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

Art Institute of Chicago

24,211 works

Grey wash drawing of a seated cobbler with hammer and leather, shoe lasts on shelves behind him, and a dog asleep nearby.

The Cobbler

A. Faslin[k], 19th century

Woodblock print of the smiling Hotei seated on a sack playing a zither, with blue cloth and a yellow background.

Hotei seated on a sack playing a zither, from an untitled series of harimaze

Katsushika Taito II, c. 1830s

Woodblock print of travelers, a woman riding an ox, and porters on a shore with waves, islands, and a distant mountain.

Enoshima

Katsushika Hokusai, Unknown

Black chalk and white heightened drawing of a wolf and a lamb in a leafy landscape, on blue-grey paper.

Fable of the Wolf and the Lamb

J. F. Wieland, c. 1724

Triptych woodblock print of three dancers in sparrow costumes with feathered headdresses against striped panels.

Sparrow dancers, from "A Set of Six for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushika rokuban tsuzuki)"

Yashima Gakutei, c. 1827/28

Green-toned print of a helmeted female bust in a stone plaque with French inscriptions commemorating Champlain and a 1912 mon

France

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1912

Etching of a woman refusing a cup offered by a kneeling servant, with an older figure gesturing, a canopied bed, and an arche

Sophonisba Receiving the Poisoned Cup

Pieter Pietersz Lasman, n.d.

Etched frontispiece with draped curtains, a central coat of arms, French title text and tiny soldiers in the landscape.

Frontispiece to Drawings of Several Movements by Soldiers

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of figures burying the dead beside a stone tomb, with a dog and a standing figure in a rocky setting.

Tobit Burying the Dead

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1647/51

Lithograph of a tiger leaping onto a wild horse that collapses on dark, shadowed ground.

Wild Horse Brought Down by a Tiger

Eugène Delacroix, 1828

Woodblock print of a fox leaping with clawed paws and a bushy tail, drawn in fine ink strokes within a border.

Fox, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1814

Woodblock print of two waterfowl, one upside down with webbed feet extended, against a grey ground with white snow flecks.

Two Waterfowl, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1814

Woodblock print of a male pheasant with a long striped tail and pink wings, head bowed, scattered pink petals on a pale groun

Male Pheasant, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1814

Woodblock print of a hawk perched on a dark branch with leafy sprigs, head turned upward, in muted grey and cream tones.

Hawk, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1814

Woodblock print of irises with brown and pink petals, green leaves and buds, by Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1814.

Iris, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1814

Woodblock print of white peony blossoms and green leaves in a patterned woven basket against a cream background.

Chrysanthemums in a Basket, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1814

Woodblock print of a turnip plant with green serrated leaves and a small yellow wasp flying beside it.

Wasp and turnip stalk, from "The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)"

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1814

Woodblock print of a blooming plum branch with pink blossoms on grey bark, set against a pale cream background.

Blooming Plum Tree, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1814

Woodblock print of white chrysanthemum blooms with yellow centers and green leaves on a branching tree trunk.

Flowers, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1814

Half-Length Portrait of Woman in Profile, Facing Right

Peltro William Tomkins, n.d.

Woodblock print of snowy Mount Fuji behind a pine tree, thatched houses and small boats on a winter shoreline.

Mount Fuji in Winter, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1814

Woodblock print of a haloed goddess in flowing robes riding a white dragon through clouds against a dark ground.

Goddess Riding a Dragon, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1814

Woodblock print of a craftsman bending over a wooden pillar beside a mortar and pestle, with green leaves scattered on the fl

Craftsman working on Temple, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1814

Woollen print of a seated man in a patterned robe gazing up at two butterflies, with a fan, sword and jar nearby.

A Philosopher Watching a Pair of Butterflies, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashi…

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1814

Hokusai woodblock print of the plump deity Hotei seated on a mat, smoking a long pipe beside a large sack.

Hotei Smoking his Pipe, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1814

Two white rabbits in ink outline on a pale ground, one with a red eye, among scattered grass tufts, from a Hokusai woodblock

Two Rabbits, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1814

Color woodblock print of a rider on a horse crossing a river bank with a walking companion and a crouching figure.

No. 22: Okabe, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)"

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1805

Woodblock print of two wooden tools on dark blocks under a night sky with falling flecks, with a red seal and calligraphy.

Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Nijushiko), section of a sheet from the series "A Harimaze Mirror of Joruri Pla…

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1854

Engraving of a woman in a long gown writing at a tree trunk while a spaniel watches from a stone bench.

Le Chiffre d'amour (The Cipher of Love)

Nicolas Delaunay, 1786

Woodblock print of a cloaked traveler and a porter with yellow crates on a pole, with Mount Fuji behind them.

Numazu, section of a sheet from the series "A Harimaze Mirror of Joruri Plays (Harimaze joruri kagami)"

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1854