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Art Institute of Chicago

769 works

Brown ink sketch of a young boy with bowed head, leaning over a table as he writes or draws.

Boy Writing or Sketching

Thomas Jones Barker, c. 1830

Grey wash drawing of nude putti and baby satyrs playing with a donkey in a wooded landscape.

Baby Satyrs and Putti Playing with Donkey

Jacob de Wit, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of fleeing figures and fallen children below two archers in clouds, with a classical city behind.

Death of Niobe's Children

Possibly after Marten de Vos, 1552/1725

Little Girl Standing at Desk and Writing

Edmund Thomas Parris, c. 1827

Soft-toned print of a young woman with dark hair gazing upward, face emerging from shadow against a pale background.

Girl's Face, from Spring Fresco of Jusélius Mausoleum

Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1905

Etching of a thatched rural cottage with children and a woman in the foreground and a figure walking near trees.

Cottage with Five Children

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1911

Etching of three women in early 1900s dress, one standing and two seated on grass beneath trees.

Three Girls

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, 1909

Etching of an older woman in a long dress tending to a seated, unclothed child who rests a foot on a stool.

Grandmother and Child

Suzanne Valadon, 1908

Black chalk sketch of a mother with two small children in a cluttered domestic interior with a dog and hanging pots.

Domestic Scene: Mother with Two Small Children before a Mantelpiece

François Boucher, n.d.

Pen and brown ink sketch of a girl's head framed by dark hatched strokes on a pale sheet.

Head of a Girl

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1882

Color woodcut of two boys bathing: one stands nude on a yellow rock, another swims in green water under pale clouds.

Boys Bathing

Edvard Munch, 1899

Engraving of the Virgin nursing the Christ Child by a window with a castle view, a chair and table in the room.

Virgin and Child by the Window

Barthel Beham, n.d.

Watercolor of a woman in black and a small girl in white leaning at a balcony railing over a distant domed city.

On the Balcony

Berthe Morisot, 1871/72

Etching of a woman and children pulling a wooden wagon along a road beside a fence and a large tree.

The Heritage of the Wagon (The Children with the Wagon)

Charles-François Daubigny, 1861

Pen and red chalk sketch of the Holy Family with a child and a kneeling young boy, plus an older man at left.

Holy Family with the Infant Saint John

Valerio Castello, n.d.

Etching of a reclining woman with a child beside her, set against a dark, hatched background.

Reclining Woman with a Child

Domenico Morelli, 1890/99

Etching of a man fishing from a small covered boat on a river, with church spires and trees in the distance.

The Ship's Boy Fishing (Fishing with a Line)

Charles-François Daubigny, 1861

Lace Valentine card with two children embracing beside a swan, dark birds, and painted pink and blue flowers.

Untitled Valentine (Children, Swans, and Butterflies)

John Windsor, 1860/69

Gilt lace valentine card with a central scene of a woman holding a goat beside a child and cottage, framed by flowers.

Untitled Valentine (Country Girls with Dog)

John Windsor, c. 1873