New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome

Art Institute of Chicago

5,122 works

Pen and ink study of warriors, horsemen and lions on a reddish ground, sketched in many overlapping poses.

Studies of Warriors, Horsemen, and Lions (recto); Studies of Heads and Nude Figures, Ceiling Plan, and Inscriptions (…

called Perino del Vaga Pietro Buonaccorsi, 1528/33

Pen and brown wash drawing of an elderly bearded man seated between a kneeling figure and a child, with loose drapery.

Study for Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph (recto); Sketches: Saint Christopher; Two Figures in Conversation over Mo…

Guercino, c. 1620

Sketches of Male Heads (recto); Queen and Page (verso)

Possibly Giambattista Tiepolo, n.d.

Head of Youth in Profile to Left (recto); Fragment of Figure Sketch (verso)

Style of Pietro da Cortona, 17th century

Brown wash drawing of a crowned king handing a tablet to kneeling and bearded figures, with a woman crowning a youth.

Numa Pompilius Giving the Laws to the Romans

Possibly Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, n.d.

Pen and red chalk study of a winged angel standing on clouds, with flowing drapery and a long staff.

Study after Bernini's Angel sculpture at Ponte Sant'Angelo (recto); Copy of Africa Group (verso)

Recto after Gian Lorenzo Bernini, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a nativity scene with a seated woman, a newborn infant, kneeling men and a standing onlooker.

Adoration of the Shepherds

Follower of Jacopo Negretti, called Palma il Giovane, n.d.

Watercolor landscape with bare trees, a man on a donkey on a dirt path, red roofs in the distance, and heavy clouds.

Landscape with Man on a Donkey (recto) Two Women in a Cafe (verso)

Johan Barthold Jongkind, c. 1849

Charcoal drawing of a reclining male nude with bound arms inside a circular border on cream paper.

Bound Man (recto); Sketch of Bound Man (verso)

John Singer Sargent, 1917/21

Pencil sketch of a seated man with a raised hand and draped garment, on speckled tan paper.

Portrait of Fuseli (recto); Sketch of a Hand (verso)

Attributed to Henry Fuseli, 1761/1825 (recto); 1770/80 (verso)

Woman with Book (recto); Sketches of Male Figure (verso)

Attributed to Alfred George Stevens, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing of acrobats performing before a seated ruler, with a crowd, trees, and a city gate behind.

Acrobats Performing Before a Ruler (recto); Outdoor Scene with Group of Figures (verso)

Attributed to Giovanni Antonio de'Sacchis, called Il Pordenone, c. 1510

Pen and ink sketch of many nude figures tumbling downward in a tangled mass, with anguished faces and twisted limbs.

Fall of the Damned (recto) Male Torso (verso)

Circle of Ludovico Cardi, called Il Cigoli, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a reclining infant with a serpent coiled beneath him, on tan paper.

Infant Hercules (recto); Standing Putto with Hand to Chin (verso)

Follower of Francesco Mazzola, called Parmigianino, 1523/1540

Brown wash drawing of a female figure with outstretched arms ascending on clouds, supported by an angel and a cherub.

Assumption (recto) Portrait Heads, various Sketches (verso)

Probably after Guido Canlassi, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing with blue wash of many nude figures falling in a swirl beneath a winged figure above.

Fall of the Damned (recto); Sketches of Seated Saint John the Baptist (verso)

Circle of Ludovico Cardi, called Il Cigoli, n.d.

Pen and brown ink drawing of a lion's head, draped figures and nude men in a bacchanale scene on aged paper.

Blenheim Palace Sarcophagus: Bacchanale with Lion's Head

called Girolamo da Carpi Girolamo Sellari, 1549/53

Pen and ink study of two muscular male nude figures in twisting poses, with faint preliminary sketches on paper.

Studies for Thieves on the Cross (recto), Sketch of Figures (verso)

Attributed to Pietro Testa, n.d.

Pen and brown ink sketch of a saint descending over kneeling figures, a crowned ruler, and a flying putto.

Saint Appearing to Ruler (recto); Flying Putto (verso)

Possibly Pietro Novelli, n.d.

Chalk sketch on dark paper of seated and reclining draped figures, one holding a tall staff.

Return of the Prodigal Son

Attributed to Alessandro Magnasco, n.d.

Pen and brown ink drawing of two standing draped female saints with flowing robes and study-like hatching.

Saint Lucy and a Saint (recto); Alexander the Great in Profile (verso)

Attributed to Agnolo and/or Donnino di Domenico, called del Mazziere, 1500/12

Sketches of Child Praying, Two Male Profiles (recto); Sketches of Male Heads (verso)

Attributed to Stefano della Bella, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of the Circumcision with an infant on an altar, a priest, draped women and winged cherubs in clouds.

Circumcision

probably after Ciro Ferri, n.d.

Pen and brown ink drawing of nude riders, horses, a chariot and a crowd before a building, a mythological pageant.

Mythological Pageant (recto); Illegible Inscriptions and Anatomical Studies of Head (verso)

Girolamo Genga, 1528/29

Pen and ink drawing of the Virgin seated with the nude Christ Child on her lap, with red chalk accents and loose cloud sketch

Virgin and Child (recto); Sketch of Three Saints and Caricature Sketch (verso)

After Parmigianino

Brown ink and wash drawing of winged angels in clusters on clouds, study for a ceiling design, attributed to Giuseppe Nicola

Ceiling Design: Angels (recto); Sketches of Angels (verso)

Attributed to Giuseppe Nicola Nasini, n.d.

Red chalk sketch of a standing figure with raised arm, a kneeling figure, and an angel among clouds above.

Abraham's Sacrifice (recto and verso)

called Il Borgognone Guillaume Courtois, c. 1665

Head of a Man (recto); Head of a Woman (verso)

Possibly Jonathan Richardson, 1710/20

Brown ink and wash drawing of the infant Hercules among serpents in a canopied interior with nude figures and an ornate chest

The Infant Hercules Strangling Serpents in His Cradle (recto); Crowned Woman Kneeling in Landscape, and Other Sketche…

Attributed to Prospero Fontana, n.d.

Pen and brown ink sketch of a seated Virgin holding the Christ child, with loose draped robes and rapid contour lines.

Seated Virgin and Child (recto); Seated Virgin and Child (verso)

Bernardino India, 1570/90