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Art Institute of Chicago

669 works

Painting of a large spreading tree over a sunlit meadow with wildflowers and distant hills under a pale sky.

Landscape

Eugène Bléry, c. 1740

Painting of Mercury beside the beheaded Argus, with a white cow among trees and a blue landscape beyond.

Mercury Rescues the Disguised Io after Beheading Argus

Johann Michael Rottmayr, c. 1695

Painted countryside scene with a cottage, a fisherman by a stream, a washerwoman, large trees, and grazing cattle.

Landscape with Fisherman and Washerwoman

John Rathbone, 1790-1800

Painting of a laden horse-drawn coach on a stormy road, with lightning striking near a wooden cross and travelers aboard.

The Diligence

Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, c. 1820-23

Painting of a Dutch canal village with a sailing boat, a tall church tower, red-roofed houses, and a cloudy sky.

The Church of Overschie

Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1866

Painting of a woman walking across a golden wheat field past red haystacks, with a farmhouse and green hills behind.

The Beach of Les Grands Sables at Le Pouldu

Paul Sérusier, 1890

Painted view of ruined Roman brick walls and an arched opening on a grassy hill, with trees and small figures under a blue sk

The Imperial Palace on the Palatine, Rome

Paul-Jean Flandrin, 1834

Painting of a rocky gorge framing a hazy view of a bay, a hillside town, and a distant volcanic mountain.

Italian Landscape

Attributed to Heinrich Reinhold, 1821-24

Grey horse in a landscape with a turbaned attendant and a second horse behind it under a cloudy sky.

Giafar

Attributed to Alfred Dedreux, 1850s

Painting of a shepherdess milking a goat beside sheep, a donkey, and a shepherd near a ruin and thatched hut at dusk.

Pastoral Scene with a Shepherdess Milking a Goat

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem, c. 1665-c. 1670

Painting of Susanna and two elders in a garden, and Susanna on trial before judges seated on a dais with guards.

Susanna and the Elders in the Garden, and the Trial of Susanna before the Elders

Master of Apollo and Daphne, c. 1500

Painting of Christ with a staff and Mary Magdalene kneeling before an open tomb with angels, under a pale landscape sky.

Noli Me Tangere

Pietro Perugino, 1500-05

Adam and Eve nude beneath a tree with an apple and serpent, surrounded by animals, mountains and a skeleton.

The Fall of Man with Scenes of the Creation

Attributed to Augustus Cordus, 1544

Painting of a river with fishermen in rowboats, a church tower on the distant shore, sailing boats, and a dramatic cloudy sky

River Landscape with a View of Naarden

Salomon van Ruysdael, 1642

Grayscale landscape with a group of men walking a road, a wooden cross, a small chapel, a river and distant church spire.

Landscape with Figures

Attributed to Joos de Momper, II, c. 1610

Painting of Daniel judging the elders before a raised throne, with soldiers, a woman in red, and a landscape with a castle an

Daniel Saving Susanna, the Judgment of Daniel, and the Execution of the Elders

Master of Apollo and Daphne, c. 1500

Painting of Notre Dame cathedral across a wet quay, with two nuns walking, a seated man with a dog, and carriages.

Notre Dame de Paris

Jean-François Raffaëlli, c. 1890

Three nude women rest by a woodland clearing on draped cloths, surrounded by dark trees and foliage.

Nymphs Leaving the Bath

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1843

Painting of the Nativity with Mary and Joseph kneeling before the Christ child, shepherds, an angel, an ox and a donkey.

The Nativity

Pietro Perugino, 1500-05

Expressive painting of a landscape with two tall dark trees, a yellow path, and bold red, green, and blue fields.

Landscape with Two Poplars

Wassily Kandinsky, 1912

Painting of an autumn forest with pale tree trunks, russet foliage, a grassy path and distant hills under a grey-blue sky.

Wooded Landscape

Gustave Courbet, 1860-65

Painting of a rushing river past a mill with a water wheel, bare trees, autumn foliage and a sunlit hill.

Mill of Pont Maupuit

Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin, c. 1900

Painting of a black and white cow standing in a grassy field in front of a line of trees.

Study of a Cow

Émile van Marcke, c. 1875-90

Venetian painting of the Flight into Egypt with a mother and child on a donkey, a leading figure, sheep, and a river landscap

The Flight into Egypt

Unknown artist, c. 1545

Classical landscape with draped figures in the foreground and a colossal figure carved into a mountain beside a river valley.

Mount Athos Carved as a Monument to Alexander the Great

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, 1796

Painting of Adam and Eve in paradise with animals, an angel and cherubs in the sky above a landscape.

Adam and Eve in Paradise

Francesco Solimena, c. 1700

Painting of two women carrying wicker baskets walking down a tree-lined Parisian street with a dog and a figure in black.

Two Washerwomen Crossing a Small Park in Paris

Jean-François Raffaëlli, c. 1890

Painting of a bronze-toned urn wrapped in a garland of tulips, roses and carnations, with a landscape and town behind.

Vase of Flowers

Jean-Baptiste Belin, Date unknown

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, kneeling king in gold robe, and riders in a rocky landscape.

The Adoration of the Magi

Workshop of Cornelis Engebrechtsz, 1515-25

Peasants carry a newborn calf on straw past a cow and a stone farmhouse, with children watching from the doorway.

Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields

Jean-François Millet, 1864