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Art Institute of Chicago

2,141 works

Brown wash drawing of a wooded landscape with a road winding through hills and a small figure on a donkey.

Landscape of Road through Trees and Hills; Figure on Donkey in Distance

Style of Jan Hackaert, 1638/1710

Triptych print of women and a child on a riverbank at night, with a wooden bridge and boats on the river behind them.

Women watching fireworks at Sumida River

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1795/96

Engraving of shepherds resting under an oak with sheep, beside a hilltop town and distant mountains.

Shepherds in a Landscape

Giulio Campagnola, c. 1517

Etching of a rural road past a thatched cottage, rolling wooded hills, and a twisted tree, with two small figures walking.

The Cornfield (Rembrandt Manner)

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, 1764

Brown ink drawing of a standing flayed male figure showing muscles, with a sketched hilltop landscape behind him.

Écorché before Landscape (recto); Sketches of Standing Male Nude, Seated Child, Stooping Woman (verso)

After Jan Stephan van Calcar, n.d.

Etching of jagged mountain peaks rising through billowing clouds, with dense hatched lines shading the sky and slopes.

Mountain Peaks

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, 1908

Brown ink sketch of birds and animals around a dead tree branch, with a dog and stork on the ground below.

Birds and Animals around a Dead Tree

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, n.d.

Monochrome lithograph of a large twisted tree beside a wooden footbridge, with two figures standing at the left edge.

Tree and Footbridge

Francis Nicholson, 1820

Etching of Tuscan hills with cypress trees, stone buildings, rolling fields and a lone walking figure.

In the Tuscan Hills

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, 1909

Engraving of the river god Peneus with daughter Daphne, beside three nude nymphs carrying water jugs near rocks and trees.

Daphne Embracing her Father, the River Peneus

Master of the Die, n.d.

Lithograph of a misty lake surrounded by rocky cliffs and distant mountains, with a small boat on the water.

Lake of the Four Forest Cantons

Alexandre Calame, n.d.

Lithograph of figures in hats walking across a green meadow under a streaked blue sky, with a tall slender tree on the right.

Across the Fields, plate three from Landscapes and Interiors

Edouard Jean Vuillard, 1899

Etching of a rugged rocky ridge with jagged cliffs and sparse scrub under a pale sky, titled Superstition Mountain, 1921.

Superstition Mountain

Wallace L. DeWolf, 1921

Pen and ink sketch of a river falling through a wooded valley with steep mountains and a small building in the foreground.

The Fall of the River Tumble (recto); View of Fastraly (verso)

Attributed to Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1797

Grey wash landscape drawing of a cottage, trees, grazing cows and a woman walking on a path under a cloudy sky.

Landscape with Woman and Cows (recto); Sketch of a Landscape (verso)

Richard Wilson, n.d.

Black chalk drawing of a bearded standing magus in flowing robes holding an ornate vessel aloft.

Standing Magus (recto); Sketch of Stable and Trees (verso)

Peditrobably Domenico Fiasella, n.d.

Pen and ink sketch of Aeneas in armor with a woman, surrounded by draped figures gesturing in a hatched landscape.

Aeneas in the Elysian Fields (recto); Sketches of Groups of Figures (verso)

Raymond de Lafage, n.d.

Pen and brown ink sketch of Judith with a table, draped curtain, and studies of reclining river god figures below.

Judith with the Head of Holofernes and Sketches of River Gods (recto); Female Head, Looking Upwards (verso)

Recto possibly by Simone Cantarini, c. 1639

Watercolor landscape with bare trees, a man on a donkey on a dirt path, red roofs in the distance, and heavy clouds.

Landscape with Man on a Donkey (recto) Two Women in a Cafe (verso)

Johan Barthold Jongkind, c. 1849

Brown ink and wash drawing of the infant Hercules among serpents in a canopied interior with nude figures and an ornate chest

The Infant Hercules Strangling Serpents in His Cradle (recto); Crowned Woman Kneeling in Landscape, and Other Sketche…

Attributed to Prospero Fontana, n.d.

Charcoal sketch of a leaning tree and trees on a riverbank with distant hills under a loose, cloudy sky.

River Bank with Trees (recto); Herd of Cattle Beneath Trees, with Inset Sketch of Landscape (verso)

Possibly by John Constable, 1796/1837

Pencil sketch of a windmill on flat Dutch landscape with a distant windmill and rough figures in the foreground.

Landscape in Holland (recto); Sketch of Windmills by Water (verso)

Charles-François Daubigny, 1837/78

Pencil study of a columned church interior with a vaulted ceiling, gallery balcony, and ornate altarpiece at the far end.

Study for The Roman Catholic Chapel, Lincoln's Inn Fields, from Microcosm of London

Augustus Charles Pugin, c. 1808

Pencil sketch sheet with studies of horses and riders, a wooded landscape, and a cavalry battle scene.

Three Studies with Sketches of a Wooded Landscape and a Cavalry Battle

Théodore Géricault, 1813/14

Woodblock print of heavy rain over a grove of trees, with umbrella-carrying figures walking a path beside a wall.

Night Rain at the Paulownia Grove at Akasaka (Akasaka Kiribatake uchu yukei), from the series "One Hundred Famous Vie…

Utagawa Hiroshige II, 1859

Pencil perspective drawing of a prison interior with vaulted ceiling, a water engine and cold bath, and figures below.

Study for Water Engine, Cold-Bath, Field's Prison, from Microcosm of London

Augustus Charles Pugin, c. 1808

Pencil sketch sheet with a timber shed, a landscape of trees, a dog head, a reclining dog, and several figure studies.

Sketches of A Shed, A Landscape, Dogs and Various Figures

Théodore Géricault, 1813/14

Pastel sketch of a beach with sailboats on calm water and figures beside a beached boat under a pale sky.

Beach with Fishing Boats (recto); Landscape with Farmer Plowing a Field (verso)

Eugène-Louis Boudin, 1870/79

Pencil study of a riverside row of buildings with masted ships and rowboats on the Thames.

Study for Custom House, from the River Thames, from Microcosm of London

Augustus Charles Pugin, c. 1808

Pencil and wash sketches of trees, dogs and a pheasant in a wooded landscape, with arched panels at lower right.

Sketches of a Wooded Site, Dogs and Pheasants in Landscape

Théodore Géricault, 1813/14