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Art Institute of Chicago

781 works

Pencil sketch of children in sun hats walking along a wooden fence rail with tall grasses behind them.

Children Sitting on a Fence

Winslow Homer, 1874

Lithograph of a top-hatted gentleman shaking hands with a smiling older woman as a ragged man lifts his hat and a child grabs

The Election Hoax. “My dear friend... do not think that I have come to ask you for your vote. I respect the independe…

Honoré Daumier, 1844

Etching of a woman washing pots beside a wooden shed while two children play in a rural courtyard.

Woman Washing Pots, with Children

Charles Émile Jacque, 1845

Sepia print of a woman in bed with an infant, attended by uniformed officers and grenadiers in bearskin caps, lit by a candle

See, M. le Maréchal, I am Truly His Mother...

Jean Henri Marlet, 1820-22

Woodblock print of a seated boy holding an hourglass and a fan with a phoenix design, in a patterned kimono.

Boy Holding Hourglass and Chinese Fan

Attrib. Kitao Shigemasa, 1780s

Etching of a stable boy grooming a horse at a thatched rural inn entrance, with a cart and seated woman nearby.

Entrance to an Inn, with Stable Boy

Charles Émile Jacque, 1850

Japanese woodblock print of two women in a garden, one fanning herself on a platform and one tending a kettle by a stream.

Two Girls Enjoying the Evening Cool in a Garden

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1765/70

Hand-colored print of a young girl with a red ribbon holding a green pot at a table with a fruit on a blue plate.

Little Girl with Pot

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1890

Small etching of a seated woman holding a child against her shoulder, set against a dark, heavily hatched background.

A Woman and her Child

Charles Émile Jacque, 1843

Lithograph of a seated artist in a studio greeting a line of children, with a dog, easel, and framed prints around him.

You who have made portraits of our fathers... would you make them of their children?

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, 1827

Red chalk drawing of a young woman in a headscarf and shawl, turning her head to the side, with sketched eye studies.

Bust of a Peasant Girl

Paul Adolphe Rajon, 1885

Etching of a seated woman and a child beside dark trees, rendered in loose hatched lines against a pale background.

Woman and her Children

Charles Émile Jacque, c. 1843

Lithograph of an elderly woman with a cane and umbrella scolding boys on stone steps, with a small dog on a leash.

Children these days are a bad lot!

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, 1827

Etching of a headscarfed woman seated in a dim room, spoon-feeding a small child held in her lap.

Woman Feeding Her Child

Jean-François Millet, 1861

Etching of a woman in a headscarf with a child beside a cluttered interior of fruit baskets and a wooden table.

The Fruit Merchant and the Child

Charles Émile Jacque, 1844

Lithograph of girls in bonnets gathering on a city street near a seated man with a handkerchief and a kneeling boy.

The Good Little Girls

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, 1832

Etching of two seated children seen from behind, facing a pale sea and sky with distant figures on the shore.

Children on the Beach, Berneval

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1892

Etched print of a seated woman with head in hands beside a lute, a cloaked man gesturing nearby, against rocky terrain.

The Pretty Girl of Perth

Charles Émile Jacque, n.d.

Lithograph of a hooded woman with baskets standing over a fallen soldier on a battlefield, with mountains behind.

Poor Children!! May God take pity on their souls!

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, 1834

Broadside print of a man with a guitar serenading a woman at a window, with a garden, crescent moon and Spanish verses below.

Pretty Girls

José Guadalupe Posada, c. 1911

Sepia etching of three women with upswept hair leaning together, with pedestrians on a street behind them.

Three Working Girls Out for Lunch

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, 1900

Lithograph of Hungarian schoolchildren in white dress walking past a shepherd, dog, and sheep on a rural path.

Hungarian Children Going to School

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, 1838

Lithograph of a young woman with a bird on her hand, leaning on a balustrade beside climbing roses and a column.

Young Girl with Bird

Dominique Vivant Denon, c. 1820

Etching of the Madonna nursing the Christ child on a stone step, with a halo and a finch flying at upper left.

Madonna and Child with a Finch

Simone Cantarini, 1635-36

Lithograph of young girls in traditional dress standing outdoors in a row beside a teacher with a book under a rustic wooden

School for Young Tartar Girls

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, 1841

Pen drawing of a woman in a headscarf carrying a child, with marching soldiers and a dog in the street behind her.

Woman and Child

Daniel Urrabieta Vierge, n.d.

Pen and ink sketch on salmon paper of a reclining figure on a bed beside vertical hatched curtains in an interior.

Girl Reading in Bed

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1882

Etching of a dead woman lying in bed while a distressed girl in a dark dress covers her face beside her.

The Dead Mother and Her Child

Edvard Munch, 1901

Woodcut broadside showing a man gesturing at three infants on a table, a woman in bed, and four scorpion-like creatures on th

A Woman Who Gave Birth to Three Children and Four Animals

José Guadalupe Posada, n.d.

Etching of a young girl with long hair seated in a chair, head bowed, hands folded in her lap.

Annie, Seated

James McNeill Whistler, 1858/59