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Art Institute of Chicago

13,165 works

Black and white print of Christ breaking into hell, with demons, naked souls, and an arched gate.

The Harrowing of Hell - Christ in Limbo, plate nine from The Large Passion

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Lithograph of a Swiss sentry by a wall as a crutch-using man in a top hat walks past in a city street.

Swiss Sentry at the Louvre

Théodore Géricault, 1819

Engraving of nude Adam pulling a serpent from a tree while Eve nurses an infant in a wooded landscape, 1540.

Adam and Eve at Work, from The Story of Adam and Eve

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1540

Engraving of the armored god Mars with a bow and arrows, standing over a bound figure beside a tree and column.

Mars

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1529

Female Head in Profile to Right

Attributed to Carlo Cignani, n.d.

Black chalk drawing of a bearded seated male nude with folded arms on a tan paper ground.

Seated Male Nude

Follower of Jacopo Chimenti, called Jacopo da Empoli, 1600/40

Pale drawing of a bearded standing figure in a long robe, raising one hand, set against a dark brown wash background.

Christ Blessing

Possibly Orazio de' Ferraro, n.d.

Brown ink and red wash drawing of a seated woman holding a spindle, with a vase and bowl beside her.

Seated Woman with Spindle

Circle of Francesco de'Rossi, called Salviati, n.d.

Japanese woodblock print of a figure in purple kimono and olive hakama holding a tall tasseled pole.

Parody of a daimyo procession

Utagawa Toyohiro, c. 1805/07

Woodblock print of a kneeling man in a checked robe beside a tea tray, with calligraphy and snow above.

The actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII

Utagawa Kunisada I, 1849

Engraved portrait of a seated man in a loose garment with chains at his wrist, gazing upward against a dark background.

The Captive Slave

Edward Francis Finden, published 1827

Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a patterned robe kneeling beneath pink blossoms, holding a comb.

The actor Sawamura Sojuro V as Tsubone Iwafuji

Utagawa Kunisada I, 1847

Oval color print of a woman in blue silk with white plumes in her hair, framed by orange garlands and a caption naming Marie

Marie Antoinette

Jean François Janinet, 1777

Reading (Mr. and Mrs. Ch. Deering)

Anders Zorn, 1893

Hand-colored print of a woman seated on a blue bench in a wooded garden, with a distant town visible at right.

Madame Dugazon in the Opera “Nina, ou La folle par amour” (Nina, or The Woman Maddened by Love)

Jean François Janinet, 1787

Hand-colored print of costumed comedians in a garden, a woman playing lute beside a statue and trees.

The Comedians

Jean François Janinet, n.d.

Colored print of costumed figures in a garden with a stone pedestal, a flute player, and a seated woman in green.

The Comic Rendevous

Jean François Janinet, n.d.

Etched portrait of a man with a cigarette, head turned toward viewer, shaded with dense hatching on dark background.

Prince Paul Troubetzkoy II (Bust)

Anders Zorn, 1909

Etching of an elderly seated man in a dark suit reading a book by a window, rendered in dense hatched lines.

Travelling Companion (Mr. Ch. Deering)

Anders Zorn, 1904

Hand-colored print of a young woman in white leaning from a window to water potted plants and roses on a sill.

La Jardinière

Jean Baptiste Moret, 1790-1820

Etching of two nude figures by the water's edge, one standing and one crouching, with rippling waves and a distant shoreline.

On Hemsö Island

Anders Zorn, 1917

Etched bust portrait of a woman with voluminous dark hair and a high-collared dark dress, by Anders Zorn.

Mrs. Potter Palmer

Anders Zorn, 1896

Brown etching of a young woman in a headscarf looking down while reading a letter, on cream paper.

The Letter

Anders Zorn, 1913

Self-Portrait 1916

Anders Zorn, 1916

Gulli I

Anders Zorn, 1914

Etching of a bearded man with closed eyes and head tilted back, in dark hatched lines, with studio forms at the left.

Auguste Rodin

Anders Zorn, 1906

Loose ink sketch of a head with dense dark hatched hair and shadowed face on a pale tan mount.

Head of a Girl

Anders Zorn, n.d.

Watercolor of a woman with lowered eyes in a black veil, set against a pale ochre oval background.

Head of a Veiled Woman

Anders Zorn, n.d.

Hand-coloured print of a laundress in a white cap washing linen in a basin on a stone window ledge.

The Laundress

Julien et Moret, c. 1793

Portrait of Hubert Gravelot

Jean Massard, 1760/1822