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Art Institute of Chicago

24,211 works

Red broadside with black relief engravings of dancing and drinking skeletons in hats, surrounded by printed verse columns.

Here is the Calavera Folks, of All Good Defenders

José Guadalupe Posada, n.d.

Mexican broadside print with skeletal calavera figures in dress and dance poses, surrounded by columns of Spanish verse text.

Here is the Calavera, Gentlemen, of all the Little Do-Gooders

José Guadalupe Posada, n.d.

Prince shooting a bow and princess on horseback hunting blackbuck antelope across a green hillside.

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

Unknown artist, Mid-18th century

Yellow broadside by José Guadalupe Posada with printed verses, roses, drummers, a courting couple and a woman with a basket.

All the Little Boys Ask for Their Tarasca

José Guadalupe Posada, n.d.

Pink printed broadside with a woodcut of dressed animals and a guitar player above two columns of Spanish verse.

Very Extravagant Verses

José Guadalupe Posada, 1903

Green printed broadsheet with two song columns, an engraved woman with a book, and a bust portrait of Porfirio Diaz.

March Dedicated to General C. Porfirio Diaz

José Guadalupe Posada, n.d.

Green broadside showing a comet over a city skyline while a crowd looks up in alarm, with printed text below.

Great Comet and Fiery Blaze

José Guadalupe Posada, 1899

Broadside with woodcut scene of figures in period dress and a man sprawled on the ground, with Spanish verse below.

The Disappointment Suffered by Don Chepito

José Guadalupe Posada, n.d.

Blue-ink printed Juego del Coyote game board with a coyote head at center, hens on the path, and farmyard vignettes in the co

Game of the Coyote

Follower of José Guadalupe Posada, n.d.

Posada-style broadside of skeletons playing instruments and holding tools in flames, with verses naming artisans below.

The Artistic Purgatory, Wherein Sprawl the Calaveras of Artists and Artisans

José Guadalupe Posada, n.d.

Printed broadside with an oval portrait of an elderly man in a high collar, honoring Miguel Hidalgo, framed by decorative bor

Long Live the Glorious 16th of September! Honor and Glory to the Priest from Dolores Don Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, I…

José Guadalupe Posada, 1899

Mexican broadside with a large central skull and smaller skulls and bones, surrounded by columns of printed Spanish text.

Pantheon of Miscellany

José Guadalupe Posada, 1919

Broadside print of a skeleton horseman with a lance charging over tumbling skeletons, with verse text in Spanish.

This is Don Quixote's, the First, the Matchless, the Giant Calavera

José Guadalupe Posada, n.d.

Engraved Rococo print of a helmeted warrior with monkeys in military dress, trumpets, flags, and ornate scrollwork.

Les Singes de Mars (The Monkeys of Mars)

Jean Moyreau, 1729

Two etched vignettes: a running man holding a letter in a landscape, and embracing figures beside a tree with horses.

Vignettes for the "New Voyages to the West Indies" by the Chevalier Bossu

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1767

Engraved broadside with a large skull of stacked skeletal forms over crossed bones, title La Gran Calavera, and verse columns

The Great Calavera

José Guadalupe Posada, n.d.

Lithograph of two men dueling with swords in a wooded outdoor setting, with onlookers in the background.

Modern Duel

Francisco Goya, 1825/26

Madame Schmidt (the Artist's Wife)

Georg Friedrich Schmidt, 1753

Brown ink and wash drawing of a group of standing figures in flowing robes, with several heads clustered at the upper left.

Group of Nine Standing Figures

called Parmigianino Francesco Mazzola, 1524/27

Etching of a hunched prisoner bound by chains at the wrists and an ankle shackle, against a dark hatched background.

The Custody is as Barbarous as the Crime ("The Little Prisoner")

Francisco Goya, 1810/20

Blue-gray woodcut of fishermen in two boats on a lake, a robed man gesturing, with mountains in the distance.

The Miraculous Draught of Fishes

Niccolò Vicentino, c. 1540-1550

Brown ink sketch of a city street with a gas lamp, a railing, pedestrians in top hats, and a cart at upper right.

The rue Mosnier with Gas Lamp

Édouard Manet, 1878

Lithograph of a night cityscape with rooftops, a pale church silhouette, and a glowing horizon inside a dark arched frame.

Bastille Day in Montmartre

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1892

Gentleman Rider

Edgar Degas, 1866/70

Pen and ink drawing of a swirling tree rising above tall grass, shrubs, and a fence beside a path.

Weeping Tree

Vincent van Gogh, 1889

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a fur-trimmed cloak and flat cap, with coats of arms and a Latin inscription below.

Elector Frederick the Wise of Saxony

Albrecht Dürer, 1524

Etching of the Virgin descending on clouds with angels above a kneeling monk beside a stone tomb.

The Virgin Appearing to St. Simon Stock

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, after 1743

Etching of a haloed saint seated on a cloud with an open book, angels above, and a church under scaffolding below.

St. Gaetano of Thiene

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, after 1757

Etching of Aeneas presenting young Ascanius to a seated Dido beside a classical colonnade, with armored warriors.

Aeneas Introduces His Son Ascanius to Dido

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, after 1757

Etched sheet with title page, dedication, and two small portraits of a wigged man and a bearded old man.

Title Page, Dedication, Portrait of Giambattista Tiepolo, Bearded Old Man

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1775