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Art Institute of Chicago

24,211 works

Engraving of archangel Michael standing on a dragon with a sword and palm, surrounded by cherub heads and clouds.

St Michael Triumphing Over the Dragon

Hieronymus Wierix, 1584

Sapper of the Swiss Guards

Johann Georg Wille, 1779

Woodblock print of a courtesan in a floral kimono with a white horse and scroll in the upper right corner.

Courtesan Likened to the Chinese Sage Zhang Guolao (Japanese: Chokaro)

Okumura Masanobu, c. 1715

Engraving of a crowned woman bending over a dying man on a bed, with a grieving attendant behind them in shadowed drapery.

Death of Mark Antony

Johann Georg Wille, 1778

Woodblock print of a standing figure in a patterned kimono with carp motifs, holding a large straw hat.

The Actor Onoe Kikugoro I as Soga no Goro

Okumura Masanobu, c. 1744

Woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono with cherry blossoms, holding a battledore paddle and looking down.

Yaoya Oshichi holding a battledore paddle

Okumura Masanobu, c. 1744/51

Triptych woodblock print of women and a child gathering shellfish at low tide, with a boat and pine trees.

Gathering shell fish at low tide

Utagawa Toyokuni, c. 1789/1801

Pencil drawing of a standing nude youth with bowed head, one arm resting on a support, legs crossed at the ankles.

Study of a Standing Nude Youth

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1820

Graphite study on tan paper of raised arms, hands, and a female torso with arms overhead.

Study for The Festival

Edward Poynter, 1871

Woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono writing a letter before a folding screen, with a writing box nearby.

Woman Writing a Letter in Front of a Screen

Ishikawa Toyonobu, early 1740s

Watercolor design of a green salamander on rocks in a shell-shaped frame, with a yellow sunburst over blue sea.

Untitled Drawing for Frame Cartouche (Salamander)

Theodore Roussel, 1899/1908

Vertical Japanese print of a young woman in a yellow kimono with Hotei, the bald bearded figure, leaning behind her.

Young Woman and Hotei

Ishikawa Toyonobu, c. 1741

Woodblock print of a standing woman in a richly patterned kimono with a black fan, in yellow and cream tones.

The Yoshiwara in Edo - A Set of Three (Edo Yoshiwara sanpukutsui)

Ishikawa Toyonobu, c. 1736/44

Grey wash drawing of people in period dress walking a tree-lined avenue past low buildings and a fence, sign reading Champs-E

Relais, Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris (recto); Scene from the Life of Odysseus (verso)

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1812

Woodblock print of a standing young man in a patterned kimono holding an umbrella and a paper lantern, wearing geta sandals.

The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as a young man holding an umbrella and a lantern

Ishikawa Toyonobu, c. 1748

Seated Man in Profile

Mariano Fortuny Marsal, 1869

Woodblock print of a young woman in a patterned kimono holding a striped umbrella, with her head bowed.

Young Woman with Umbrella

Ishikawa Toyonobu, c. 1740s

Woodblock print of a courtesan in a floral kimono holding a long pipe, with striped sleeves and a gold hair ornament.

Courtesan Holding a Long Pipe

Ishikawa Toyonobu, c. 1743

Sepia etching of a river valley with a distant aqueduct, a domed palace terrace on the right, and figures in the foreground.

View from Palace Terrace at Saint Germain on Laye, from Twenty Views in Paris and its Environs

Thomas Girtin, published 1802

Woodblock print of a courtesan in a patterned kimono holding a paper lantern and a fan, with a lowered gaze.

A Courtesan Holding a Lantern and a Fan

Ishikawa Toyonobu, c. 1745

Woodblock print of a standing woman in a floral kimono reading a handwritten scroll, with an ornate hair pin.

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo I as a courtesan

Ishikawa Toyonobu, c. 1747

Engraving of Hercules with a clothed woman, a satyr and nude figures among trees, with a castle on a hill behind.

Hercules at the Crossroads

Albrecht Dürer, c. 1498

Engraving of a peasant man and woman at market, she holds a rooster and a basket of eggs sits at their feet.

The Peasant and His Wife at Market

Albrecht Dürer, 1519

Woodblock print of a standing woman in a richly patterned kimono, holding a letter and fan, with an ornate hair ornament.

Standing Geisha

Ishikawa Toyonobu, c. 1748

Hand-colored Japanese print of a procession with parasols, a palanquin and kimono-clad figures walking across two sheets.

Parade of the Puppets

Okumura Masanobu, c. 1700

Two goats beside a flowering branch in an arched frame, with Arabic calligraphy above and below on an Iranian manuscript page

Two Goats from Manafi' al-Hayawan (On the Usefulness of Animals) of Ibn Bakhtishu'

Unknown artist, c.1300

Print of a standing man in a fur-trimmed robe beside a Terminus bust inside an ornate arched architectural frame with satyrs

Erasmus of Rotterdam

Veit Specklin, c. 1538/40

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in patterned kimono holding a flowering branch, with a sword and wide hat.

The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu l as a young man

Torii Kiyoshige, c. 1742

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a patterned kimono holding a sword, with calligraphy at upper left.

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro II as Fuwa Banzaemon in the play "Monzukushi Nagoya Soga," performed at the Ichimura Thea…

Torii Kiyoshige, 1748

Vertical woodblock print of a woman in a striped kimono and a man holding cloth beside a black lacquer box.

The Actors Segawa Kikunojo III as Okoma (right), and Arashi Sangoro III as the Hairdresser Obana Saizaburo (left), in…

Katsukawa Shunshō, c. 1776