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Art Institute of Chicago

13,152 works

Loose pencil sketch of a bearded man in a jacket, head turned, on a pale peach paper ground.

Stephane Mallarmé, No. 2

James McNeill Whistler, 1892

Printed sheet with a grid of twelve numbered panels showing white branching textures on dark lines, within a dark border.

Study for Share Certificates in a Fraudulent Franco-Californian Company, No. 1

Charles Meryon, 1855

Mirrored tombstone-style print with a skull, Meryon inscription, leafy branch, and a ship with striped sails.

Impression of the Plate on Meryon's Tombstone

Félix Bracquemond, 1868

Watercolor genealogical family chart in a red heart shape, framed by roses, with a cherub and a verse at the base.

A Genealogical Family Piece

Lydia Smith, 1811

Hand-colored German birth and baptism certificate with two angels, verses, birds on branches, and an eagle emblem.

Birth and Baptism Certificate

printed by Heinrich Ebner, 1814

Black chalk drawing of the crucified Christ with head bowed and arms outstretched on a cross, on grey paper.

Christ on the Cross

Circle of Corrado Giaquinto, after 1730

Lithograph of Mephistopheles flying with dark wings over a silhouetted Gothic city skyline beneath a pale moon.

Mephistopheles Flying, from Faust

Eugène Delacroix, 1828

Brown ink landscape drawing of a steep cliff with a fortified tower, a road with walking figures and a cart, and houses.

Landscape with Figures and Horses in the Foreground

Gillis Neyts, 1638/87

Lithograph of a standing cloaked figure speaking to a bearded scholar at a desk in a cluttered study with skulls on shelves.

Mephistopheles Appearing to Faust

Eugène Delacroix, 1828

Black and white print of a rearing horse with a flowing mane against a dark, windswept background, signed and dated 1828.

Wild Horse, or Frightened Horse Leaving the Water

Eugène Delacroix, 1828

Lithograph of a seated robed figure speaking to a young man in a draped interior with skulls on the mantel.

Mephistopheles Receiving the Student

Eugène Delacroix, 1828

Etching of a man in a wide hat fishing from a log beside a leaning tree, with reeds and distant bushes behind.

The Fisher

Emmanuel Phelippes-Beaulieu, 1863

Lithograph of a bestial seated figure writing at a desk, with a reclining body, open book, flowers and serpent below.

The Slanderer

Charles Rambert, 1851

Lithograph of a young man holding a wine glass beside a shadowy figure pouring wine, with a sprawled figure below and grapevi

Drunkenness

Charles Rambert, 1851

Lithograph of a seated woman beside a spinning wheel in a dim room with a shelf of bottles and a crucifix.

Marguerite at the Spinning Wheel

Eugène Delacroix, 1828

Lithograph of two men on a rocky ledge under a pine, one gesturing toward snowy mountains, with a coiled snake nearby.

Faust and Mephistopheles in the Harz Mountains

Eugène Delacroix, 1828

Bust of a Man in Profile to the Left

Charles-Nicholas Cochin the younger, 1767

Red chalk sketch of a seated man in a coat and cravat, arm outstretched, leaning back in an armchair.

Seated Gentleman

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, c. 1769

Ink and wash drawing of a classical colonnade with an arched doorway and small figures on a stone floor.

The Entrance of the Academy of Architecture at the Louvre

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1779

Pen and brown wash drawing of a standing nude woman holding a tall staff against a shaded backdrop.

Seated Female Nude

Samuel van Hoogstraten, 1647/78

Red chalk drawing of a seated male nude with extended arm, draped at the hips, on cream paper.

Study of a Male Nude

Adriaen van de Velde, n.d.

Hand-colored caricature sheet with comic vignettes of exaggerated figures in domestic and social scenes, with verses.

Grotesque Borders for Halls & Rooms

Thomas Rowlandson, published August 1799

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Virgin rising on clouds, surrounded by angels and putti within an arched frame.

Assumption of the Virgin

Domenico Piola, n.d.

Etching of a vast imaginary prison with a round tower, arches, staircases, and tiny figures on walkways.

The Round Tower, plate 3 from the second edition of Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750, reworked 1761

Mademoiselle Leconte

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1898

Horse and Collie

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1898

Brown and ochre woodcut portrait of a man with curly hair and a pleated ruff collar, looking toward the viewer.

Gillis van Breen

Hendrick Goltzius, 1588/92

Portrait of Ambroise Vollard

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1904

Portrait of Louis Valtat

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1904

Lithograph of a young child with head lowered, wearing a hair bow and lace collar, signed Renoir at lower right.

Claude Renoir, Head Lowered

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1904, published 1919