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Art Institute of Chicago

24,208 works

Etching of a robed man with a lantern approaching a reclining figure, skull and dogs, beside trees and ruins.

Diogenes Seeking an Honest Man

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1645-47

Sepia drawing of a young woman in a flowing Regency gown holding flowers, with a billowing scarf and strapped sandals.

Young Woman Bearing Flowers

Attributed to Samuel Lane, 1812

Etching of reclining Silenus with satyrs, goats, putti and grapevines in a wooded bacchanal scene.

Silenus Reclining with Goats and Satyrs

Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, n.d.

Etching of the Virgin and Child resting beside a reclining man and a donkey in a landscape, within an octagonal frame.

Rest on the Flight to Egypt

Simone Cantarini, 1630/48

Woodcut of a startled monk grabbed from behind by a skeleton, with an hourglass, column, and clouds.

The Monk

Hans Holbein the Younger, n.d.

Woodcut of a seated physician examining a flask held by a skeleton, with an elderly patient and a dog nearby.

The Physician

Hans Holbein the Younger, n.d.

Woodblock print of travelers with a packhorse by a fence and blossoming tree, with a river and pink clouds behind.

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

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1806

Brown wash drawing of a seated queen on a throne with kneeling figures, guards, and a bearded man holding a staff.

Scene from Racine's Athalie

Charles Abraham Chasselat, 1817

Woodblock print of a tea house at Otsu with a serving woman, a seated traveler, and workers by a water trough.

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

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1806

Woodcut of Christ taking leave of a kneeling woman beside a wooden house, with a distant town and figures in the landscape.

Christ Taking Leave of His Mother, from The Small Woodcut Passion

Albrecht Dürer, c. 1508-09

Japanese woodblock print of a monk in red robes and kneeling figures in armor beneath bare branches, with a radiant light des

The Star Descends on Echi on the Thirteenth Night of the Ninth Month (Kugatsu jusan yoru Echi shoko), from the series…

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, c. 1830/35

Pen and ink drawing of Pontefract Castle with crenellated towers, stone walls, grazing sheep and a village on the hill.

Pontefract Castle

J. Marsden, 1774

Woodblock print of two courtiers beside a wooden veranda and stone wall, with a pine tree and pink clouds.

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

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1806

Woodblock print of two attendants with New Year's offerings of lobster and fish beside a lacquer stand and screen, with calli

Two Young Attendants on New Year's Day from the series "Seven Women as the Gods of Good Fortune for the Hanagasa Poet…

Katsukawa Shuntei, c. 1820

Pen and ink study of the winged head of Mercury above hatched drapery on aged paper.

Mercury

Attributed to Pieter de Jode I, c. 1600

Woodblock print of courtiers in red and green robes with fans beside a carriage, pink clouds and yellow hills behind.

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

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1806

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a cap and fur-trimmed coat, with a coat of arms and castle landscape behind him.

Portrait of Georg Roggenbach

Hanns Lautensack, 1554

Woodcut portrait of a bearded man in a fur-collared robe, with coats of arms in an arched frame, dated 1510.

Elector Frederick III of Saxony, from Speculum intellectuale felicitatis humane

Wolf Traut, 1510

Charcoal drawing on blue paper of a sailboat and figures on a moonlit bay, with a rowboat on the shore in the foreground.

Moonlight on Bay

B. Murch, c. 1800

Ink and wash drawing of a bearded old man seated on the ground, holding a crutch, with a bandaged leg and draped robe.

Seated Old Man with Crutch

Hans Heinrich Meyer, n.d.

Sepia ink drawing of armored soldiers resting by a campfire under a massive gnarled tree, one pointing into the forest.

Soldiers under a Tree

Gustave Doré, n.d.

Woodblock print of a woman with raised arms adjusting her hair, wearing a floral kimono and green obi.

Woman Arranging Her Hair

Kyosen, 1765

Portrait of Philippe Claude André de Thubières, Comte de Caylus

Jean B. A. Gautier d'Agoty, n.d.

Pencil drawing of a fallen horse with saddle beside a dead knight in armor on an open plain with distant hills.

Fallen Horse and Dead Knight

Eugène Delacroix, c. 1827-1829

Drawing of a wind-bent tree beside water, with a grazing cow and distant village under a pale sky.

Bent Tree by the Water

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1860/70

Hand-colored etching of fashionable figures dancing before pink theatre curtains on a wooden floor, 1817.

La Poule

George Cruikshank, published June 4, 1817

Hand-colored print of three dandies making music in a drawing room, with a poodle, sheet music and framed paintings.

Humming Birds, or A Dandy Trio

George Cruikshank, published July 15, 1819

Woodcut of St. Matthew writing at a desk while an angel appears above him among clouds, with a landscape behind.

St. Matthew, from The Luther Bible

Georg Lemberger, 1523

Hand-colored caricature of comically awkward couples waltzing in a ballroom with a gilt mirror and chandeliers.

Inconvenient Partners in Waltzing

Isaac Robert Cruikshank, 1817/19

Wartime poster of two soldiers with a rifle and sword protecting a woman before flames, reading Halt the Hun, buy bonds.

Halt the Hun! Buy U.S. Government Bonds Third Liberty Loan

Henry Patrick Raleigh, 1918