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Art Institute of Chicago

781 works

Japanese woodblock print of women on a veranda watching a girl picking flowers in a garden under a pine and moon.

Women on the Veranda Looking at a Girl Picking Flower

Katsushika Hokusai, about 1790s

Pen and ink sketch of Saint Luke seated on clouds with a palette, painting near the Madonna and Child in the upper right.

Saint Luke Painting the Madonna and Child

François Lemoyne, n.d.

Pen sketch of a grieving woman raising drapery among women and fallen children, with figures in clouds above.

Niobe's Children, Slain by Apollo and Artemius

Attributed to Michel Dorigny, n.d.

Woodblock print of a seated woman watching a young girl in a kimono beside a red umbrella and painted screens.

Young girl dancing at nobleman's mansion

Katsushika Hokusai, 1805

Brown wash drawing of the Madonna and Child with a kneeling veiled woman, a monk with rosary, and a barefoot man.

Madonna and Child with Three Saints

Possibly after Pierre Subleyras, n.d.

Head of Girl Facing Left

Edward Burne-Jones, c. 1873-77

Daumier lithograph of a top-hatted man and a crowd in a Paris street, with a turbaned figure and onlookers on balconies.

“- Oh, my friend... I am afraid of these people there. - And rightly so... they are quite vicious, they beat their wo…

Honoré Daumier, 1859

Engraving of the Virgin and Child with young Saint John kneeling with a lamb, a bearded man and angels in the background.

Virgin and Child with Saint John

Diana Scultori, 1575

Etching of the Virgin Mary embracing the infant Christ, with a man with a staff walking in a landscape through an arched wind

Madonna and Child with Saint Joseph

Attributed to Ventura Salimbeni, before 1613

My Child

Odilon Redon, 1893

Young Woman Carrying Baby

Thomas Jones Barker, c. 1830

Red chalk study of the Madonna holding a sleeping Christ child, with a male saint leaning in beside her.

Madonna and Sleeping Christ Child with Male Saint

School of Carlo Maratti, n.d.

Child's Head With Flowers

Odilon Redon, 1897

Brown wash drawing of a woman raising a sword beside two children, with a winged serpent figure above in the clouds.

Medea Killing Her Children

Previously attributed to William Blake, 1777-1827

Brown ink and wash study of the Presentation of the Christ Child, with a bishop receiving the infant before an arched doorway

Study for the Presentation of the Christ Child in the Temple

After Giuseppe Porta, called Giuseppe Salviati, n.d.

Girl

Odilon Redon, 1887

Woman with Baby

Thomas Burke, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of a child's head turned upward, with curly hair and softly shaded features on pale paper.

Child's Head, Looking Upward

Possibly after Raphael Sanzio, called Raphael, 17th century

Sepia watercolor of a woman carrying a baby along a path under a stormy sky, with ruins on a distant hill.

Woman with Baby Fleeing Across Moors

Possibly John Constable, n.d.

Head of Boy Wearing Hat in Profile

Giovnni Battista Piazzetta, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin and Child with a kneeling Saint Anthony of Padua, cherubs, a book and a lily.

Madonna and Child with Saint Anthony of Padua

the younger Giovanni Battista Pittoni, n.d.

Graphite and wash drawing of a nude figure reclining asleep with arms raised behind the head on a cut sheet.

Nude Girl Asleep

II John Flaxman, n.d.

Black chalk drawing of a sleeping infant reclining on a cloth, head tilted back, one hand raised to the chest.

Sleeping Christ Child Holding Cross

Attributed to Carlo Cignani, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing of a kneeling saint before an altar, with an angel and cherub in a columned classical interior.

Saint Kneeling before Altar with Statue of Madonna and Child

Style of Sébastien Bourdon, n.d.

Pencil study of a child's head in three-quarter view with curling hair on a grey-green toned sheet.

Child's Head

Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, n.d.

Pen and ink sketch of a scruffy boy seated gnawing on a bone, with handwritten caption 'The Boy at the Gnaw' and signature.

The Boy at the Gnaw

Frederick Barnard, n.d.

Brown wash sketch of a seated boy, half-length, head bowed and one hand raised, on cream paper.

Seated Boy, Half-Length

Thomas Jones Barker, c. 1830

Pencil drawing with red chalk of a shepherd boy resting in woods beside lambs and a standing sheep.

Shepherd Boy with Lambs in Woods

George Morland, n.d.

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of a standing young woman in a long skirt, head turned to the left, on tan paper.

Girl

Attributed to William Mulready, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a young boy with lowered head turned sideways, shown half-length on cream paper.

Boy Turning Sideways, Half-Length

Thomas Jones Barker, c. 1830