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Art Institute of Chicago

24,211 works

Pen and brown wash drawing of a woman with raised arm and two cherubs behind her, with grass and clouds in a landscape.

Woman in Flight

Attributed to Carlo Cignani, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin Mary ascending among angels while robed apostles look up from below.

Assumption of the Virgin

After Giacinto Calandrucci, after 1703

Loose sketch of fashionable men and women strolling past a street lamp, one man in a top hat, one woman in a feathered hat.

Promenade

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1899

Brown wash drawing of satyrs, a satyress and putti on a spandrel beneath a fruit garland, on blue-grey paper.

Study for Spandrel Decoration with Satyress, Satyrs, and Putti (recto); Head of Putto (verso)

Paolo Farinati, c. 1588

The Dead Girl

Jean-Louis Forain, 1884

Pen and wash drawing of clergy in procession beside an arched bridge, with marching soldiers and cavalry on a hill.

Pope Visiting Construction Site of a Bridge

Possibly attributed to Ciro Ferri, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of an oval spandrel with mythological figures flanked by a bearded man and a seated youth in scrollwork.

Spandrel with Rape of Orytheia Flanked by Hercules and Omphale

Possibly after Ciro Ferri, n.d.

Loose graphite sketch of a robed standing figure beside a winged figure and faint architectural lines.

Unidentified Biblical Scene (recto); Sketches (verso)

Possibly Ciro Ferri, n.d.

Pen and brown wash drawing of a seated female saint with flower wreath beside a crucifix, rocky landscape behind her.

Saint Dorothy Praying in Desert

probably after Ciro Ferri, n.d.

Pen and brown wash drawing of worshippers and an oracle before a many-breasted statue on a pedestal, with candelabra overhead

Oracle and Worshippers before the Statue of Artemis of Ephesus

Follower of Battista Franco, called Il Semolei, n.d.

Kneeling Man Approaching Another Figure

Attributed to or after Pier Leone Ghezzi, n.d.

Pen and ink sketch of a bearded god with an eagle on clouds beside a winged youth in a hat.

Jupiter and Mercury in the Clouds

Possibly Giacinto Gimignani, n.d.

Pastel winter scene of a river winding between melting snowbanks, with dark evergreens reflected in the water.

Melting Snow

Frits Thaulow, 1887

Engraving of soldiers seizing a bearded man in a crowd, within a Gothic arched frame, with onlookers and a fallen lantern.

Christ Taken Captive

Master I. A. M. of Zwolle, c. 1480

Sepia and white-highlighted drapery study showing a heaped cloth with soft folds against a shaded background.

Draperies

Andrea Carlo Lucchesi, c. 1877

Brown ink and wash drawing of winged figures and a nude figure in a landscape with trees and ruins.

Mythological Scene

Possibly a follower of Pietro da Cortona, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a crowd with soldiers, women, children and a dog beside a column and a banner reading SPQR.

Triumphs of Julius Caesar: Canvas No. VII

after Andrea Mantegna, 18th century

Red chalk drawing of a seated woman holding balance scales and a sword, gazing upward.

Justice

Attributed to Edme Bouchardon, n.d.

Pen and brown ink sketch of a seated Madonna holding the Christ child, with loose drapery lines on a cream sheet.

Madonna and Child

Possbily after Carlo Maratti, n.d.

Woman's Profile to Right

Style of Camillo Procaccini, n.d.

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of a nude bound man flanked by two figures, with head studies above.

Study for the Flagellation of Christ

called Palma il Giovane Jacopo Negretti, c. 1602

Red chalk sketch of multiple figures around a pool, with standing, kneeling and reclining studies on pale paper.

The Miraculous Pool at Bethesda

Possibly Andrea Celesti, n.d.

Triptych woodblock print of three kabuki actors in costume: an armored warrior with a torch, a woman in a patterned robe, and

Bando Mitsugoro III as Minamoto no Yorimasa (right), Segawa Kikunojo V as Ayame no Mae (center), and Ichikawa Danjuro…

Utagawa Kunisada I, c. 1820

Brown ink and wash drawing of ruined Roman arches, a stone sarcophagus, a standing woman and small figures among vegetation.

Roman Ruins and Two Figures

Attributed to Giovanni Paolo Pannini, n.d.

Pen and ink sketches of five ornate column capitals and bases on aged paper, with scrolls and fluted shafts.

Sketches of Corinthian Capitals

Possibly after Giovanni Paolo Pannini, n.d.

Profile Head of a Soldier with Helmet

Attributed to Gabriele Caliari, 1588/96

Pen and wash drawing of winged St. Michael with a spear standing over a writhing devil on a tinted paper.

St. Michael Archangel and the Devil

After Guido Reni, n.d.

Engraving of a satyr-like Jupiter leaning over a sleeping nude woman, with a reclining Cupid and bow and arrows in front.

Jupiter and Antiope

René Boyvin, 1550/59

Two loose black crayon sketches on pale paper: an older woman's head and shoulders above, and a standing woman in a hat below

Two Sketches

James McNeill Whistler, 1878/79

Woodblock print of pack horses and a handler crossing a rainy plain beside bending willow trees and village rooftops.

No. 20: Rain on the Hiratsuka Plain near Kutsukake Station (Niju: Kutsukake no eki, Hiratsukahara uchu no kei), from…

Keisai Eisen, c. 1835/36