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Art Institute of Chicago

13,164 works

Etching of a calm lagoon with masted boats, gondolas with figures, mooring posts, and a distant city skyline.

The Little Lagoon

James McNeill Whistler, 1879/80

Engraved oval portrait of a man in armor and curled wig, with drapery, helmet, book and heraldic cartouche.

Louis XIV

Robert Nanteuil, 1663

Hand-colored engraving of a church interior with coffered dome, Corinthian columns, and a crowd of figures near the altar.

S. Philippe du Rouk, Paris

Jean François Janinet, n.d.

Etching of a stemmed wine glass on a rumpled cloth against a dark hatched background, by James McNeill Whistler.

The Wine Glass

James McNeill Whistler, 1859

Mezzotint of Mary Magdalene kneeling in a rocky desert with a cross and skull beside her, dark craggy landscape behind.

Magdalen in the Desert

Attributed to Johann Joseph Freidhoff, c. 1800

Oval colored print of an older bearded man in a white collar, gold chain and blue sash against a dark background.

Crillon

Jean François Janinet, n.d.

Etching of an elderly woman in a bonnet and dark cloak standing against a pale background, by James McNeill Whistler.

La Mère Gérard

James McNeill Whistler, 1858

Persian manuscript page with Nasta'liq calligraphy in columns, framed by a painted border of flowers and birds.

Page from a manuscript in Nasta'liq with an illuminated border

Unknown artist, Safavid dynasty (1501-1722), 16th century

Calligraphic panel of Nasta'liq script on cream cartouches over a gold ground with small painted flowers, framed in blue.

Poetry Fragment (Qit'a) written in Nasta'liq Script

Iran or India, Safavid dynasty (1501-1722)

Etching of a curving canal with an arched bridge, boats, figures, and old buildings lining the waterfront.

The Bridge, Santa Marta

James McNeill Whistler, 1879/80

Ukiyo-e print of three women on a veranda with a tea kettle and brazier, with a poem and signature in the upper right.

Love in Rain, Snow and Hail (Ame yuki arare ni yosuru koi)

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1785

Woodblock print of a red macaw with blue tail perched on a pine branch, with green needles and vertical calligraphy.

Macaw on a pine branch

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1835

Pencil sketch of a stooped figure in long drapery leaning toward a table with small objects, on pale paper.

The Horoscope

James McNeill Whistler, probably 1889

Etching of Othello addressing Desdemona in a dim bedchamber, she seated on the bed and he standing with a raised hand.

Have you pray'd tonight, Desdemona?, plate twelve fom Othello

Théodore Chassériau, 1844

Engraving of God drawing Eve from the sleeping Adam beneath a large tree, with a deer in the background.

The Creation of Eve, plate one from Adam and Eve

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1540

Pencil sketch of a park with trees, statues and figures including nursemaids and children on paths and benches.

Nursemaids: "Les Bonnes du Luxembourg"

James McNeill Whistler, 1894

Woodcut of two women embracing in the foreground, an old man with a staff at right, trees and a distant town behind.

The Visitation, from The Fall and Redemption of Man

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1513

Lithograph of two dancers in dark dresses in the foreground, with spectators in hats watching from a balcony behind.

Dance at the Moulin Rouge

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1897

Study

James McNeill Whistler, 1879

Chiaroscuro woodcut of a Roman soldier holding his hand over a flaming brazier before a seated ruler and armed attendants.

Mucius Scevola

Andrea Andreani, 1608

Engraving of St. Anthony the Hermit with a halo, staff and bell, beside a crucifix in a rocky landscape, dated 1521.

St. Anthony the Hermit

Sebald Beham, 1521

Sketch of a tall wooden bridge on timber piers over water, with small figures walking along its railed deck.

The Tall Bridge

James McNeill Whistler, 1878

Etching of a fashionable man seen from behind, leaning on a cane, with small figures strolling in a garden landscape.

Man with a Cane, seen from behind, from The Garden of French Nobility

Abraham Bosse, 1629

Sepia woodcut of Moses seated beside the tables of the law, leaning on a staff before a gnarled tree.

Moses with the Tables of the Law

Ludwig Büsinck, n.d.

Sketch of a tall gabled house with red accents on tan paper, with small figures in the street below.

Red House, Paimpol

James McNeill Whistler, 1893

Engraving of Saint Jerome kneeling in a rocky cave with a crucifix, a lion behind him, and a skull at lower right.

Saint Jerome in Penitence

Agostino Carracci, n.d.

Haloed monk in black habit seated in a gilded initial O, presenting books to monks on either side, with blue and green foliag

Saint Benedict Presenting his Rule to Benedictine and Cistercian Monks in a Historiated Initial "O" from a Choirbook

Unknown artist, 1394/95

Loose pencil-like sketch of Waterloo Bridge with stone arches, carriages on the embankment, and a distant city skyline.

Waterloo Bridge

James McNeill Whistler, 1896

Engraved bust portrait of a smiling man in a long curled wig and dark coat, with French verse below.

Portrait of Nicolas Boileau Despréaux

the elder François Chereau, 1710

Engraved half-length portrait of a bearded man in a dark doublet holding a book, with ruffled white cuffs.

Portrait of the Poet Pietro Aretino, from Cabinet Reynst; Variarum imaginum a celeberrimis artificibus pictarum Caela…

II Cornelis van Dalen, 1655-1660