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Art Institute of Chicago

13,151 works

Woodblock print of a rider on a white horse crossing a wooden bridge through a snowy landscape with mountains and pines.

Crossing the River at Sano

Okumura Masanobu, 18th century

Woodblock print of a woman in patterned kimono standing beside a seated man under red lanterns on a veranda.

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

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1769

Black-and-white Japanese woodblock print of two boys reading a scroll before a mountain landscape with pagodas.

Two Boys as the Eccentric Monks Kanzan (Chinese: Hanshan) and Jittoku (Chinese: Shide)

Okumura Masanobu, 18th century

Black-ground woodblock print of Hotei and two children in a boat on night waters, with a bird flying overhead.

Hotei and Two Children on a Boat

Okumura Masanobu, 18th century

Saint Bernardino of Siena Preaching from an Open Book

Sienese Italian, 1570/90

Black-and-white hatched print of a bust-length man in a dark jacket and white cravat, turned slightly to the left.

Portrait of Auguste Brunet

Théodore Géricault, 1818

Etching of the Adoration of the Kings: Virgin and Child, kneeling king, crowned figure and turbaned magus under a star's rays

Adoration of the Kings

Claude Vignon, 1619

Etching of a blind beggar stumbling near a column as a boy slips away, with a dog and ruined arched buildings behind.

The Blind Beggar Tricked by Lazarillo

Thomas Wijck, n.d.

Pen and grey wash drawing of a seated woman with flowers in her hair and hands, draped in flowing cloth.

Flora

called Il Baciccio Giovanni Battista Gaulli, n.d.

Pen and ink wash drawing of a kneeling monk receiving a rosary from the Virgin and Child amid angels and clouds.

Vision of Saint Dominic

Attributed to Luca Giordano, n.d.

Etching of a bearded man leaning over a double bass, with his bow and sheet music visible at the left.

The Double Bass Player

Alphonse Legros, c. 1873

Pen and wash study of armored soldiers around a mounted commander on a platform, with a banner and massed troops behind.

Study for Cosimo I Reorganizing the Tuscan Troops

Ludovico Buti, 1589

Brown ink and white heightened drawing of five winged putti with books among columns and draped cloth.

Five Putti with Books

After Bernardino Gatti, called Il Sojaro, c. 1543

Sketches of Three Male Heads in Profile

Roman or Lombard Italian, 1580/1600

Black chalk drawing on grey paper of three seated men at a table in an arched room, with a standing woman behind.

Study for the Supper at Emmaus

Giulio Campi, 1550/59

Red chalk study of several figures, one draped figure above two reclining figures, with diagonal hatching in the background.

Study

Attributed to Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari, 1710/20

Pencil drawing of a nude warrior in a plumed helmet with a cloak and shield, after Francesco Albani.

Standing Nude Warrior, possibly Mars, with Shield

after Francesco Albani, n.d.

Red chalk sketch of a seated child with a loosely drawn outstretched leg below, on a pale paper sheet.

Study for Christ Child

Giacomo Cavedone, 1610/12

Etching of a large oak in a woodland with a couple in period dress walking on a path beside a stream.

Woodland Landscape with an Elegant Couple Walking Beneath an Oak

the elder Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, 1796/1800

Brown ink drawing of a seated allegorical woman beside a column, with putti, a lion and a coat of arms above.

Allegorical Figure of Fortitude, with Coat of Arms Above

Attributed to Giovanni Battista Coriolano, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a turbaned, bearded seated man raising an arm while a younger figure leans at his knee.

Samuel Enthroned

Cesare Nebbia, 1586/89

Graphite drawing of a bearded monk reaching upward toward a vision of Christ and angels within an arched frame.

Christ Appearing to Monastic Saint in Ecstasy

Follower of Carlo Maratti, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of two bearded standing men draped in robes, placed side by side in a rectangular niche.

Two Standing Prisoners in a Niche

Bernardino Campi, c. 1549

Pen and ink drawing of Saint Benedict raising his arm as men strain to move a stone beside classical columns and trees.

Saint Benedict Moving the Stone which a Demon Had Made Immobile

after Ludovico Carracci, after 1606

Woodblock print of a woman in a pink kimono with an umbrella beside a river, under a willow, with two frogs.

A Young Woman Watching Frogs (parody of Ono no Tôfû)

Torii Kiyomitsu, c. 1760

Black and white woodblock print of a man seated at a table gazing at a moon above willow trees beside a hut.

Man in Thatched Hut Viewing the Moon

Nishimura Shigenaga, c. 1740s

Japanese woodblock print of Yamauba with long black hair nursing the red-faced child Kintaro in a floral purple kimono.

Yamauba Breast Feeding Kintaro

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1801/06

Pencil drawing of Christ leaning on a cross, with a chalice and drops falling from his hand at lower left.

Christ with the Cross

Circle of Rosso Fiorentino, c. 1530

Etched page with the handwritten French poem L'attelage and a small vignette of a horse and figure in a landscape.

The Ploughman and His Horse

Charles Meryon, 1854

Handwritten French letter in brown ink on aged paper, addressed to Monsieur le Directeur, with a signature at lower right.

Charles Meryon Autographed Letter

Charles Meryon, March 24, 1854