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Art Institute of Chicago

3,361 works

Etching of an elderly bearded man with head tilted down, eyes glancing aside, rendered in fine hatched lines.

Man's Head

Anne Claude Philippe Caylus, n.d.

Drawing of a barefoot woman seated on the ground, reading a sheet held in both hands, in grey chalk with white highlights.

Barefoot Woman Seated on Ground

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, n.d.

Etching of a forest landscape with a large tree at left and two horsemen with dogs on a path at lower right.

The Two Horsemen

Anthonie Waterloo, n.d.

Head of a Black Man in Profile

Anne Claude Philippe Caylus, n.d.

Pen and brown ink sketch of the dead Christ supported by figures, with studies of heads and drapery on blue paper.

Dead Christ Supported by Holy Women and Angels

Circle of Lelio Orsi, n.d.

Etching of a wooded landscape with a path, large trees, a stream with wading figures, and distant hills under clouds.

Man and Woman Crossing a Stream

Anthonie Waterloo, n.d.

Etching of a man's head turned to the left, with curly hair and a ruffled collar, on a plain background.

Man's Head (turned to left)

Anne Claude Philippe Caylus, n.d.

Woodblock print of a crowded ferry on a river with a wooden bridge and Mount Fuji in the distance at dusk.

Viewing Sunset over the Ryogoku Bridge from the Onmaya Embankment (Onmayagashi yori Ryogokubashi sekiyo o miru), from…

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1830/33

Etching of a winding path through a dense wooded hollow with two small figures near the center and a distant village.

Two Men in the Hollow

Anthonie Waterloo, n.d.

Etched portrait of a woman in a bonnet and draped collar, head turned to the right, with plate numbers in the corners.

Woman's Head (turned to right)

Anne Claude Philippe Caylus, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowned king on a throne judging a child before a crowd, with a kneeling woman at lower right

Judgement of Solomon

Attributed to Abraham Jansz. van Diepenbeeck, n.d.

Pencil drawing of mourners carrying a nude body in a shroud, with kneeling women and a sketched tree line behind.

Entombment

Michael Köck, 1792

Engraved print of a woman's head turned to the left, with upswept hair and a ruffled lace collar.

Woman's Head (turned to left)

Anne Claude Philippe Caylus, n.d.

Etching of an elderly woman in a white bonnet seated at work in a dim, cluttered room seen through a doorway.

The Old Woman with Rags

James McNeill Whistler, 1858

Calligraphic panel of Nasta'liq script on cream cartouches over a gold ground with small painted flowers, framed in blue.

Poetry Fragment (Qit'a) written in Nasta'liq Script

Iran or India, Safavid dynasty (1501-1722)

Etching of a man's head with a wide-brimmed hat and pleated ruff collar, eyes lowered and faint smile.

Man's Head (with hat and ruff)

Anne Claude Philippe Caylus, n.d.

Etching of a dilapidated timber-framed house with sagging roofs and a woman standing in a doorway.

The Unsafe Tenement

James McNeill Whistler, 1858

Woodcut of two women embracing in the foreground, an old man with a staff at right, trees and a distant town behind.

The Visitation, from The Fall and Redemption of Man

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1513

Woodcut of a crowded 16th-century tournament with armored knights on horseback clashing in a walled courtyard before spectato

The Tournament

Jost Amman, 1565

Etching of men in caps seated at wooden tables in a tavern, one smoking a pipe, with a tankard on the table.

Longshore Men

James McNeill Whistler, 1859

Engraved fan-shaped ornamental design with symmetrical scrollwork, winged figures, a bird, and foliage.

Ornamental design

Paul Flindt, n.d.

Red-toned engraved frontispiece with a seated woman, putti holding a palette, and an inscribed title tablet.

Frontispiece from Cipriani's "Rudiments of Drawing"

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1792

Profile Study of Man's Head

Sebald Beham, 1542

Etching of five ornamental vases, several filled with flowers, with scrollwork, handles and masks, from a 1646 vase series.

Plate One from Raccolta di Vasi diversi di Stef. de la Bella Fiorentino

Johanna Sibylla Kraus, 1646

Haloed monk in black habit seated in a gilded initial O, presenting books to monks on either side, with blue and green foliag

Saint Benedict Presenting his Rule to Benedictine and Cistercian Monks in a Historiated Initial "O" from a Choirbook

Unknown artist, 1394/95

Etching of a log cabin with two figures at its doorway, a fenced yard, trees, rocks, and an animal in the foreground.

Two Men at the Door

Allart van Everdingen, n.d.

Etching of a woman tipping a wheelbarrow beside a farmhouse and bare tree, by Camille Pissarro, 1880.

Woman Emptying a Wheelbarrow

Camille Pissarro, 1880

Etching of a skeleton holding coins while a startled rich man raises his arms beside a table piled with treasure.

The Rich Man and Death

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1651

Bust of an Old Man

Jan Lievens, 1635-44

Reddish-brown print of a sleeping young woman with tilted head, closed eyes, and curled hair on a pillow.

Head of a Young Woman Asleep

Jean-Baptiste Lucien, 1787/95