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

Art Institute of Chicago

13,158 works

Woodblock print of a bearded warrior seated under white blossoms beside a large jar, with a poem cartouche above.

No. 3: Zhang Fei (Sono san: Chohi), from the series "Three Heroes of Shu (Shoku sanketsu)"

Yashima Gakutei, c. 1824

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in a blossom-patterned white kimono with a floating paper, framed by an ornamental border

Ono no Komachi, from the series "Framed Pictures of Women for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushikaren gakumen fujin awase)"

Yashima Gakutei, c. 1822

Woodblock print of a seated courtesan in a patterned kimono holding a scroll, with hairpins and calligraphy beside her.

Kyoto: Courtesan of the Shimabara, from an untitled series of the three capitals

Yashima Gakutei, c. 1820s/30s

Etching of a ruined stone tower under a full moon, with palm trees and a rocky ravine in the foreground.

A Tower of Cortez

Thomas Moran, 1883

Engraving of a nude crowned queen holding a severed head as a soldier places it in a sack, with an armed guard behind.

Tamiris, from Greek Heroines

Georg Pencz, c. 1539

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor as a courtesan in a patterned robe, with blossoms and a dark sky behind her.

The actor Iwai Kumesaburo II as the courtesan Katsuragi in the play "Oichiza Soga no Shimadai," performed at the Kawa…

Utagawa Kunisada I, 1827

Engraving of the Virgin nursing the Christ Child by a window with a castle view, a chair and table in the room.

Virgin and Child by the Window

Barthel Beham, n.d.

Watercolor of a woman in black and a small girl in white leaning at a balcony railing over a distant domed city.

On the Balcony

Berthe Morisot, 1871/72

Engraved decorative letter M filled with scrollwork and two grotesque masks, one bearded and one horned.

Letter M

Peter Aubry, 1630

Engraved ornamental letter N with dense scrollwork and three human faces, one with curly hair, one grimacing, one with a bun.

Letter N

Peter Aubry, 1630

Engraved letter Q filled with scrolling ornament, cherub heads, and three grotesque masks in the center.

Letter Q

Peter Aubry, 1630

Engraved decorative letter R with scrolling ornament and several grotesque bearded and foliate masks.

Letter R

Peter Aubry, 1630

Engraved letter T in baroque scrollwork with two male heads set beside its stem, on a cream paper sheet.

Letter T

Peter Aubry, 1630

Ink drawing of the letter W made of ornate scrollwork, with three human faces among the curls.

Letter W

Peter Aubry, 1630

Engraved letter Z made of Baroque scrollwork, surrounded by six grotesque and character heads including Medusa.

Letter Z

Peter Aubry, 1630

Pen and wash drawing of a flying winged figure over seated draped women, a putto, and a colonnaded building in a landscape.

Study for Mercury and Herse

Laurent de La Hyre, c. 1649

Print of a Gothic church behind a dense oak grove, with tombs and a cemetery in the foreground and two walking figures.

Gothic Church Behind an Oak Grove with Tombs

Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1810

Engraving of a nude man with a sword beneath trees, an owl perched above, and a tower in the distance.

The Fatal Bellman

George Richmond, 1827

Etching of figures beside a large tree and a white horse, with armed riders in the background, signed Gabriel de Saint-Aubin,

The Escape of M. de Belle-Isle, Prisoner in the Attakapas, plate four from Les Nouveaux Voyages aux Indes Occidentales

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1767

Gentoo Beggar

Thomas Daniell, n.d.

Engraved ornamental design for a goblet with a central face in a beaded headdress, surrounded by scrolls and flowers.

Plate 2, from twenty ornamental designs for goblets and beakers

Master A.P., 1604

Etched ornamental design for a goblet with cherub heads, scrollwork, and acanthus leaves, numbered 3.

Plate 3, from twenty ornamental designs for goblets and beakers

Master A.P., 1604

Etched goblet design with scrollwork, human heads, and a river town scene in an oval cartouche, numbered 4.

Plate 4, from twenty ornamental designs for goblets and beakers

Master A.P., 1604

Etched ornamental design for a goblet with a crowned bearded figure riding a sea creature amid scrollwork and foliage.

Plate 11, from twenty ornamental designs for goblets and beakers

Master A.P., 1604

Engraved design for a tapering goblet with scrolling foliage, a female bust, cherub heads and fruit garlands.

Plate 13, from twenty ornamental designs for goblets and beakers

Master A.P., 1604

Engraved design for an ornate goblet with a reclining sea god and trident in a roundel, surrounded by scrollwork and masks.

Plate 15, from twenty ornamental designs for goblets and beakers

Master A.P., 1604

Engraved ornamental plate showing Neptune with a trident riding a sea horse, framed by scrollwork and masks.

Plate 18, from twenty ornamental designs for goblets and beakers

Master A.P., 1604

Etched ornamental design with scrollwork, a goblet form, a reclining figure in an oval, a lion mask, and a dog below.

Plate 20, from twenty ornamental designs for goblets and beakers

Master A.P., 1604

Engraved ornamental design of a flared goblet with scrolls, a central figure, and a lower band of oval panels and cherub head

Plate 5, from XX Stuck zum (ornamental designs for goblets and beakers)

Master A.P., 1601

Engraved ornamental design for a goblet with scrollwork and an oval scene of a winged figure beside a reclining nude.

Plate 6, from XX Stuck zum (ornamental designs for goblets and beakers)

Master A.P., 1601