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Art Institute of Chicago

13,050 works

Etched sheet with title page, dedication, and two small portraits of a wigged man and a bearded old man.

Title Page, Dedication, Portrait of Giambattista Tiepolo, Bearded Old Man

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1775

Engraving of a seated nude woman with a snake coiling near her beside rocks and tree trunks in a hatched landscape.

Cleopatra

Jacopo de' Barbari, 1509/15

Engraving of the Trinity: God the Father holding nude Christ on his lap, a dove above, with angels around them.

The Trinity

Johann Ladenspelder, 1542

Woodcut of three bishops in mitres and robes standing beneath an arch beside a column, one holding a lit candle.

Saints Nicholaus, Ulrich, and Erasmus

Albrecht Dürer, c. 1504-08

Mezzotint portrait of a woman in a satin gown standing before trees and a distant landscape.

Mrs. Bonfoy

James MacArdell, c. 1754

Mezzotint portrait of a standing man in embroidered period dress with a sword, cane and helmet before a rocky landscape.

Sir Thomas Wharton

Valentine Green, c. 1770

Etching of a Chicago avenue with a tall spired tower, rubble in the foreground, and small pedestrians in an open lot.

Michigan Avenue, Chicago (The City Dirtyful)

Joseph Pennell, 1919

Engraving of a winged angel holding a spread cloth aloft, with smaller angels and clouds below, dated 1516.

Sudarium Spread Out by an Angel

Albrecht Dürer, 1516

Engraving of a nude man surrounded by a bearded older man in a turban, a woman with a jug, and other figures against rocks.

The Desperate Man

Albrecht Dürer, 1515-16

Engraved portrait of a king in ermine-trimmed robes with a scepter, crown, draped curtain and classical column behind him.

Louis XVI

Charles Clément Bervic, 1790, printed after 1815

Engraved portrait of a man in ornate armor with long curled hair, holding a baton beside a plumed helmet.

Portrait of Henri de Lorraine, Comte d'Harcourt, Horsemaster of France

Antoine Masson, 1667

Engraved oval portrait of Cardinal Mazarin in clerical dress with a white collar, under a decorative frame and coat of arms.

Cardinal Mazarin

Robert Nanteuil, c. 1654

Engraved oval portrait of a man in armor and lace collar, with a coat of arms and French verse below.

Frédéric-Maurice de la Tour d'Auvergne, Duc de Bouillon

Robert Nanteuil, 1656

Engraved oval portrait of a man with curled wig, lace cravat and ornate armor, inscribed Ludovicus Delphinus, 1684.

Ludovicus Delphinus

Pieter van Schuppen, 1684

Pencil sketch of a seated Mughal ruler on a canopied throne, with attendants in turbans and Persian inscriptions.

Akbar Offering Timur's Crown to Shah Jahan

Unknown artist, Mughal period (1526-1857), ca. 1650-1700

Engraved oval portrait of a standing clergyman in ecclesiastical robes holding a book, with a marble-patterned border.

J-B. Bossuet: Standing

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Oval engraved bust portrait of an elderly clergyman in robes with a cross pendant, one hand on his chest.

J-B. Bossuet: Bust Portrait

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Engraved oval portrait of a man with long hair and a white collar, within a decorative ruled frame and patterned border.

Descartes

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Engraved oval portrait of a man in three-quarter view, one hand at his cloak, inside a ruled frame with a blank cartouche bel

John Dryden

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Engraved oval portrait of an older clergyman with a pectoral cross, set in a decorative marbled border with a blank cartouche

Fenelon

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Engraved oval portrait of a woman with upswept hair gazing upward, holding an ornate urn draped in cloth.

Adrienne Lecouvreur

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Montesquieu

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Oval engraved portrait of a cardinal with curly hair, clerical collar and star-shaped order medal, labeled Polignac.

Melchior de Polignac, Cardinal

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Engraved oval portrait of a man in a powdered wig and dark coat, labeled J.B. Rousseau, on a textured background.

J-B. Rousseau

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Mme. de Grateloup de Dax

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Jean Joseph Grateloup

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Louis XV

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Napoleon

Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup, n.d.

Bust of a Young Man in Profile

Giovanni Badile, 1430/40

Woodblock print of an elderly man with white beard in a colorful robe holding a staff, with falling petals above.

Evening Snow on White Hair (Shiraga bosetsu), from the series "Personal Encounters from Eight Performances (Omi hakkei)"

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, c. 1847/52