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Art Institute of Chicago

13,165 works

Engraving of a man with a sword and a woman in a headscarf beside a dog, with mountains, a cart and a tree behind them.

The Governor of Schopfheim (Der Statthalter von Schopfheim), plate seven from the series Poems in the Dialect of the…

Sophie Reinhard, 1820

Etching of a saddled mule with a feed net on its head, standing on a dirt path with a village on the horizon.

Feeding Mule - Front, from Die Zweite Thierfolge

Johann Christian Reinhart, 1800

Etching of a mule seen from behind, wearing saddle and harness, with a feed bag, on a path with hills in the distance.

Feeding Mule - Rear, from Die Zweite Thierfolge

Johann Christian Reinhart, 1800

Head of a Buffalo, from Die Zweite Thierfolge

Johann Christian Reinhart, 1800

Etching of a young bull's head facing forward, with curly forehead hair, short horns, and fine hatched shading on neck and mu

Head of a Young Bull, from Die Zweite Thierfolge

Johann Christian Reinhart, 1803

Etching of a Roman triumphal arch in ruins with figures in the foreground and overgrown trees on the right.

The Triumphal Arch, plate eight from Les Soirées de Rome

Hubert Robert, 1763/64

Etching of a pyramid and carved sarcophagus with two standing men and a seated figure among trees.

Landscape with Pyramid and Sarcophagus, plate six from Les Soirées de Rome

Hubert Robert, 1763/64

Etching of classical Ionic column ruins overgrown with plants, a statue on a pedestal, seated figures, and an arched doorway.

The Statue before the Ruins, plate three from Les Soirées de Rome

Hubert Robert, 1763/64

Etched frontispiece with putti around an oval cartouche, surrounded by books, scrolls, a torch and a compass.

Frontispiece, plate one from Recueil de Poésies de Sedaine

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1757

Etching of a running messenger in animal skin holding a letter aloft, with a leaping deer and sketched trees in a landscape.

Messenger Sent to M. Saint-Denis, by M. Belle-Isle, Prisoner, plate three from Les Nouveaux Voyages aux Indes Occiden…

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1767

Etching of a narrow town street with soldiers marching past and a couple in fine dress at a doorway with a drawn sword.

One Never Thinks About It At All

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1761

Hand-colored lithograph of a woman in black standing by a gravestone and tree, with a white monument behind her.

The Grave of My Mother

Napoleon Sarony, 1853

Engraved landscape of large linden trees over a churchyard with gravestones, a man and dog at right, and village buildings at

Under the Shady Linden Tree

Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, 1838

Engraving of crowds gathered beside a large white tent in a forest, with a bearded man leaning on a staff in the foreground.

The Days of Noah

James Smetham, 1860

Etching of a barefoot woman holding a sleeping child in a dim interior, looking toward a doorway.

The Haunted House

Simeon Solomon, 1858

Etching of fishermen with nets and a boat beside a large tree, with a tower and river landscape in the background.

The Return from Fishing

Joseph Vernet, n.d.

Engraving of a standing Persian ambassador in a fur-trimmed robe and feathered turban, holding a staff beside a stone wall.

The Persian Ambassador, plate eighteen from Caravanne du Sultane à la Mecque

the elder Joseph-Marie Vien, 1748

Etching of a cow, goats, a sheep and a figure beside a trough in a mountain landscape with a stream.

The Plowers

Amalie Voltz, n.d.

Etching of a seated woman and a child arranging evergreen branches beside a window with a hanging wreath.

Christmas Greens

J. Alden Weir, 1889

Hand-colored print of a flower bouquet in an ornate urn before a tree, winding path, and lake, framed by gilded foliate borde

Nature's Gems

Edwin Whitefield, c. 1844

Engraved allegory with winged figures, armored warriors, a medallion bust and a fallen figure beneath classical columns, 1737

La Lorraine reunie a la France (Lorraine Reunited with France)

Charles-Nicolas Cochin, 1737

Engraved rococo interior with a seated woman and a kneeling man beside a draped curtain, garlands, and mirrors.

Le danger du tête-à-tête (The Danger of the Private Conversation)

Jean Baptiste Blaise Simonet, c. 1775

Engraved oval portrait of a young woman with upswept hair and lace trim, in an ornate border with dolphin motifs and inscript

Monseigneur le Dauphin de France (Portrait of Louis, the Dauphin of France)

Jean Daullé, 1730/33

Etching of an elderly bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat holding a mess tin, with dense crosshatched shading behind him.

Old Man with Mess Tin

Charles Émile Jacque, 1844

Grey-green drawing of Saint Catherine bound before a column while two executioners in draped robes stand beside her.

Flagellation of Saint Catherine

Bernardino Lanino, 1550/55

Pen and wash drawing of Diana of Ephesus on a pedestal surrounded by lion, stag, eagle and dog, with two figures.

Diana of Ephesus as Allegory of Nature

Joseph Werner, c. 1680

Winged Cupid, blindfolded, draws a bow while draped women and a kneeling figure surround him in a gilded grassy landscape.

Cupid's Hunting Fields

Edward Burne-Jones, 1885

Charcoal drawing of a seated boy in a dark jacket reading an open book, looking upward beside a framed picture on the wall.

Boy Reading

François Bonvin, c. 1861

Etching of Abraham restraining Isaac on a fire altar as an angel and a bearded God appear in radiant clouds above.

The Sacrifice of Isaac

Pietro Testa, 1640/ 42

Mezzotint of a fashionable couple riding a scissor-lift phaeton beside a building as horses and onlookers watch below.

The New Fashioned Phaeton

Attributed to Philip Dawe, 1776