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Art Institute of Chicago

5,127 works

Grey wash drawing of a forest path with leaning trees, a stream, and small figures in the clearing beyond.

Forest with Stream and Figures

Possibly Jean Baptiste Pillement, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a frieze of Roman figures, a man with a sword confronting a seated ruler amid soldiers.

Mucius Scaevola Crossing the Tiber, Intending to Assassinate Porsenna but Killing his Treasurer by Mistake

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

Pen and ink sketch of Saint Andrew before a raised cross, with angels above and onlookers and a tower below.

Saint Andrew Adoring the Cross

Possibly after Giovanni Battista Gaulli, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing of a pope in a tiara embraced by a winged devil, with grotesque figures and fire around them.

Pope Embraced by Devil

Style of John Hamilton Mortimer, n.d.

Pen and ink sketch of soldiers, a mounted rider with banner, and fallen figures in a scene of massacre.

Massacre of the Innocents

or after ( Francesco Solimena, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a kneeling bishop before a crowned ruler, a woman beside him, under a draped canopy.

Queen Intervening to Spare the Life of a Bishop Saint

Lazzaro Tavarone, c. 1634

Red chalk drawing of a veiled, draped figure at a sacrificial altar with rising smoke and sketched studies beside it.

After the Antique: Roman Officiant at a Sacrificial Altar

called Salviati Francesco de'Rossi, 1531/32

Pen and wash drawing of a kneeling man and standing woman in a room, with a winged angel and a dog, over red grid lines.

Tobias and Sarah Praying on Their Wedding Night

Lazzaro Tavarone, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a large arch with pillars and a vaulted interior, mounted on a brown card mat.

Sketch of an Arch

Attributed to Richard Wilson, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a hillside town with fortified walls, buildings on a steep cliff above water.

View of Clifton

John Skinner Prout, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of Saint Joseph holding the Christ Child with bearded saints, a lion, and architectural drapery.

Saint Joseph and Christ Child, with Saints Mark and Anthony

School of Guido Reni, n.d.

Pen and brown ink sketch of bearded male heads and a hand, with faint blue chalk figure outlines beneath.

Sketches of Two Male Heads in Profile to Right

Style of Donato Creti, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of draped male attendants with flagons and pitchers in a shadowy architectural setting.

Fragment of a Composition: Attendants Bearing Flagons

Attributed to Biagio Pupini, called dalle Lame, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of the risen Christ ascending over cloud, with an angel and startled soldiers below.

Resurrection of Christ

Style of Charles Le Brun, n.d.

Blue paper drawing of clouds above a dark horizon with white highlights and horizontal water streaks.

Study of Clouds

Style of William Turner, n.d.

Saint Anne and Standing Woman with Salver

After Andrea del Sarto, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of three classical muses, Thalia, Clio and Melpomene, with mask, scroll, trumpet and sword.

Thalia, Clio, and Melpomene

Giovanni Battista Cipriani or circle of, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of a bearded herm figure with a draped cloth gathered at the chest, on a hatched background.

Term

After Annibale Carracci, after 1600

Pale brown drawing of Neptune in a chariot pulled by sea horses, with tritons, nymphs and putti in waves.

Chariot of Neptune Surrounded by Tritons, Nymphs, and Putti

Style of Pierre Brebiette, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated bearded man beside a steaming bowl, with a standing robed figure behind him.

Magician Healing Sick Man

Attributed to Felice Giani, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a haloed saint seated among armored soldiers in an arched composition on blue paper.

Martyrdom of a Saint

Attributed to Jacopo Cavedone, n.d.

Chalk drawing on blue paper of a seated satyr with curly hair, seen from behind, on a rocky mound.

A Satyr Playing His Pipes

Possibly Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a seated haloed Madonna holding the infant Christ, with a seated figure reading at left under an arch.

Madonna del Sacco

After Andrea del Sarto, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a robed saint borne aloft by angels above kneeling figures and a reclining body on a stone pedestal.

San Carlo Borraomeo Interceding for Plague Victims

Style of Sebastiano Conca, n.d.

Pencil drawing of Gothic church ruins with pointed arches, ivy-covered walls, and a grassy path with an iron gate.

Church Ruins

John Cart Burgess, n.d.

Pencil drawing of a chariot with armored warriors and horses racing through clouds, with figures in the sky.

Chariot of Mars

Follower of Jean Baptiste Jouvenet, III, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a centaur carrying a woman while a nude man points at them, with reclining figures and a landscape behi

Nessus, Deianeira and Hercules

School of Charles Le Brun, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of a fallen rider, a horse, armored soldiers with spears, and a winged figure in clouds above.

Conversion of Saint Paul

After Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael, 18th century

Brown ink drawing of Christ blessing a crowd of mothers and children on a stone platform beside architecture.

"Suffer Little Children to Come unto Me"

After Giovanni Battista Tinti, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Virgin with the infant Christ, kneeling shepherds, and an ox in a classical stable.

Adoration of the Shepherds

Possibly after Nicolas Poussin, n.d.