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Art Institute of Chicago

24,208 works

Woodcut of a chaotic battle with pikemen, mounted knights, burning houses and fleeing villagers among livestock.

The Second War in Gueldres, from The Triumphal Arch of Maximilian I

School of Albrecht Dürer, 1515-17

Engraved theatre scene of costumed performers around a bust on a pedestal, with an audience in tiered boxes and stone arches.

Crowning of Voltaire

Charles-Étienne Gaucher, 1778-82

Woodcut of a battle with pikemen, knights, cannon smoke and soldiers climbing ladders against a walled city.

The Expulsion of the Hungarians from Lower Austria, from The Triumphal Arch of Maximilian I

School of Albrecht Dürer, 1515-17

Engraving of a boy with a letter seated in a woodland with a dog, sheep and basket, within an oval ivy-garland frame.

Le Départ du Courrier (The Departing of the Courrier)

Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet, c.1765-1769

Etching of nude Adam holding an apple beside a tree with a serpent at his feet, with cherub heads in the clouds above.

Adam

I Daniel Hopfer, by 1522

Engraving of a young woman reaching toward a branch with a bird flying nearby, a sheep and dog beside her, in an oval ivy fra

La Retour du Courrier (The return of the courrier)

Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet, C.1765-1769

Engraving of nude Eve standing by a fruit tree with an angel flying through clouds above.

Eve

I Daniel Hopfer, by 1522

Engraving of a couple embracing in an elegant bedroom with a canopied bed, striped chair, and wall sconces.

Le Repentir Tardif (The Tardy Repentance)

Gérard René Le Vilain, c. 1760-1790

Etching of three turbaned mounted soldiers riding together, with horses, bow and quiver in the foreground.

Three Turkish Soldiers (Cavalrymen)

Daniel I Hopfer, c. 1520

Engraving of a woman and toddler in a parlour, with a seated man at a tea table and toys on the floor, in an oval floral fram

C'est papa! (It's papa!)

Nicolas Delaunay, 1792

Woodblock print of travelers in straw hats passing pine trees and a red wooden building beneath green hills.

Seki, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)"

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1806

Black-and-white print of a flood with crowds drowning, people on rooftops, a large ark on the left, and a town on the right.

The Deluge

Melchior Lorck, after 1548

Engraving of elegantly dressed people conversing in a neoclassical drawing room with a chandelier and a small dog on the floo

The Assembly in the Drawing Room

François Dequevauviller, 1783

Engraving of putti hammering a tongue on an anvil among classical ruins, with a dragon and sleeping figures below.

Fate of the Evil Tongue

Nicoletto da Modena, c. 1507

Seated Girl with Basket

Edith Langdale, 1876

Pen drawing in a circle of a chariot drawn by two stags, with an hourglass, sickle, and winged figure.

The Triumph of Time (recto); Sketch of a Stag (verso)

Style of Dirk Vellert, c. 1517

Woodblock print of a seated man on a veranda, a woman and child below, a basket, tree and hillside.

Sakanoshita, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)"

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1806

Etching of a large elephant facing a group of robed figures at left, against a dark hatched background.

Animal Folly, from Disparates

Francisco Goya, 1816-17, published 1877

Etching of a haloed bearded figure reclining in a rocky tomb with a sleeping child, an angel with a palm above.

The Bodies of Saints Peter and Paul in the Same Sepulcher

Claude Vignon, 1620

Black-and-white print of a painter at an easel with a bourgeois man leaning over him and a woman watching in a studio.

Painter and the Bourgeois

Charles Maurand, 1862, printed 1920

Etching of a bearded painter with palette beside an admiring man, both facing a canvas showing a candlestick and pipe.

One Realist Will Always Find Another Realist who Admires His Work

Etienne, 1869, printed 1920

Lithograph of two top-hatted men looking up as one points toward an ornate shape, with onlookers and a draped curtain behind.

At the Universal Exposition: The Perfect Guide

Julien Antoine Peulot, 1867, printed 1920

Print of two standing men in robes beside a woman in a long dress walking past an arched building with a crowd behind.

At the Universal Exhibition: Who are the real Chinese?

Charles Maurand, 1867, printed 1920

Head of Christ, in Three-Quarter Profile, to Right

Possibly Giovanni Antonio Guardi, n.d.

Engraving of a top-hatted man, a woman in a headscarf, and a child viewing Egyptian relief carvings in an exhibition hall.

At the Universal Exposition: The Egyptian Section

Julien Antoine Peulot, 1867, printed 1920

Print of top-hatted visitors resting on a bench in a crowded salon lined with framed paintings, with a child at right.

Paris, The great Art exhibition: In the Great Salon, A moment of reflection

Etienne, 1868, printed 1920

Engraved print of three men finishing a painting in a studio, one touching up a canvas with a brush.

The Paintings Exhibition of 1868: Giving it the last touch

Etienne, 1868, printed 1920

Print of a man and woman dining at a crowded restaurant, with framed paintings on the wall and a carafe on the table.

The Restaurant of the Great Art Exhibition: A symbiotic love for the arts and the cutlet

Etienne, 1868, printed 1920

Black and white engraving of men examining prints in a room crowded with framed paintings and sculptures on the walls.

Les amateurs d'estampes, from Tirage Unique de Trente-Six Bois

François Louis Schmied, 1868, printed 1920

Engraving of a theater audience of caricatured men in armchairs, a central man reading a newspaper, under an ornate balcony.

Fauteuils d'orchestre, from Tirage Unique de Trente-Six Bois

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1878, printed 1920