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Art Institute of Chicago

657 works

Painted altarpiece sketch with a monstrance held by angels, musician angels, kneeling saints and clergy in gilded architectur

The Adoration of the Eucharist

Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1626

Painting of a white lattice bridge over a stream, framed by pale green spring trees and shrubs along the bank.

The White Bridge

John Henry Twachtman, after 1895

Frontal half-length portrait of a bearded man with red hair and a dark jacket against a pale yellow-green background.

James Vibert, Sculptor

Ferdinand Hodler, 1907

Painting of a woman nursing an infant beside a stone bench, with playing children, red and blue drapery, and a white bird.

Allegory of Charity

Francesco de Mura, c. 1743-44

Painting of brown-sailed boats in calm shallow water under dramatic clouds, with fishermen working on the shore.

Coast Scene

Attributed to Reinier Nooms, c. 1655

Painting of white houses on a rocky slope overlooking a turquoise bay with white sailboats under a hazy sky.

New England Headlands

Childe Hassam, 1899

Two winged cherubs embrace on a brown cloud against a blue sky, in a circular painted composition.

Cherubs Floating on a Cloud

Italian or Spanish, 17th century

Miss Schaum

Jacob Eichholtz, 1808-10

Circular painting of the Virgin holding the Christ Child, flanked by two red-robed winged angels on pedestals among trees.

Virgin and Child with Two Angels

Sandro Botticelli, 1485-95

Painting of the Virgin kneeling in prayer beside the Christ Child, attended by angels and a seated figure in a green hillside

The Adoration of the Christ Child

Vincenzo Frediani, c. 1490

Black and white view of a rooster, ducks and hens beneath a tree, with a flying duck and village spire in the distance.

Birds in Landscape

Marmaduke Cradock, Date unknown

Abstract painting by Kandinsky with a large green central shape, red and blue forms, and sweeping black and white lines.

Painting with Green Center

Wassily Kandinsky, 1913

Loose painting of ballet dancers in white tutus leaping across a stage, rendered in green, blue and yellow brushstrokes.

Ballet Dancers

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1885-86

Miniature portrait of a man with gray hair in a blue coat and red cravat, set in a gold filigree frame with pearls.

Man of the Hunter Family

Edward Greene Malbone, 1803

Circular painting of an elderly bearded man with a knife above a reclining youth as an angel descends from the clouds.

Sacrifice of Isaac

School of Johann Liss, the younger, 1600-50

Tempera painting of Phaeton driving a chariot of white horses over a night sky above a walled city and figures.

Phaeton Driving the Chariot of Phoebus

Northern Italian; possibly Verona, 1475-1500

Painting of a sunlit seaside with turquoise waves over rocks, a grassy bluff, and people near a red-roofed pavilion.

Bailey's Beach, Newport, R.I.

Childe Hassam, 1901

Circular painting of an elderly bearded man with two women, one pouring wine into a cup, against a cloudy sky.

Lot and his Daughters

School of Johann Liss, the younger, 1600-50

Painting of nude women and a stag with hounds and hunters in a dark, stormy landscape with cypress trees.

Diana and Actaeon

Jacopo Bassano, 1585-92

Medieval painting of Christ in a crown of thorns carrying a cross through a crowd of soldiers and onlookers, with crucifixion

Christ Carrying the Cross

Master of the Freising Visitation, c. 1490

Painting of the Virgin and Christ Child with haloed saints, a golden chalice, and a kneeling female donor in prayer.

The Holy Family with Four Saints and a Female Donor

Antonio Rimpatta, c. 1510

Two Lawyers

Honoré Daumier, c. 1860

Gold-ground panel of a haloed saint praying beside a crowned king, with an angel above a spiked wheel and a kneeling figure b

Saint Catherine Delivered from the Wheel

Unknown artist, c. 1395

Travelers with a mule and dog trudge through a snowstorm, bent over under cloaks beside bare, wind-blown trees.

Winter Scene

Francisco Goya, c. 1786

Oval painting of the Virgin and Child with young John the Baptist, Saint Cecilia, and angels against a dark background.

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist, Saint Cecilia, and Angels

Piero di Cosimo, c. 1505

Medieval painting of the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child in a red mantle, with Saint Joseph seated beside a Gothic windo

Holy Family

Unknown artist, c. 1450

Geometric abstract painting of black grid lines with gray and red rectangles on a white ground.

Composition (No. 1) Gray-Red

Piet Mondrian, 1935

Pencil and watercolor landscape of a curving road past trees and hillside, washed in pale green, pink and ochre.

Road in Provence

Paul Cézanne, c. 1885

Illuminated initial E with a seated bearded saint surrounded by female saints and other figures, in red, green and gold.

Saints Barbara, Catherine, Andrew, John the Baptist, Lawrence and Thomas à Beckett in a Historiated Initial "E" from…

Unknown artist, 1460/70

Etching of a thatched cottage and garden with seated figures, a vine, and a distant village with a church spire.

The Nest

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1909