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Art Institute of Chicago

5,127 works

Pencil sketch of the Virgin standing on clouds, surrounded by kneeling and flying angels and cherubs.

Adoration of the Virgin

Possibly Antoine Rivalz, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of Noah overseeing workers building the ark, with a ladder and wooden framework against a cloudy landscape.

Noah Supervising Construction of the Ark

Attributed to Nicolas Dorigny, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of a kneeling nude male figure with bent torso and clasped hands, shaded in academic style.

Kneeling Academic Male Nude

Antoine Dumont, n.d.

Sheet of brown wash studies showing many heads, including female faces, profiles, a hooded old man, and an eagle head.

Sketches of Heads

After Jean Demosthene Dugourc, n.d.

Pen and ink sketch of two women and a baby beside a standing man, with a rider on horseback sketched below.

Two Sketches: Two Women and Baby with Man Looking On

George Louis Pamella Busson Dumaurier, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of Moses striking a rock as water flows and a crowd of robed figures gathers around the spring.

Moses Drawing Water from the Rock

Possibly after Charles Le Brun, n.d.

Pen and brown ink drawing of a man and woman talking beside a column in a classical landscape with hills and trees.

Unidentified Mythological Scene with Man and Woman Conversing in Classical Landscape

Attributed to François Roettiers, n.d.

Profile Bust of Young Woman

After François Boucher, n.d.

Watercolor of a ruined columned villa at sunset, with cattle wading in a river and a shepherd under autumn trees.

Evening in Italy - the Deserted Villa

Samuel Palmer, 1845

Pen and brown ink study of a winged trumpeter above a curved tier of figures waving banners in an oval composition.

Study for Allegory of Two Quartieri of Florence

Giorgio Vasari, 1563/65

Red chalk drawing of a nude male figure turning his head and pulling a sheet of drapery, with loose hatched shading.

Man Tugging on Sheet: Study for the Entombment [Sacristy of the Certosa di San Martino, Naples, 1596]

called Il Cavalier d'Arpino Giuseppe Cesari, 1595/96

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Holy Family with infant Saint John and Saint Anne beneath a draped curtain.

Holy Family with the Infant Saint John and Saint Anne

Style of Raffaellino da Reggio, n.d.

Chalk drawing of a woman's head with curled hair on tan paper, with a small sketch to the right.

Head of a Woman

Antonio Balestra, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of Saint Lawrence standing on a cloud beside a gridiron, gazing upward with one arm extended.

Saint Lawrence in Glory

Sigismondo Caula, n.d.

Pen and brown ink sketch of four draped figures standing together, including a small figure in the center, on a light paper s

Departure of Tobit (recto); Sketch of Crucifixion (verso)

Genoese Italian, n.d. (recto); n.d. (verso)

Pen and wash sketch of classical figures: two standing youths, seated women in draped robes, and figures in an interior.

Cornelia Exhibiting Her Two Sons to a Friend

Livio Mehus, n.d.

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of robed figures and soldiers in a rocky landscape, with a cross on a hill and grid lines

Saint Andrew Led to Martyrdom

Attributed to Niccolò Circignani, called Il Pomarancio, n.d.

Pen and grey wash drawing of a winged angel bending toward a kneeling bald man, with two cherub heads in the upper right.

Communion of Saint Stanislaus Kostka

Circle of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, n.d.

Red chalk portrait of a young boy with wavy hair and a loose collar, looking directly at the viewer.

Portrait of a Young Boy

Charles Beale, c. 1680

Pen and brown ink landscape drawing of a large tree by a riverbank with distant buildings and an empty sky.

Landscape with River Bank

Possibly Annibale Carracci, n.d.

Pen drawing of a crowded battle scene with armored soldiers, horses, spears, shields and banners on aged paper.

Roman Conquest

Follower of Girolamo Sellari, called Girolamo da Carpi, n.d.

Pen and brown ink study of an extended academic arm with hatched shading on a narrow sheet of paper.

Academic Arm, Extended

Circle of Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1500/10

Pen and wash drawing of a haloed saint kneeling as executioners raise clubs and swords, with onlookers and architecture behin

Martyrdom of a Saint

Workshop of Vicencio Carducho, 1626/32

Red chalk drawing of a seated woman in draped cloth holding a child, with a partial second figure at lower left.

Seated Mother and Child

Circle of Giovanni Bilivert, n.d.

Pen and brown wash drawing of a woman with raised arm and two cherubs behind her, with grass and clouds in a landscape.

Woman in Flight

Attributed to Carlo Cignani, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin Mary ascending among angels while robed apostles look up from below.

Assumption of the Virgin

After Giacinto Calandrucci, after 1703

Brown wash drawing of satyrs, a satyress and putti on a spandrel beneath a fruit garland, on blue-grey paper.

Study for Spandrel Decoration with Satyress, Satyrs, and Putti (recto); Head of Putto (verso)

Paolo Farinati, c. 1588

Pen and wash drawing of clergy in procession beside an arched bridge, with marching soldiers and cavalry on a hill.

Pope Visiting Construction Site of a Bridge

Possibly attributed to Ciro Ferri, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of an oval spandrel with mythological figures flanked by a bearded man and a seated youth in scrollwork.

Spandrel with Rape of Orytheia Flanked by Hercules and Omphale

Possibly after Ciro Ferri, n.d.

Loose graphite sketch of a robed standing figure beside a winged figure and faint architectural lines.

Unidentified Biblical Scene (recto); Sketches (verso)

Possibly Ciro Ferri, n.d.