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Art Institute of Chicago

13,165 works

Woodblock print of a water vendor in a conical hat carrying wooden buckets on a pole across his shoulders.

A water vendor

Suzuki Harunobu, 1765

Etching of an ornate building facade with a carved pediment, dark doorway with steps, and small pedestrians in the street.

House of the Swan, Brussels

James McNeill Whistler, 1887

Etching of a narrow street with a sign reading Entrance to the Exhibition Clothes Exchange and women in long dresses.

Fleur-de-lys Passage

James McNeill Whistler, 1887

Woman in a checkered red kimono seated on a bamboo bench beside a fan, with reeds behind her, in a Japanese woodblock print.

By the Stream

Attributed to Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1765

Etching of a shadowed stone doorway with a standing figure, a figure at an upper left doorway, and loose hatched lines.

Doorway, Stables - Loches

James McNeill Whistler, 1888

Woodblock print of a fan peddler in patterned robes carrying a pole loaded with decorated round fans.

The Fan Peddler

Attributed to Suzuki Harunobu, 1765

Etching of a narrow street with old houses, dormer windows, a cathedral tower behind, and small figures in the distance.

Under the Cathedral, Blois

James McNeill Whistler, 1888

Etching of a calm river at evening with tall poplars, dark trees, a small boat, and reflections on the water.

Evening

Francis Seymour Haden, 1864

Etching of a dim church interior with a stone font, robed figures, and a bright doorway opening onto a street.

Church Interior, Venice, plate sixteen from the North Italian Set

David Young Cameron, 1896

The Stalk - Moulin Rouge

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1894

Etched portrait of a seated woman in a bonnet and lace collar, holding a parasol, with cross-hatched background.

Woman with a Parasol (Mrs. Friedrich Christian Glume, Sister-in-Law of the Artist)

Johann Gottlieb Glume, 1749

Etching of an ornate urn on a stone pedestal among ruins and trees, with a rocky cliff opening onto the sky.

Antique Ruined Statuary

Jean-Laurent Legeay, 1767/70

Pencil sketch on tan paper of a seated man with long hair and a draped cloak, head bowed in quiet pose.

H.C. Pollitt

James McNeill Whistler, 1896

Engraving of a woman with a feathered hat whipping a kneeling bearded man on grass, with onlookers in a doorway.

Aristotle and Phyllis

Master M. Z., c. 1500

Rev. John Farrer

Thomas Bewick, n.d.

Black-and-white engraving of a peacock on a wooden rail with its tail spread, a peahen and small birds below, trees behind.

Peacock

Thomas Bewick, n.d.

Etching of a riverside marketplace with round sunshades under steep half-timbered houses and a cloudy sky.

Marketplace with Sunshades

Rodolphe Bresdin, 1866

Red chalk drawing of a muscular nude male figure with curly hair, turned to one side, on pale paper.

Saint Sebastian

possibly Jacopo Confortini, n.d.

Vertical etching of a grotesque candelabra with winged birds, trumpeting satyrs, medallions and sea creatures.

Grotesque Candelabra with Musical Sayrs and Relief Medallions

Daniel I Hopfer, c. 1505-1536, printed c. 1802

Lithograph of a bagpiper in a long cloak and hat playing beside a small dog near a stone wall and arched doorway.

The Piper, plate one from Various Subjects Drawn from Life on Stone

Théodore Géricault, 1821

Engraved oval portrait of a man in a curled wig, lace collar and studded armor, set in a stone plinth frame.

Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy

Ange Laurent de Lalive de Jully, n.d.

Pen and ink study of muscular male nudes with raised arms and clenched fists, with faint underdrawn figures behind.

Study of a Nude Seen from the Back, and Two Studies of an Arm (recto); Nude Seen from the Back, with Subsidiary Studi…

Perino del Vaga, c. 1528

Brown ink and wash drawing of a young warrior in scale armor lifting a curtain, seen from behind.

Young Warrior, Seen from Behind, Lifting a Curtain

Francesco Salviati, 1550/55

Brown ink and wash drawing of a city street with figures on stone steps before a columned palace entrance.

Sophronia Enters the Palace of Aladin

Andrea Boscoli, 1604/06

Pencil study of a bearded seated man draped in a cloak, one leg extended, on a stone ledge.

Study of a Kneeling Saint

Orazio Samacchini, 1570/75

Brown wash drawing of Christ bound to a column while figures with whips and armed soldiers surround him in a stone interior.

The Flagellation of Christ

Palma il Giovane, by 1594

Brown ink and wash drawing of a fallen rider and startled horses under a beam of light from heaven, with a walled city.

The Conversion of Saint Paul

Ludovico Carracci, 1587/89

Pencil sketch of a horse seen from behind with a second faint horse study at right, on pale paper.

Studies of a Horse

Edgar Degas, 1868/75

Japanese woodblock print of two courtesans in patterned kimono walking with attendants beside a pine tree and bamboo.

The Courtesan Komurasaki of the Tamaya Parading with Her Attendants

Gokyo, c. 1790

Pen and brown wash drawing of a crowd around a central figure raising his arm, with a wrapped body below, by Salvator Rosa.

Raising of Lazarus

Salvator Rosa, early 1660s