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Art Institute of Chicago

5,126 works

Pencil sketch sheet with studies of hands, a foot, and a group of standing figures in robes and headwear.

Sheet of Studies: Hands and Group of Oriental Figures

George Chinnery, n.d.

Loose watercolor of a pale house with terracotta roof framed by trees and cypresses, with flowers in the foreground.

Ightham Mote, Kent

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, n.d.

Haloed friar in yellow habit before brick wall, gesturing to kneeling donors while a figure holds a red flame.

St. Francis of Assisi with Donors in a Historiated Initial from an Unidentified Manuscript

Unknown artist, c. 1400

Pencil drawing of a robed female saint holding a spear, standing in an arched niche between two pilasters.

Saint Standing in a Niche

Follower of Carolo Maratti, n.d.

Pen and brown ink study of struggling figures among classical columns and arches, with a seated woman and a fountain.

Study for the Rape of the Sabines

Circle of Jacopo Zanguidi, called Bertoia, 1564/74

Pen and wash drawing of a painter at an easel in a crowded arched studio with many figures around him.

Earthquake in an Artist's Studio

Pietro da Cortona, c. 1660

Brown and pink wash drawing of a kneeling woman in a draped robe with hands clasped in prayer, with blue cloth behind her.

Draped Female Figure at Prayer

Francesco Fontebasso, n.d.

Red chalk sketch of a young woman with curled hair and a headdress, gazing upward, drawn in loose lines.

Portrait of Lady

John Hoppner, n.d.

Watercolor of a woman gesturing to two boys and a child kneeling beside a broken wooden toy under a tree.

The Broken Toy

Alfred Edward Chalon, 1800/60

Portrait of a Woman

John Downman, n.d.

Charcoal study of a young woman in a headscarf leaning against a pillar, looking over her shoulder.

Study of a Peasant Girl

Camille Roqueplan, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a nude woman seen from behind, holding a round fan, with a braid over her shoulder.

Nude Figure Holding a Fan

Charles French, n.d.

Pen and watercolor drawing of a town skyline with a tall church spire, gabled rooftops and light blue and red washes.

View of Douai

Adam Frans van der Meulen, 1667-70

Manuscript page with a painted viper coiled among rocks beside a shrub with red flowers, framed by Persian calligraphy.

Viper in a Rocky Garden from Manafi' al-Hayawan (On the Usefulness of Animals) of Ibn Bakhtishu'

Unknown artist, c. 1300

Drawing of a seated nude woman with hair in a bun, looking down, on a blue-grey toned paper.

Seated Female Nude

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, n.d.

Watercolor of a schooner with figures on deck and a rowboat in turquoise choppy water near a distant palm-fringed island.

Schooner - Nassau

Winslow Homer, 1898/99

Watercolor sketch of a clown balancing on one leg above a small black piglet in a circus ring with spectators behind.

At the Circus Fernando: Medrano with a Piglet

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, c. 1889

Pen and ink sketch of a butterfly with hatched wings and handwritten margin notes on pale paper.

Butterfly

James McNeill Whistler, 1898/99

Pen and ink sketch with blue wash of a club lying across a tasseled cushion, with a handwritten size note beside it.

A Club on a Cushion

James McNeill Whistler, 1898/99

Pen and wash drawing of a dim theatre interior with seated audience members and gas lamps glowing on the walls.

The Old Bedford (recto); The Gallery of the Old Bedford (verso)

Walter Sickert, c. 1894

Sketch after "Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder"

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1879

Pen and ink sketch of a moustached man in a bowler hat reclining in a wooden chair, signed Joseph Hayllar, 1874.

Whistler Resting

Joseph Hayllar, 1874

Ink and wash study of arms and legs of a crucified figure on cream paper, by Eugène Delacroix.

Study of Arms and Legs of Christ Crucified

Eugène Delacroix, c. 1850

Four standing female figures in flowing drapery, drawn in brown ink with white highlights on tan paper.

Four Standing Draped Female Figures

Paolo Farinati or his circle, n.d.

Charcoal drawing of a man in a laurel wreath, head resting on his hand, gazing outward against a dark background.

False Glory

Odilon Redon, c. 1885

Grey wash drawing of a thatched shed with two seated peasants, a bare tree at left, and a child in a doorway.

A Peasant Seated in a Shed

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1800/09

Pen and ink panoramic drawing of a hilltop castle and town with a coach and travelers on a road in the foreground.

View of The Castello Bracciano, near Rome with Coach and Figures

Johann Wilhelm Baur, 1630s

Red chalk and ink sketch of women dancing in a line beside a seated man in a plumed hat, near an arched window.

Harem Scene

Francesco Guardi, n.d.

Chalk sketch of a seated man in a tricorn hat on horseback, with red chalk accents and a separate study of a boot.

Sketch of Man on Horseback, with Separate Sketch of his Right Foot

Pierre Lenfant, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of allegorical figures on clouds with ostriches and a spear-carrying figure below.

Allegory of Africa

Gregorio Guglielmi, 1765