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Art Institute of Chicago

13,151 works

Pencil sketch of a seated girl in a bonnet and long coat holding a large muff.

Seated Girl with Muff

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Watercolor of a curly-haired boy in a blue cap and dark suit seated on a beach with waves behind him.

Eddie at the Seashore

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Hand-colored print of four pink tulips with blue-green leaves, above a printed list of plant names and their meanings.

Decorative Illustration, from The Illuminated Language of Flowers

probably Edmund Evans, published 1884

Hand-colored print of a honeysuckle-like flowering branch with green leaves, above a printed list of flower meanings.

Valerian Through Volkamenia, from The Illuminated Language of Flowers

probably Edmund Evans, published 1884

Pencil sketch of a child holding a bird's nest beside an adult in a bonnet, under bare branches and a wooden fence.

Discovery of Bird's Nest

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Handwritten letter dated 11 July 1881 addressed to Miss Greenaway, with a red Wybournes, Kemsing letterhead.

Letter to Kate Greenaway

Randolph Caldecott, 1881

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a grey koala clinging to a green eucalyptus branch, labeled Koala, on a sketchbook page.

Sketchbook

George Cruikshank, n.d.

Loose brown watercolor and graphite sketch of a standing nude woman with flowing drapery, signed by Auguste Rodin.

Standing Nude with Draperies

Auguste Rodin, n.d.

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a seated nude figure with arm outstretched against faint radiating lines.

Leaving the Earth

Auguste Rodin, 1900/05

Woodcut of Saint Jerome kneeling in a rocky landscape with a lion, a church tower, and birds flying overhead.

Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

Hans Baldung Grien, c. 1511

Line drawing with color accents of a woman in a boater hat in a deck chair, looking out over the sea from a ship.

The Passenger in Cabin 54 - The Cruise

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1896

Color print of two women in a red-framed theater box with a man in a top hat behind them.

Box in the Grand Tier

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1897

Monochrome lithograph of two seated women on a bench in an interior, one in a ruffled collar, with a decorative wall behind.

At La Souris, Madame Palmyre

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1897

Daumier lithograph: a man in a top hat gestures at a woman beside a bundle, with a French caption about oyster prices.

“- Oysters at 25 sous a dozen, horrible!... Even if you gave me 100 sous to eat half a dozen, I would not allow mysel…

Honoré Daumier, 1866

Daumier lithograph of a man inspecting two draped women labeled 1852 and 1870, with a caption reading That will do the job.

“That will do the job!,” plate 91 from Actualités

Honoré Daumier, 1870

Lithograph of a woman in a long dress arranging trims on a hat beside a white hatbox, with a printed menu at left.

The Milliner, Renée Vert

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893

Lithograph of a hairdresser combing a woman's long yellow hair while she holds a hand mirror.

The Hairdresser, Program for the Théâtre Libre

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893

Lithograph poster for Eros vanné showing a figure in a fur-trimmed coat and feathered hat beside a seltzer bottle, 1894.

Eros vanné

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1894

Poster of dancer Jane Avril in orange skirt and black stockings on stage, with a dark silhouette in the foreground.

Jane Avril

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893

Woodblock print of a reclining Hotei playing with a child while a woman in a coral kimono watches by a lattice window.

Hotei, from the series "The Seven Gods of Good Luck in Modern Life (Ukiyo shichi fukujin)"

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1769

Woodblock print of an elderly bearded man reading beside a woman playing shamisen, with a crane and plum-blossom screen.

Fukurokuju, from the series "The Seven Gods of Good Luck in the Floating World (Ukiyo Shichi Fukujin)"

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1769

Line drawing in reddish ink of a man in a suit standing beside a hanging coat on a hook, signed Forain.

In the Cloakroom

Jean-Louis Forain, c. 1897

Japanese woodblock print of Tamonten with two women beside a brazier, folding screen and chrysanthemums, by Suzuki Harunobu.

Tamonten, from the series "The Seven Gods of Good Luck in Modern Life (Tosei Shichi Fukujin)"

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1769

Charcoal-style sketch of a seated bearded man with a bald head, eyes lowered, wearing a loose coat, on white paper.

Portrait of Vollard, Seated

Jean-Louis Forain, c. 1910

Lithographic theater program by Jean Louis Forain showing a standing balding man in a frock coat beside printed cast credits.

Theater Program for Une Journee Parlementaire

Jean-Louis Forain, 1893-94

Engraving of Saint John seated with a book on a rocky island with birds, deer, a walled city, and the Virgin and Child above.

Saint John on the Island of Patmos

Master E. S., c. 1460

Engraving of Saint Jerome seated beside a lion, with a skull, rocky landscape, trees and a distant city.

Saint Jerome and the Lion

Master I.B. with the Bird, c. 1509

Woodblock print of a man on rice bundles, a child hanging a paper charm on a pine tree, and a woman beside a shop stall.

Daikokuten, from the series "The Seven Gods of Good Luck in Modern Life (Tosei Shichi Fukujin)"

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1769

Woodblock print of a seated man, a woman and a boy with a basket under willow branches on a veranda.

Ebisu, from the series "The Seven Gods of Good Luck in Modern Life (Tosei Shichi Fukujin)"

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1769

Woodblock print of an old bearded man tending a seated woman's foot beside a blossoming plum branch and shoji screen.

Jurojin, from the series "The Seven Gods of Good Luck in the Floating World (Ukiyo Shichi Fukujin)"

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1769