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Art Institute of Chicago

3,361 works

Mughal miniature of a seated ruler under a green canopy with courtiers, a struggle, horses, and a fortress behind.

The Young Emperor Akbar Arrests the Insolent Shah Abu’l-Maali, Page from a Manuscript of the Akbarnama

Unknown artist, Mughal dynasty (1526-1857), c. 1590-1595

Seated woman in black gown with white ruff and pearls, holding a folding fan, before a gilded leather wall.

Marie de’ Medici

Frans Pourbus the Younger, 1616

Painting of a turbaned rider with a raised sword on a rearing grey horse fighting a lion in a dark landscape.

Arab Horseman Attacked by a Lion

Eugène Delacroix, 1849-50

Painting of a woman in a yellow dress beside a blossoming tree and a huqqa, set in a flowery landscape with a pink floral bor

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

Unknown artist, 18th century

Painting of a young woman with a coral hair ornament resting her arm on a table, holding an open book in her lap.

Interrupted Reading

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, c. 1870

Woman with a distaff walks a grassy hilltop beside grazing sheep and a large tree under a blue sky.

In the Auvergne

Jean-François Millet, c. 1866-69

Painting of a woman leaning on a brick well beside a child in blue, with a garden and farmhouses behind them.

Woman and Child at the Well

Camille Pissarro, 1882

Full-length portrait of a woman in a white gown and tiara standing by a bright window in a dark interior.

Mrs. Potter Palmer

Anders Zorn, 1893

Triptych of three haloed female saints with palm fronds, a tower model and gilded backgrounds under carved tracery arches.

Saints Apollonia, Barbara, and Agatha

Master Alejo, 1490-1500

Painting of two men in a dim room, one in a top hat playing an instrument, the other singing with open mouth.

Street Musicians

Style of Honoré Victorin Daumier, c. 1855

Portrait of a man in a dark uniform with red and gold embroidery, blue sash, medals, and gold-hilted sword.

Manuel Godoy

Agustín Esteve y Marques, 1800-8

Painting of a seated woman with headscarf beside a dark wooden cabinet, rendered in thick, textured brushwork.

Meditation (Seated Woman)

Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, c. 1878-79

Two saints with halos on gold ground in a Gothic gilded frame: a bishop with crozier and a bearded man holding keys.

Saints Augustine and Peter

Paolo Veneziano, c. 1350

Painting of a woman in a white dress holding hands with a young girl in pink against a dark background.

Dorothea and Francesca

Cecilia Beaux, 1898

Egyptian funerary papyrus with columns of hieroglyphs and a painted scene of a seated deity and a standing woman.

Funerary Papyrus of Tayuhenutmut

Egypt Egyptian; probably Thebes, Third Intermediate Period, probably Dynasty 21 (about 1069-945 BCE)

Half-length portrait of a young woman in a dark headscarf, green bodice and red drape against a dark background.

Portrait of a woman

Ferdinand Bol, c. 1655

Painting of the Virgin holding the infant Christ, with a kneeling angel and a landscape seen through an arched window.

Virgin and Child with an Angel

Sandro Botticelli, 1475-85

Half-length portrait of a young man in a wide-brimmed hat, dark velvet coat and white lace collar against a dark background.

Nicolas Rubens, the Artist's Son

Attributed to Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1635

Painting of Christ crucified on a wooden cross against a dark background, wearing a white loincloth, head bowed.

The Crucifixion

Francisco de Zurbarán, 1627

Painting of two seated women in a dim interior with a red background, one in a dark dress and one in gray-green.

Portrait of Mme Lisle and Mme Loubens

Edgar Degas, c. 1867

Three men drink at a green table beside a green jug, with a child in the lower left and factory chimneys behind them.

The Drinkers

Vincent van Gogh, 1890

Painting of a young man in a dark robe praying at a book, with a river landscape through a window and red carnations.

Portrait of a Donor (recto); Saint Anthony of Padua (verso)

Hans Memling, c. 1485

Oval miniature portrait of a gentleman in a powdered wig and grey coat, set in a blue enamel frame.

Portrait of a Gentleman

Ozias Humphry, c. 1770

Oval miniature portrait of a man with powdered hair in a red coat and white cravat, set in a gold pendant with braided hair.

Portrait of an Officer

Attributed to Richard Crosse, c. 1765

Oval miniature portrait of a man with powdered hair, white cravat and brown coat against a pale blue background, in a gold fr

Portrait of General William Loftus, M. P.

Andrew Plimer, c. 1790

Oval miniature portrait of a grey-haired man in a brown coat and white cravat against a blue sky, in a metal frame.

Portrait of Benjamin Hopkinson

Unknown artist, c. 1703 (?)

Oval miniature portrait of a man with grey curly hair in a blue coat and white cravat against a light blue background.

Portrait of a Gentleman in Blue Coat

Sebastien Gratise, Late 18th century

Miniature painting of two women in a wooded landscape by a stream, in an ornate gilt rococo frame.

Figures in a Landscape

Jacques Clauce, c. 1750

Oil portrait of a seated man in a red coat and white wig, holding a quill pen over paper at a desk by a window.

Sir Thomas Rumbold, Bt.

Joshua Reynolds, 1788

Oval miniature portrait of a young woman with curled hair in a blue dress and lace collar, in a gold frame.

Portrait of a Woman

Anna Claypoole Peale, 1818