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Art Institute of Chicago

13,165 works

Charcoal drawing of a large tree with a woman reaching upward and a small winged child leaping beside her.

Venus Disarming Cupid

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1852/57

Poster showing a dark centaur lifting a boulder on a rocky hill beneath clouds, with blue lettering announcing the Basel exhi

Boecklin Jubilee Exhibition Basel

Hans Lendorff, 1897

Architectural design drawing of a church altar with columns, a radiant cross, cherubs, and a colored floor plan below.

Design for an Altar in the Church of the Confraternity of Santissima Trinita, Turin

Filippo Juvara, c. 1734

Etching of a classical domed hall with an armored warrior, a woman at an altar, and a fallen figure in the foreground.

Mérope

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1750

Margrave Christoph I of Baden

Hans Baldung Grien, 1511

Pen and wash drawing of a seated bishop saint with mitre, crozier and book, rays of light behind his head.

Saint Willibrord

Abraham Bloemaert, 1625/30

Woodcut print of a bearded man in a turban wrestling a lion on a hill, with a castle and city in the background.

Samson Rending the Lion

Albrecht Dürer, 1496/97

Red chalk drawing of an elderly bearded man in a wide hat and worn coat, holding a small wooden box.

The Old Savoyard

Jean-Antoine Watteau, c. 1715

Pencil portrait of a young man seated at a piano, turning to look at the viewer, with Don Juan sheet music on the stand.

Charles Gounod

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1841

Woodcut of Hercules wrestling a many-headed serpent, the Lernean Hydra, among dark rocks.

Hercules Killing the Lernean Hydra, from Scenes from the Life of Hercules

Gabriel Salmon, c. 1528

Woodcut of Hercules, a nude muscular man, wrestling a large boar among tree trunks.

The Labors of Hercules: Hercules Subduing the Erymanthian Boar

Gabriel Salmon, c. 1528

Woodcut of Hercules wrestling a bull by its horn, with trees and dense hatched lines behind the figures.

The Labors of Hercules: Hercules Capture of the Cretan Bull

Gabriel Salmon, c. 1528

Woodcut of Hercules, seen from behind, wrestling the three-headed dog Cerberus beside a cave opening.

The Labors of Hercules: Bringing Cerberus from the Lower World

Gabriel Salmon, c. 1528

Woodcut of two nude men wrestling, one lifting the other, with a rocky cliff, distant town and fire.

The Labors of Hercules: Hercules and Antaeus

Gabriel Salmon, c. 1528

Woodcut of muscular Hercules wrestling Cacus with a draped woman behind him and ornamental scrollwork below.

The Labors of Hercules: Hercules and Cacus

Gabriel Salmon, c. 1528

Woodcut of nude Hercules fighting armored giants with a club and shield, surrounded by fallen helmets and armor.

Hercules and the Giants, from Scenes from the Life of Hercules

Gabriel Salmon, c. 1528

Woodcut of Hercules raising a club among two satyrs and a woman, with dense hatching and a dragon in the background.

Hercules, Two Satyrs, and a Woman, plate two from The Labors of Hercules

Gabriel Salmon, c. 1528

Woodcut of a muscular bearded man rising from flames and clouds, surrounded by arrows and a club, Hercules on the pyre.

The Labors of Hercules: Hercules on the Pyre

Gabriel Salmon, c. 1528

Pencil sketch of a garden fountain topped by a putto statue, with trees and shrubs behind, by Hans Thoma.

Fountain with Putti in the Garden of the Villa Borghese

Hans Thoma, 1880

Etching of Florence's Palazzo Vecchio with tall clock tower, arched windows, and figures walking in the street below.

Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, 1909

Etching of a narrow street under an arched gateway with a madonna statue, a seated beggar and children in the foreground.

Calle del Paradiso

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, 1909

Etching of an elderly bearded man with hand on chin, with classical figures and a column in the background.

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Portrait and Composition

Marcellin Gilbert Desboutin, 1895

Brown ink and wash drawing of muscular Hercules standing on a hydra, leaning on a club, with sketches at right.

The Triumphant Hercules with the Vanquished Hydra

Guercino, c. 1618

Pen and ink drawing of a sailing boat with a sail marked LEPIC and a rowboat on calm water, inside a circle.

Plate Design for E. Leveille

Ludovic Napoléon Lepic, 1886/89

Portrait of Maximillian Luce in 1887

Georges Manzana-Pissarro, 1887

Caricature drawing of a man with a large head, curly hair and side whiskers, standing with hands on hips, in chalk.

Caricature of a Man

Étienne Carjat, n.d.

Woodcut of a lamentation scene with a nude body across a mourning woman's lap, a ladder behind, nails and a jar below.

The Lamentation

Hans Baldung Grien, c. 1514

Lithograph portrait of a bearded man in a dark cape holding a walking stick, set against a shaded landscape.

Alfred de Musset

Paul Gavarni, 1854

Etching of allegorical figures with winged figure and cherubs above, wreaths exchanged below, classical architecture behind.

Plate from, Nella Venuta

Étienne de Lavallée-Poussin, 1764

Etched frontispiece by Édouard Manet showing a hat, guitar and draped cloth on a table, with the title Eaux-Fortes above.

Hat and Guitar, frontispiece for the edition of fourteen etchings

Édouard Manet, 1874