New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome and Firefox. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome Add to Firefox

Art Institute of Chicago

13,165 works

Brown wash drawing of a tropical shoreline with palm trees, sailing ships, arched buildings and figures at the water's edge.

South Sea Island

Lorens Gottman, n.d.

Pencil sketch of two winged putti embracing, with drapery swirling above them on pale paper.

Spandrel Decoration with Two Putti

After Carlo Maratti, n.d.

Red and graphite drawing of a seated scholar in a cap and gown gesturing with his hands, with Latin text below.

Duns Scotus

Attributed to Federico Zuccaro, c. 1560

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of a nude statue on a pedestal among trees on a lawn.

Statue on Lawn in Epsom

George Henry Harlow, 1809

Grey wash drawing of a kneeling saint embracing a crucifix, with a skull at her feet in a curtained interior.

Beata Humbelina with Crucifix

Possibly Johann Christoph Lischka, c. 1700

Three oval grey wash sketches on tan paper: a river bridge, a harbor with sailboats and cliffs, and a shore with figures.

Two Views of Ports, one View of River with Bridge

Alexandre Thiollet, n.d.

Woodblock print of a bald man in a patterned red kimono holding up and reading a large sheet of paper.

The theater manager Shinozuka Uraemon reading the program for the Miayako Theater

Tōshūsai Sharaku, 1794

Engraving of a haloed saint with curly hair holding an open book and a large key, wearing a studded robe.

St. Peter

Master E. S., n.d.

Engraving of a haloed Christ standing among six winged angels in a landscape with trees, rabbits, deer, and birds.

Christ in the Desert with Six Angels

Master of the Catherine Wheel, c. 1490

Engraving of Christ in a flowing robe facing a winged horned dragon-like tempter among rocks, with a city in the background.

The Temptation of Christ

Master LCz, c. 1490

Engraving of St. Luke painting the Madonna and Child in a Gothic interior, with an angel above and a window view.

St. Luke Portraying the Madonna

Israhel van Meckenem, 1490-1500

Engraving of the Adoration of the Magi with Mary and Christ, kneeling kings, a star above, and a retinue at right.

The Adoration of the Magi, from The Life of Christ

Martin Schongauer, 1470/75

Engraving of an ornate crosier with the Virgin and Child in a circular frame and saints in Gothic niches below.

Bishop's Crosier

Martin Schongauer, 1475/80

Small etched portrait of a young man with wavy shoulder-length hair against a crosshatched dark background.

Head of a Young Man

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1507

Colour lithograph of a woman with short dark hair in a blue wrap with white fur trim, against a red background.

Elsa, called The Viennese

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1897

Woodblock print of a warrior monk raising a staff above a bamboo fence beside a pine tree, with a prone figure below.

Yoshitsune and Benkei at Ataka barrier

Ran-u, 1765

Japanese woodblock print of a standing woman with an oval dragon mirror and a seated musician playing a flute beneath a canop

Oiso no Tora and Shosho Playing Instruments

Nishimura Shigenaga, 1746

Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a green kimono carrying a red tub beside a snowy wooden gate.

The Actor Arashi Sangoro II as Ito Kuro Disguised as Banta in the Play Izu-goyomi Shibai no Ganjitsu, Performed at th…

Katsukawa Shunshō, c. 1772

Woodblock print of a woman with an orange parasol beside a willow and stream, with a frog in the water below.

Mitate (Parody) of Ono no Tofu in the Play Geiko Zashiki Kyogen

Katsukawa Shunshō, c. 1776

Lithograph of a seated man with folded arms and bowed head in a wooden chair, captioned Lannes, from La Caricature.

Lannes, plate 519

Honoré Daumier, 1835

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a patterned costume with tortoise, pine and crane motifs, wearing a tall black headdress

Ichimura Kamezo I performing the Sanbaso dance

Torii Kiyohiro, c. 1756

Woodblock print of two kabuki actors in patterned kimono beside a soba noodle stand, with Japanese calligraphy.

The Actors Ichimura Kamezo I as Sengokuya Ihei and Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as his wife Omatsu in the play "Kashiwa ga To…

Torii Kiyohiro, 1755

Mr. Stewardson the Artist

B. Oakley, n.d.

Japanese woodblock print of two women beside a cherry tree with a butterfly, a bamboo fence, and calligraphy above.

Poem by Mibuno no Tadami, from an untitled series of Thirty-Six Immortal Poets

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1767/68

Woodblock print of two women in kimono reading a letter on a red bench as a young man enters through a curtain.

Young Man Walks in as Two Courtesans Read Love Letter

Shiba Kôkan, c. 1772/74

Japanese woodblock print of women and children at a shop with a large noren curtain, a young man holding toys.

The Echigoya on New Year's Day

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1789

Japanese woodblock print of two women in black hoods and floral kimono beside a man in a red coat, under a shimenawa rope.

The Twelfth Month (Harumachizuki), from the series "Fashionable Monthly Visits to Sacred Places in the Four Seasons (…

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1784

Woodblock print of a dancer in a pink floral kimono holding a fan beneath a hanging bell and falling cherry blossoms.

Actor Nakayama Tomisaburô as a Shirabyôshi Dancer in “The Maiden at Dôjô Temple” (“Musume Dôjô-ji”)

Katsukawa Shun'ei, About 1794

Japanese woodblock print of a seated woman in a chrysanthemum kimono with turtles, a treasure bowl and a scroll.

Jurojin, from the series "A Comparison of the Treasures of the Gods of Good Fortune (Fukujin takara awase)"

Chobunsai Eishi, c. 1795

Pencil sketch of a seated woman in a ruffled collar and long gown in an armchair, on a sketchbook page with handwritten notes

Sketchbook

Jacques-Louis David, 1809-10