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Art Institute of Chicago

5,122 works

Hand-colored print of a canal with a rowing boat, a large tree, townhouses and strolling figures on the quay.

View of the Golden Bend on the Herengracht Canal, Amsterdam

Jan van Call, c. 1694

Bull of the Roman Campagna

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1773/74

Open sketchbook with pencil interior studies of framed paintings and a small watercolor of a seated man with cherubs.

Sketchbook

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, c. 1760-64

Hand-colored caricature of women in muslin gowns catching fire near a fireplace while others at a tea table panic.

Advantages of Wearing Muslin Dresses!

James Gillray, published February 15, 1802

Hand-colored print of a woman in a sheer white gown and tall feathered headdress holding a fan in a decorated room.

Ladies Dress, As it Soon Will Be

James Gillray, published June 20, 1796

Three sepia watercolor perspective sketches of a Gothic-style church with tall towers and arched entrances, side by side on p

Saint Gabriel's Church, Chicago, Illinois, Perspective Sketches

Burnham and Root, c. 1889

The Sphinx

Odilon Redon, 1883

Charcoal drawing of a glowing nebula-like orb with radiating rays and stars in a dark night sky above a horizon.

Le Nebuleuse

Odilon Redon, 1875/80

Vision

Odilon Redon, 1895/97

Drawing of a young man in a powdered wig and white collar, one hand on an open book at a table.

The Little Abbot Reading the Ramayana

Odilon Redon, 1883

Brown drawing of a helmeted figure leaning over a cauldron holding a skull and a pale face amid dark smoke.

Cauldron of the Sorceress

Odilon Redon, 1879

Charcoal drawing of a pale face with large eyes atop a curved stem, dark petals behind it, and fallen leaves on the ground.

Strange Flower (Little Sister of the Poor)

Odilon Redon, 1880

Brown ink and wash drawing of figures in a courtyard beneath a large arched wooden structure.

Noah's Ark

Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1660

Pen and brown ink sketch of thatched farm buildings beside a waterway, with a moored boat and trees in the foreground.

A Farm on the Amsteldijk, Seen from the Northwest

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650/53

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated nude woman with bowed head on a stool, against a shaded background.

Seated Female Nude

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1660/62

Medieval prayerbook page with a large gold and blue illuminated initial H, floral borders and red and blue text initials.

Illuminated Initial "H" from a Prayerbook

Unknown artist, 15th century

Album page with black calligraphy in a central cartouche, surrounded by painted animals including deer, gazelles and a lion a

Album Page with Calligraphic Specimen and Animal Border

Unknown artist, , late 17th century (border); c. 16th century (calligraphy)

Brown wash drawing of a rocky cliff, winding path and hills, with two small figures and a dog on the horizon.

A Hilly Landscape with Figures Near a Ravine

the elder Jan Brueghel, 1595

Graphite drawing of a man with bowed head and thick wavy hair, eyes lowered, shown in three-quarter view on pale paper.

Self-Portrait

Simeon Solomon, 1860

Pen and brown ink drawing of a classical colonnaded hall with a banquet table, seated guests and robed figures in the foregro

Feast in the House of Simon

Probably Giovanni Battista Lanzeni, n.d.

Watercolor of a farm boy in a straw hat carrying a pumpkin through a field of vines, with hills behind him.

For to Be a Farmer's Boy

Winslow Homer, 1887

Pastel self-portrait of a bearded man in an orange jacket holding a palette, with sketched figures behind him.

Self-Portrait

Louis Gallait, 1843

Pencil portrait of a man with swept-back hair and a white collar, looking toward the viewer, on tinted paper.

Portrait of John Flaxman, R.A.

probably George Henry Harlow, n.d.

Study of Pilgrim for Romaunt of the Rose

Edward Burne-Jones, c. 1873-77

Black chalk drawing of a woman's head turned three-quarters, with curled hair and a long braid over her shoulder.

Woman's Head (recto); Sketch of Arm and Hand (verso)

Follower of Paolo Veronese

Torn brown drawing of the Virgin and Child with saints above a muscular male figure gesturing at a stone ledge.

Virgin and Child with Saints (recto); Study of Arm (verso)

Attributed to Bartomomeo Ramemghi, the elder, 1560/80

Red chalk sketch of a mitred bishop with crozier above kneeling figures and a pedestal, within faint architectural framing.

Miracle of Bishop Saint

Attributed to Pietro Santi, n.d.

Pencil drawing of a ceremony in a classical church interior with robed priests, kneeling figure, soldiers and cherubs.

Ceremony in Church

Marie-Felice Subleyras-Tibaldi, n.d.

Pen and brown ink sketch of nude and draped dancers in a wooded clearing, with a seated piper at left and urns in the foregro

Bacchanale

Attributed to Joshua Cristall, n.d.

Pencil study of a standing nude woman with raised arm, beside sketches of hands on yellowed paper.

Study for Joan of Arc, and Sketches of Hands

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, c. 1851