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Art Institute of Chicago

24,211 works

Anne Countess Cowper

Francesco Bartolozzi, published January 12, 1798

Woman on a stool drawing on a wall as a child clings to her skirt, beside a flower basket, urn and pedestal lamp.

First Idea of Design

after Francesco Bartolozzi, n.d.

Engraved oval portrait of Louis XVI in embroidered coat with orders, within an ornate frame and royal coat of arms below.

Louis Seize

Francesco Bartolozzi, n.d.

Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor holding a blue kite beside a flowering plum branch, with calligraphy at left.

Actor on Kite

Satō Hōdai, 1865

Pen drawing of figures in an arched interior beside an ornate casket, with a bearded man holding a staff and hills beyond.

The Litany of Mary Magdalen

Aubrey Beardsley, 1891

Pen and ink drawing of a woman in a plumed hat and scalloped gown, with the name Réjane inside a black border.

Madame Réjane

imitator of Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, 1892/98

Engraving of a haloed nude man tied to a column, attacked by three tormentors in a vaulted colonnaded hall.

The Flagellation

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia, 1509

Ink drawing of a woman with a tall piled hairstyle and flowing gown beside a stylized tree on a black hill.

Woman with Elaborate Coiffure

imitator of Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, 1892/98

Woman Against Striped Wallpaper

imitator of Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, 1892/98

Engraving of a standing nude woman with long hair and drapery, set in a landscape with hills and distant buildings.

Venus

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia, c. 1513

Mezzotint oval portrait of a man with curly hair and draped garment, with engraved Latin inscription below.

Portrait of Godfrey

Isaac Beckett, 1685

Red chalk drawing of cattle and sheep with a horseback shepherd and a seated shepherdess beneath a tree in a landscape.

Cattle and Sheep with Shepherds and Shepherdess

Abraham Begeyn, n.d.

Japanese surimono showing twelve zodiac animals in a silhouette band above columns of calligraphy, by Indai, 1866.

Zodiac Surimono

Indai, 1866

Engraving of nude men wielding clubs fighting centaurs, with a rearing horse at left, under a banner reading Aerumnae Herculi

Hercules and the Centaurs, from Labors of Hercules

Sebald Beham, 1542

Woodblock print of a striding tiger on a hanging scroll with blue patterned mount and Japanese calligraphy above.

Tiger

Jujoen, 1866

Engraving of Hercules with a bow facing a wounded centaur, Nessus, beside trees and rocks, with a city in the distance.

Hercules and Nessus, from The Labors of Hercules

Sebald Beham, 1542

Engraving of Hercules carrying two columns on his shoulders through a classical courtyard with arches and a domed building.

Hercules Carrying the Columns of Gades, from The Labors of Hercules

Sebald Beham, 1545

Etching of two figures in a dark interior, one reclining near a bright window with curtains.

Intimacy

Albert Besnard, 1889

Etching of a nude woman sleeping with her head on her arm across rumpled cushions, with loose hatched background.

The Sleeping Model

Albert Besnard, 1885

Pen and blue wash drawing of a radiant monstrance surrounded by angels, putti and clouds beneath a seated figure.

Adoration of the Host

Attributed to Luigi Garzi, n.d.

Ink and wash drawing of nude figures fighting through violent floodwaters under a stormy sky, with a mountain peak in the bac

The Flood

William Young Ottley, c. 1790-1810

Pencil and wash drawing of a seated soldier in uniform and cap, holding and smoking a pipe, signed A. Bloch 1897.

A Good Pipe

Alexandre Bloch, 1897

Pencil sketch of a kneeling soldier with a bayonet-fixed rifle beside a stone wall and spent cartridges on the ground.

Wounded Soldier Loading his Rifle

Alexandre Bloch, c. 1897

Watercolor of misty Venetian canal with gondolas and standing gondoliers, pale blue sky and faint distant boats.

Gondolas, Grand Canal, Venice

Robert Frederick Blum, n.d.

Grey watercolor of two men working inside a wooden room, one pounding paddy with a pestle and one sweeping grain near a barre

Pestling the Paddy

Robert Frederick Blum, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of a seated bearded man in draped robes, hands clasped, on an arched tinted sheet.

Christ in the Garden

Attributed to Giovanni Stefano Marucelli, n.d.

Etching of a woman in a headscarf holding a pear at a stone ledge beside a dark window opening.

Woman with the Pear

Ferdinand Bol, 1651

Brown wash drawing of a bearded man pointing away as a woman and child stand beside a tree and stone arch with a dog.

Abraham Sending Away Hagar and Ishmael

John Hamilton Mortimer, n.d.

Engraved bust portrait of a bearded man with long wavy hair and fur-trimmed cloak, with Latin inscription below.

Portrait of Raphael

Giulio Bonasone, c. 1518

Lithograph of a tall clock tower above gabled houses, with a covered cart and people in a town street.

The Tower Marketplace

Richard Parkes Bonington, n.d.