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Art Institute of Chicago

769 works

Painting of the Virgin holding the infant Christ as young John the Baptist reaches up with a reed cross before red drapery.

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Jacopo Bassano, 1560-65

Painting of a stormy alpine valley with avalanche and rushing snow, dark cliffs, and tiny figures in the foreground.

Valley of Aosta: Snowstorm, Avalanche, and Thunderstorm

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1836-37

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, kneeling king in gold robe, and riders in a rocky landscape.

The Adoration of the Magi

Workshop of Cornelis Engebrechtsz, 1515-25

A woman in a striped dress bathes a small child's feet in a white basin beside a pitcher on a patterned rug.

The Child's Bath

Mary Cassatt, 1893

Painting of the Grand Canal in Venice with a domed church, gondolas, sailing boats, and figures on the quay under a cloudy sk

The Grand Canal, Venice

Francesco Guardi, c. 1760

Painting of robed figures and cherubs on clouds under a dark sky, with an angel and a bearded harpist in a lunette compositio

Old Testament Figures in Paradise

Attributed to Francisco Bayeu y Subías, 1751-60

Painting of a woman in a headscarf feeding chickens while a child clings to her skirt beside a straw pile.

Woman Feeding Chickens

Jean-François Millet, 1846-48

Old man with raised knife above a kneeling boy on a ruined stone altar, with a donkey and servant in the foreground.

Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac

David Teniers the Younger, 1654-56

Painting of an 18th-century festival crowd in elegant dress, with garlands, a jumping dog, and spectators on a wooden platfor

Festival in Piazza Navona

Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1729

Peasants carry a newborn calf on straw past a cow and a stone farmhouse, with children watching from the doorway.

Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields

Jean-François Millet, 1864

Crowded prison interior with a official reading a list among prisoners, families and a guard beneath an arched barred doorway

The Roll Call of the Last Victims of the Terror

Charles-Louis-Lucien Müller, c. 1850

Portrait of a seated woman in a brown dress with her young daughter in white, holding strawberries, before a green sofa.

Elizabeth Grant Bankson Beatty (Mrs. James Beatty) and Her Daughter Susan

Joshua Johnson, c. 1805

Loose oil sketch of a young woman with tousled brown hair, dark jacket and blue neck ribbon, against a warm ground.

Study of a Girl's Head and Shoulders

James McNeill Whistler, 1896-97

Sepia sketch of nude youths and young women in a classical outdoor scene with a temple and tree trunks.

Young Spartan Girls Challenging Boys

Edgar Degas, c. 1860

Painting of a bishop halting an armored ruler in red cloak at a church doorway, with crowds and soldiers in the foreground.

Theodosius Repulsed from the Church by Saint Ambrose

Alessandro Magnasco, c. 1705

Life Study (Study of an Egyptian Girl)

John Singer Sargent, 1891

Oval miniature of a young boy in a red lace-collared garment and blue sash with a star badge, in a gilt frame.

Portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1688-1766)

Nicolas Prévost, 1692

Painting of the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child on a pedestal, with halos, a white dove, and a cloudy sky behind them.

Virgin and Child Enthroned

Girolamo da Santacroce, 1516

Two-panel gilded icon: enthroned Virgin and Child on the left, Crucifixion with mourners and angels on the right.

Diptych of the Virgin and Child Enthroned and the Crucifixion

Eastern Mediterranean or Italian, c. 1280

Painting of the Virgin Mary in a blue mantle holding the nude infant Christ against a red cloth backdrop.

Virgin and Child

Workshop of Rogier van der Weyden, c. 1460

Triptych with the Virgin and Child surrounded by female saints in a garden, with standing saints on the side panels.

Triptych of the Virgin and Child with Saints

Unknown artist, c. 1510

Painting of a ruined stone archway with figures in a street, weathered walls, scaffolding and a cloudy sky.

Ruined Archway

Francesco Guardi, 1775-93

Painting of a young man playing a flageolet beside an elderly woman reading music in a dim tavern interior.

The Flageolet Player

David Teniers the Younger, 1635/40

Arched altarpiece of the Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Hyacinth, with a kneeling monk offering a monstrance.

Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Hyacinth

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1730-35

Young woman in gold silk dress pointing at an ornate gilded mirror beside a patterned table, with a red curtain behind her.

Girl Standing before a Mirror

Caspar Netscher, 1668

Painting of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ, with a curly-haired young Saint John peering from the left.

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Circle of Agnolo Bronzino, c. 1530

Miniature portrait of a young child in a white bonnet and dress, gazing upward beside pink drapery and a chair.

Portrait of Edmund Rodney Pollesfen Bastard (1825-1856)

William Ross, c. 1830

Nativity scene: kneeling Mary and Joseph beside the infant Christ, with angels above and a hilltop town behind.

The Nativity

Fra' Bartolomeo, 1504-7

Ethiopian painted triptych with Virgin and Child centre, angels, saints, and riders slaying a dragon on the side panels.

Triptych

Central Ethiopia, Late 17th century

Painting of Saint Luke sketching the Virgin and Christ Child beside a green canopy bed, with a figure in an open doorway.

Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin and Christ Child

Girolamo da Carpi, c. 1535