base.

Rotting Tree

Elizabeth Murray, 1850

Grey wash drawing of a formal garden with tall trees, clipped hedges, classical statues on pedestals, and a fountain.

View of the Park at Versailles: Trees and Statuary

Pierre Antoine Mongin, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a wooded landscape with dense trees, an open lawn, and a distant hill under a pale sky.

Wooded Landscape

Joseph Wright of Derby, 1754/97

Pencil sketch of a woodsman raising an axe beside a fallen tree trunk on sloping ground.

Woodsman Axing Fallen Tree

William Henry Pyne, .d.

Brown wash drawing of a timber-framed blacksmith's shop on a village street with figures and a large tree at left.

Blacksmith's Shop at Guildford (recto); Sketch of Two Tree Trunks (verso)

George Wallwyn Shepheard, n.d.

Etching of a woman in a long dress reaching up to pick apples from a tree beside a cottage and well.

The Apple Tree

Willem Witsen, c. 1885

Hand-colored print of the world tree Yggdrasill with a serpent around a central island, a rainbow, and roots among serpents.

Yggdrasill, the Mundane Tree

George Baxter, 1847

Etched landscape with a large tree, a group of figures resting at its base, a winding path, and a distant tower under cloudy

Wooded Landscape with Gypsies Gathered Round a Fire

Thomas Gainsborough, 1753/54

Engraving of a mounted spearman above a group of men carrying a body, with dogs and a torch-bearer, in an arched frame.

Hagen Leaves Siegfried's Body to be Carried Home from the Forest

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, n.d.

Etching of a tall fir tree beside a waterfall, with a hunter and dog on rocks and wooded cliffs behind.

Fir Tree

Jacob Philipp Hackert, 1801/02

Pencil study of tree trunks and branches with a faint horizon, by Georges Seurat, 1884.

Trees (study for La Grande Jatte)

Georges Seurat, 1884

Two hikers cross a mountain stream on a fallen tree trunk beneath dense forest and rocky peaks, in a hatched line print.

Hiker Crossing Over a Mountain Stream on a Tree Trunk with a Woman

Janus Genelli, 1804

Etching of a farmhouse with smoking chimney beside tall evergreen trees and a grassy meadow with a pond.

Farmhouse in an Evergreen Forest

Johan Christian Dahl, 1828

Engraving of a large weeping willow with a classical pedestal and seated figure beside cypress trees and woodland.

Weeping Willow

Jacob Philipp Hackert, 1802

Etching of a seated wanderer beneath a large tree, with a ruined building and grazing animals in the distance.

Wanderer Resting in the Forest

Martin von Molitor, n.d.

Engraving of a fisherman beside a river under large oak trees, with a stone bridge and village in the distance.

Fisherman in Wooded Landscape

the elder Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, n.d.

Lithograph of a man playing guitar below a balcony where a woman looks down, under a moonlit sky.

Meet Me by the Linden Tree

Pendleton's Lithography, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a river landscape with large trees, an arched stone bridge, cattle, and small figures.

A Wooded River Landscape with Jacob, Laban, and His Daughters

Claude Lorrain, 1661

Grey-toned drawing of a wooded landscape with tall trees on a grassy bank above a shallow stream with reeds.

Wooded Landscape with Stream

Thomas Gainsborough, 1750-59

Watercolor study of a tree in pink and white blossom in a grassy field, with a dark hedgerow and blue sky behind.

Study of a Tree in Bloom

William Turner, c. 1835

Black-and-white engraving of a wooded mountain landscape with a waterfall, footbridge, rocky cliffs and a large tree.

Wooded Mountain Landscape with a Small Waterfall and Pathway

Franz Joseph Leopold, 1805

Etching of a forest path with a large oak, a fallen tree trunk, and two figures carrying bundles at the lower left.

The Fallen Tree Trunk

Martin von Molitor, n.d.

Engraving of a spotted leopard resting beneath a large tree, looking toward a distant landscape with mountains.

A Tyger (A Recumbent Leopard by a Tree)

George Stubbs, May 1, 1788

Black and white lithograph of workers clearing a tropical forest, with felled logs, a rider on horseback, and a wooden house.

Clearing the Forest, plate 6 from Customs and traditions of Negroes, volume 4 of Voyage pittoresque dans le Brésil

Isidore Laurent Deroy, 1835

Etching of three sheep resting and grazing beneath five leafless trees in an open pastoral landscape.

Sheep and Five Trees

Charles Émile Jacque, 1868

Woodblock print of pale foxes with flickering tail fires gathered under a bare tree at night in a snowy field.

Fox Fires on New Year's Eve at the Changing Tree in Oji (Oji shozoku enoki omisoka no kitsunebi), from the series "On…

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

Etching of a cow lying on grass beside a tree, head turned toward the viewer, with fine hatched lines.

Cow Lying Beside a Tree, plate 7 from Eight Bulls and Cows

Paulus Potter, c. 1640-54

Japanese woodblock print of a standing man and woman in kimono beneath a leafy branch, by Torii Kiyonaga.

Couple Under a Tree

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1781

Etching of a seated woman with long hair beside a standing attendant in an arched interior with drapery and a column.

The Willow Song, plate nine from Othello

Théodore Chassériau, 1844

Monochrome print of snowy pine trees, rocks and a chamois on a slope, with misty mountains rising behind.

Pine Trees in the Mountains

John Robert Cozens, 1789