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Art Institute of Chicago

24,211 works

Black and white print of seated figures beside a bright flame in a dark night scene, by Paul Gauguin.

Mahna no varua ino (The Devil Speaks), from the Noa Noa Suite

Paul Gauguin, 1893/94, printed and published in 1921

Pencil portrait of a young man seated at a piano, turning to look at the viewer, with Don Juan sheet music on the stand.

Charles Gounod

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1841

Brown wash drawing of a wounded turbaned man lying on a bed while a seated figure in a cap watches beside him.

Military Hospital

Eugène Delacroix, c. 1824

Woodcut of Hercules wrestling a many-headed serpent, the Lernean Hydra, among dark rocks.

Hercules Killing the Lernean Hydra, from Scenes from the Life of Hercules

Gabriel Salmon, c. 1528

Woodcut of Hercules, a nude muscular man, wrestling a large boar among tree trunks.

The Labors of Hercules: Hercules Subduing the Erymanthian Boar

Gabriel Salmon, c. 1528

Woodcut of Hercules wrestling a bull by its horn, with trees and dense hatched lines behind the figures.

The Labors of Hercules: Hercules Capture of the Cretan Bull

Gabriel Salmon, c. 1528

Woodcut of Hercules, seen from behind, wrestling the three-headed dog Cerberus beside a cave opening.

The Labors of Hercules: Bringing Cerberus from the Lower World

Gabriel Salmon, c. 1528

Woodcut of two nude men wrestling, one lifting the other, with a rocky cliff, distant town and fire.

The Labors of Hercules: Hercules and Antaeus

Gabriel Salmon, c. 1528

Woodcut of muscular Hercules wrestling Cacus with a draped woman behind him and ornamental scrollwork below.

The Labors of Hercules: Hercules and Cacus

Gabriel Salmon, c. 1528

Woodcut of nude Hercules fighting armored giants with a club and shield, surrounded by fallen helmets and armor.

Hercules and the Giants, from Scenes from the Life of Hercules

Gabriel Salmon, c. 1528

Woodcut of Hercules raising a club among two satyrs and a woman, with dense hatching and a dragon in the background.

Hercules, Two Satyrs, and a Woman, plate two from The Labors of Hercules

Gabriel Salmon, c. 1528

Woodcut of a muscular bearded man rising from flames and clouds, surrounded by arrows and a club, Hercules on the pyre.

The Labors of Hercules: Hercules on the Pyre

Gabriel Salmon, c. 1528

Red chalk drawing of gods Jupiter and Neptune with eagle, horses and putti presenting a heraldic shield in clouds.

Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto Paying Homage to the Coat of Arms of Cardinal Borghese

Simone Cantarini, early 1640s

Pencil sketch of a garden fountain topped by a putto statue, with trees and shrubs behind, by Hans Thoma.

Fountain with Putti in the Garden of the Villa Borghese

Hans Thoma, 1880

Red chalk landscape drawing of a hilltop castle with towers, cottages, trees and small figures in the foreground.

Landscape with a Castle

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1716/18

Pencil and watercolor landscape of a pale mountain above a valley with farms, viaduct arches, and pine branches in the foregr

Montagne Sainte-Victoire (The Arc Valley)

Paul Cézanne, c. 1885

Hand-colored print of jockeys racing horses across a field past a hedgerow, with spectators and a farmhouse at right.

Saint Albans Steeplechase

Reeves, 1837

Etching of Florence's Palazzo Vecchio with tall clock tower, arched windows, and figures walking in the street below.

Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, 1909

Etching of a narrow street under an arched gateway with a madonna statue, a seated beggar and children in the foreground.

Calle del Paradiso

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, 1909

Hand-colored print of horse riders jumping a hedge in a steeplechase, with a fallen rider and spectators in a tree.

Saint Albans Steeplechase

Charles Hunt, 1837

Etching of an elderly bearded man with hand on chin, with classical figures and a column in the background.

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Portrait and Composition

Marcellin Gilbert Desboutin, 1895

Lithograph of pedestrians in period dress looking at prints displayed in the window of Delpech's print shop on a cobbled stre

Delpech's Print Shop

Carle Vernet, 1818

Brown ink and wash drawing of muscular Hercules standing on a hydra, leaning on a club, with sketches at right.

The Triumphant Hercules with the Vanquished Hydra

Guercino, c. 1618

Pen and ink drawing of a sailing boat with a sail marked LEPIC and a rowboat on calm water, inside a circle.

Plate Design for E. Leveille

Ludovic Napoléon Lepic, 1886/89

Etching of a factory marked Fabrique des Cuirs Forts beside a road with a horse cart under a stormy sky.

Demolition of the Rue des Francs-Bourgeois Saint Marcel

Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1873

Portrait of Maximillian Luce in 1887

Georges Manzana-Pissarro, 1887

Caricature drawing of a man with a large head, curly hair and side whiskers, standing with hands on hips, in chalk.

Caricature of a Man

Étienne Carjat, n.d.

Woodcut of a lamentation scene with a nude body across a mourning woman's lap, a ladder behind, nails and a jar below.

The Lamentation

Hans Baldung Grien, c. 1514

Pencil drawing of a sunlit path winding through a wood, with tall trees and dense shadowed foliage on both sides.

A Sunlit Path through a Wood

Thomas Gainsborough, 1750/59

Watercolor of a waterfall between rocky cliffs, with small figures, a ruined building on the right and a distant town.

Waterfall

Louis Gabriel Moreau, 1788