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Art Institute of Chicago

5,126 works

Pen and ink drawing of the seated Virgin holding the infant Christ, both with haloes, on toned paper.

Virgin and Child (recto); Putti (verso)

Florentine or Vicentine, n.d.

Black chalk drawing on blue paper of an angel with outstretched arms and feathered wings, modeled with white highlights.

Angel

Jacapo Bassano, c. 1575

Pen and brown ink drawing of a standing woman in a draped gown and shawl, with hatched shading on a pale sheet.

Full-Length Figure of a Woman

Sienese Italian, n.d.

Pen and ink sketch of a papal figure in a vaulted hall surrounded by seated and standing robed courtiers.

Study for Pius IV Investing Cosimo I as Grand Master of the Order of Saint Stephen (?)

called Passignano Domenico Cresti, c. 1596

Pen and ink drawing on blue paper of Christ walking on water beside a boat with startled figures and a billowing sail.

Christ Walking on the Water, Peter Following

Domenico Campagnola, c. 1550

Pen and ink sketch of an angel above a Nativity scene with Virgin, infant Christ, ox, donkey and an elderly man.

Nativity (recto); Virgin and Child, Angel (verso)

Attributed to Filippo Bellini, or his circle, 1570/1603

Pen and brown ink drawing of a battle with mounted soldiers, pikemen, fallen figures and a walled town behind.

Battle Scene

Attributed to Antonio Maria Viani, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of Neptune in a chariot pulled by white horses, with a sea serpent and putto among waves.

Neptune

Possibly after Paris Bordone, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a woman's head with closed eyes and flowing hair outlines on tan paper, inscribed Anatolia and Modigliani.

Head of Anatolia

Amedeo Modigliani, 1900/20

Pastel drawing of a woman in pink reading music beside a man in evening dress, with a conductor and orchestra under a chandel

The Orchestra

Jean-Louis Forain, c. 1880

Watercolor of a red-coated rider on a rearing dark horse with a hound running below, a second rider in the distance.

I'll Soon Take All This Out of Him...

Henry Alken, 1827

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a man in a pink coat and top hat riding a galloping grey horse across an open field.

Oh, You Should Have Seen Old Tom

Henry Alken, 1827

Watercolor of a rider in a red coat jumping a wooden fence on a brown horse, with a spotted hound below.

Pink Coated Rider

Henry Alken, 1827

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a man in a top hat and red coat riding a galloping grey horse past a running hound.

A Real Miltonian

Henry Alken, 1827

Grey wash drawing of four winged putti, two floating among clouds above and two seated on a cloud below.

Four Putti

probably the style of Giovanni Battista Gaulli, n.d.

Pencil and watercolor study of a man in a wide hat seated at a table, bent over cards, rendered in blue-gray washes.

A Study for the Card Players

Paul Cézanne, 1890-92

Fan-shaped Japanese print of a robed priest with staff and a kneeling attendant beside a reedy stream, birds overhead, poem t

The Priest Kobo Daishi at the Tama River in Kii Province from the series The Six Tama Rivers

Torii Kiyomasu II, c. 1725-1735

Drawing of an elderly bearded man with bald head and lowered eyes, rendered in grey wash with white highlights.

Study of the Head of a Bearded Man

Abraham Bloemaert, 1595/1605

Charcoal drawing of a rushing mountain torrent between dark wooded hills under a stormy sky.

A Mountain Torrent

David Cox the elder, c. 1850

Pencil and white chalk drawing of figures resting under trees on a grassy bank beside a distant river.

The Woodcutters' Repast

John Linnell, 1815

Black chalk and white highlight drawing of a bearded man with curly hair turning toward the viewer on tan paper.

Self-Portrait

Auguste Barthélémy Glaize, c. 1830

Soft-toned drawing of a woman asleep with bowed head, folded hands and dark dress against a shadowy background.

Portrait of the Artist's Wife Asleep (Marie Guilloux)

Albert Lebourg, c. 1880

Two small octagonal ink and wash vignettes with handwritten quotations: draped women above, winged figures and animals below.

Study for a plate from The Task

Thomas Stothard, c. 1800

Three small grey wash vignettes on cream paper showing a reclining figure, two swans, and a seated figure under a tree.

Study for a plate from Telemachus

Thomas Stothard, c. 1797

Indian painting of a royal procession with elephants, horsemen and a sage beside hunting dogs and tigers.

Four Princes in Procession Visit a Sage, page from a copy of the Ramayana

Unknown artist, c. 1820-1840

Painted lion with gold star dots on a manuscript page, with red Arabic title above, from a Timurid star book.

The Constellation Leo, folio probably from the Kitab suwar al-kawakib al-thabita (Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars)

Unknown artist, Timurid dynasty (ca. 1370-1507), dated c.1500

Illuminated Qur'an page with five panels of Arabic calligraphy in gold and blue cartouches and a floral arabesque border.

Right-Hand Page from the Qur'an

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

Persian miniature of men gathered in a courtyard with musicians, a reclining figure, flowering trees and a horse.

Judge (Qazi) of Hamadan in a Drunken State, a scene from the Gulistan of Sa'di

Unknown artist, about 1550

Miniature painting of a seated ruler under a canopy with courtiers and chained prisoners in a flowering garden.

Chained Prisoners are Brought Before a King, a scene from the Gulistan of Sa'di

Unknown artist, c. 1550

Painted Indian folio: a serpent arches over a palace while figures in blue and red move toward a bed, with lotuses below.

The Infant Krishna Spirited Away by Vasudev, from a copy of the Dispersed Bhagavat Purana

Unknown artist, c. 1520-1530