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Art Institute of Chicago

24,211 works

Pen and wash drawing of nude helmeted soldiers with shields and raised weapons advancing together in a crowded group.

Nude Soldiers Gesticulating with Their Weapons (recto); Two Drapery Studies for the Figure of Tatius (verso)

Jacques-Louis David, 1796/97

Pencil drawing of two women seated in a furnished parlor beside a fireplace, one reclining in a tufted armchair.

Comtesse Charles d’Agoult (born Marie de Flavigny) and Her Daughter Claire d’Agoult

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1849

Two women serve at a shop counter beside a child and blossoming plum tree, with calligraphy text on the left, Hokusai print.

Fujieda, from an untitled series of the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido

Katsushika Hokusai, 1804

Two sparrows on stone millstones under leafy bush clover branches, with Japanese calligraphy on a pale paper sheet.

Sparrows on Millstones with Hagi Bushes

Katsushika Hokusai, 1797

Hokusai print of workers hanging patterned dyed cloth on bamboo poles and washing fabric at wooden tubs outdoors.

Hanging up dyed cloth

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1805

Woodblock print of figures gathering shellfish on tidal flats beside boats, with a distant mountain and coastline.

Shellfish gathering

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1800

Sepia print of a vaulted tomb with a stone sarcophagus, two caryatid figures, and a flame in a central niche.

Tomb with Caryatids

Louis Jean Desprez, 1779/84

Woodblock print of a nobleman on horseback under a pine with attendants and a blue snow-capped mountain behind.

The Eastern Journey of the Celebrated Poet Ariwara no Narihira

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1806

Brown-toned print of a winged death figure standing before a sarcophagus under an arch, flanked by two sphinxes.

Tomb with Death Standing

Louis Jean Desprez, 1779/84

Night street etching with a woman in a long gown in the foreground, a glowing lamp, hotel and cafe signs, and crowds below.

The Raid

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1910

Ink architectural elevation of a Roman Doric order with fluted columns, entablature, and detail moldings on the right.

Orders of Architecture, Roman Doric Order from Baths of Diocletian, Rome, Italy, Elevation

Carl J. Furst, April 1, 1870

Ink architectural drawing of a Greek Ionic column, capital and entablature with dimension lines, titled Minerva Polias in Ath

Orders of Architecture, Greek Ionic Order from the Temple of Minerva Polias, Athens, Greece, Elevation

Carl J. Furst, May 23, 1870

Architectural elevation drawing of a Renaissance Doric column and entablature with dimension notes, by Carl J. Furst, 1870.

Orders of Architecture, Renaissance Doric Order from Vincenzo Scamozzi, Elevation

Carl J. Furst, June 5, 1870

Woodblock print of a swordsmith at an anvil beside a mythological figure in patterned robes, under pine branches.

The Swordsmith Munechika and the God of Inari

Katsushika Hokusai, 1805

Woodblock print of two women and a child crossing a wooden footbridge past pine trees, rocks, stone steps and a lantern.

On the footbridge

Katsushika Hokusai, n.d.

Japanese print of a servant carrying branches past a stream toward a veranda where figures sit beside a pine tree.

Servant throwing bundles of branches into waterfall

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1810

Woodblock print of a craftsman working on a large wooden hoop, with Mount Fuji visible through the circle across fields.

Fujimigahara in Owari Province (Bishu Fujimigahara), from the series "Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurok…

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1830/33

Woodblock print of a large waterwheel, workers carrying sacks by a stream, and Mount Fuji in the distance on the right.

Waterwheel at Onden (Onden no suisha), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1830/33

Woodblock print of cranes in a marsh with Mount Fuji rising behind green hills and stylized clouds.

Umezawa Marsh in Sagami Province (Soshu Umezawa hidari), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanj…

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1830/33

Woodblock print of Mount Fuji at dawn above misty fields, with thatched houses and travelers with horses in the foreground.

Dawn at Isawa in Kai Province (Koshu Isawa no akatsuki), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanj…

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1830/33

Woodblock print of Mount Fuji above clouds, with a dense cushion pine grove, a stone lantern and travelers in the foreground.

Cushion Pine Tree at Aoyama (Aoyama Enza no matsu), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokk…

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1830/33

Woodblock print of a huge blue wave threatening boats, with snow-capped Mount Fuji visible in the distance under a pale sky.

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views…

Katsushika Hokusai, 1830/33

Japanese woodblock print of three women by a blossoming tree, two kneeling at a table with paper and brush, one standing.

No. 1 (ichi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1798/1800

Three women in striped kimono gather mulberry leaves from a tree, one carrying a woven basket, beside a ladder and stool.

No. 2 (ni), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1798/1800

Three women tend silkworms on trays of mulberry leaves in a workshop, one kneeling to chop leaves in a wooden basin.

No. 3 (san), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1798/1800

Three women in kimono work with silkworm cocoon trays in a wooden workshop, with a woven basket at right.

No. 4 (shi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1798/1800

Four women in kimono sort mulberry leaves on a mat in a room with blinds, from Utamaro's sericulture woodblock print.

No. 5 (go), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1798/1800

Grey wash drawing of three kneeling women in lace veils beside classical columns and a bust, by John Brown.

Three Kneeling Women

John Brown, 1770/75

Three women in kimono handle wooden trays of silkworm cocoons beside calligraphic text in a Japanese woodblock print.

No. 6 (roku), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1798/1800

Woodblock print of three women in a tatami room tending silkworms on paper, with a pine branch and calligraphy above.

No. 7 (nana), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1798/1800