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Art Institute of Chicago

24,198 works

Sepia pastoral print of a bull, sheep, and a dog with wreathed figures playing pipes and drum under a tree.

O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona nôrint, Agricolas (O Happy Farmers If Only They Knew Their Blessings)

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, 1768

Lithograph of the Gothic Masonic Temple in Boston with pointed towers, a central arched window and figures in the street.

Masonic Temple, Boston

? - Benjamin F. Nutting, 1832

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.

Pen and wash drawing of Cupid and Psyche on a canopied bed, with attendants bringing fruit and a candelabra at right.

Cupid and Psyche

Pierre Lélu, 1793

Engraved oval portrait of George Washington in a military coat with epaulettes and powdered hair, facing right.

George Washington

Edward Savage, c. 1792

Etching of a bearded man seated with two women beside a wine flask, under a rocky hillside with a distant city.

Said Mayor Filarum

the elder Joseph-Marie Vien, 1748

Etching of a young boy with a walking stick and fur-trimmed cloak seated beside a box, with bushes behind him.

The Little Savoyard

François Boucher, n.d.

Engraved landscape of a river between wooded mountains, with figures and a boat on the shore.

Delaware Water Gap

Asher Brown Durand, 1830

Etching of a bull with long horns and a neck bell beside a tree, with two sheep lying in the foreground.

A Bull and Two Sheep

Pierre Lélu, n.d.

Etched landscape of a lake with a large tree, a columned temple on the water, strollers, swans and a boat.

Lake in Villa Borghese

Albert Christoph Dies, 1793

Engraved crowd scene of a robed officiant at an altar in a vaulted hall, with a woman holding an infant beside it.

Le Culte Naturel (The Natural Worship)

Jean-Baptiste Mallet, 1794

Etching of a winged female figure holding a mirror beside a celestial globe and compass, with a classical column behind her.

Female Personification of Science

Joseph Fratrel, 1776

Engraved title page with two winged allegorical women, laurel wreaths, dogs, and a dedicatory cartouche with lettering.

Page 1 (Title Page) and Page 28, from Premier Livre de Figures d’Académies Gravées en Partie par les Professeurs de l…

Gabriel Huquier, 1737

Etching of a nude male figure seated on rocks, arm raised with a chain hanging from the wrist, gazing sideways.

Page 29, from Premier Livre de Figures d’Academies Gravées en Partie par les Professeurs de l’Académie Royale

Gabriel Huquier, 1737

Etched academic study of a nude man leaning on a draped pedestal, arms crossed over his chest, with fine hatched shading.

Page 30 and Page 31, from Premier Livre de Figures d'Academies Gravées en Partie par les Professeurs de l’Académie Ro…

Gabriel Huquier, published 1737

Etching of a nude male figure twisting over a rocky ledge with drapery and small plants below, hatched in fine lines.

Page 32, from Premier Livre de Figures d’Academies Gravées en Partie par les Professeurs de l’Académie Royale

Pierre Alexandre Aveline, 1737

Etching of a muscular male nude seated on a rock, arm raised and pointing, from an 18th-century academy figure study book.

Page 33 and Page 36, from Premier Livre de Figures d'Academies gravées en Partie par les Professeurs de l’ Académie R…

Charles-Joseph Natoire, published 1737

Engraved academic figure of a seated nude man on a rock, looking upward, with a title cartouche below.

Title-page and page 40, from Second Livre de Figures d'Academies Gravées en Partie par les Professeurs de l’Académie…

Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, published 1745

Two facing pages of academic nude male figure studies, one engraved with hatching on a rocky ledge, one faint sketch with a s

Page 38 and Page 39, from Second Livre de Figures d'Academies Gravées en Partie par les Professeurs de l’Académie Royale

Collin de Vermont, published 1745

Engraved academic study of a nude man seen from behind, reaching upward and resting one hand on a stone block.

Page 41, from Second Livre de Figures d'Academies Gravées en Partie par les Professeurs de l’Académie Royale

Pierre Soubeyran, published 1745

Etching of a seated male nude pulling his raised leg, with a draped cloth and sketched landscape behind him.

Page 44, from Second Livre de Figures d'Academies Gravées en Partie par les Professeurs de l’Académie Royale

Charles-Joseph Natoire, published 1745

Etching of a seated woman in a dotted blouse holding a small child in white on her lap, against a paneled wall.

Repose

Mary Cassatt, c. 1890

Engraved oval portrait of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, in a dark cap and robe within an ornate decorative frame.

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

Jacob Houbraken, n.d.

Engraving of Christ kneeling with the cross and crown of thorns while a woman in a headscarf reaches toward him.

Christ Carrying the Cross

Lucas van Leyden, 1515

Engraving of a haloed saint in a monk's robe holding a cross-topped staff, with a dog and rocky landscape beside him.

Saint Dominic

Lucas van Leyden, c. 1514

Print of a standing robed figure holding an open Bible and pointing, on a rectangular pedestal, after Schadow's Luther statue

Luther's Statue in Wittenberg

Johann Gottfried Schadow, 1822

Etching of a smiling man in a cap leaning on a chair back, holding a pipe beside a table with bread and a bowl.

Smoker Leaning on the Back of a Chair

Adriaen van Ostade, c. 1652

Etching of three men in a dim tavern, one raising an empty jug at a table beneath an arched hearth.

The Empty Jug

Adriaen van Ostade, c. 1653

Brown ink sketch of a seated woman milking a ewe beside a wooden shelter.

Woman Milking an Ewe

Cornelis van Noorde, n.d.

Etching of a dense forest with a tall tree, a winding path, and two running figures under a cloudy sky.

Apollo and Daphne

Anthonie Waterloo, 1640-90