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Art Institute of Chicago

5,127 works

Pen and ink sketch of armed bandits confronting seated travelers beside a stagecoach, with wounded figures on the ground.

The Stagecoach Holdup

Bartolomeo Pinelli, n.d.

Watercolor of a grove of tall trees by a dark river, with a red-roofed cottage at right and a cloudy sky above.

Grove of Trees (recto), Sketch of Aderley Church (verso)

Peter De Wint, c. 1830

Charcoal drawing of a large tree with a woman reaching upward and a small winged child leaping beside her.

Venus Disarming Cupid

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1852/57

Pen and ink landscape drawing of Saint George on horseback fighting a dragon, with a kneeling figure and distant mountains.

Landscape with Saint George and the Dragon and the Monte Soratte

Joseph Anton Koch, c. 1816

Pen and wash drawing of a crowd of figures ascending through clouds toward heaven, with reaching arms and upturned faces.

Detail Study for The Assumption of St. Agnes

called Il Baciccio Giovanni Battista Gaulli, 1670/90

Architectural design drawing of a church altar with columns, a radiant cross, cherubs, and a colored floor plan below.

Design for an Altar in the Church of the Confraternity of Santissima Trinita, Turin

Filippo Juvara, c. 1734

Pen and wash drawing of a seated bishop saint with mitre, crozier and book, rays of light behind his head.

Saint Willibrord

Abraham Bloemaert, 1625/30

Red chalk drawing of an elderly bearded man in a wide hat and worn coat, holding a small wooden box.

The Old Savoyard

Jean-Antoine Watteau, c. 1715

Pencil portrait of a young man seated at a piano, turning to look at the viewer, with Don Juan sheet music on the stand.

Charles Gounod

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1841

Brown wash drawing of a wounded turbaned man lying on a bed while a seated figure in a cap watches beside him.

Military Hospital

Eugène Delacroix, c. 1824

Red chalk drawing of gods Jupiter and Neptune with eagle, horses and putti presenting a heraldic shield in clouds.

Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto Paying Homage to the Coat of Arms of Cardinal Borghese

Simone Cantarini, early 1640s

Pencil sketch of a garden fountain topped by a putto statue, with trees and shrubs behind, by Hans Thoma.

Fountain with Putti in the Garden of the Villa Borghese

Hans Thoma, 1880

Red chalk landscape drawing of a hilltop castle with towers, cottages, trees and small figures in the foreground.

Landscape with a Castle

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1716/18

Pencil and watercolor landscape of a pale mountain above a valley with farms, viaduct arches, and pine branches in the foregr

Montagne Sainte-Victoire (The Arc Valley)

Paul Cézanne, c. 1885

Brown ink and wash drawing of muscular Hercules standing on a hydra, leaning on a club, with sketches at right.

The Triumphant Hercules with the Vanquished Hydra

Guercino, c. 1618

Pen and ink drawing of a sailing boat with a sail marked LEPIC and a rowboat on calm water, inside a circle.

Plate Design for E. Leveille

Ludovic Napoléon Lepic, 1886/89

Portrait of Maximillian Luce in 1887

Georges Manzana-Pissarro, 1887

Caricature drawing of a man with a large head, curly hair and side whiskers, standing with hands on hips, in chalk.

Caricature of a Man

Étienne Carjat, n.d.

Pencil drawing of a sunlit path winding through a wood, with tall trees and dense shadowed foliage on both sides.

A Sunlit Path through a Wood

Thomas Gainsborough, 1750/59

Watercolor of a waterfall between rocky cliffs, with small figures, a ruined building on the right and a distant town.

Waterfall

Louis Gabriel Moreau, 1788

Watercolor of a harbor fire with billowing smoke, masted ships, a lighthouse tower, and figures on the shore under a grey sky

Fire in the Port

Louis Gabriel Moreau, 1788

Pen and wash drawing of a warship's carved prow, bowsprit and rigging, with a distant harbor tower and another ship beyond.

Study of a Warship's Prow with British Warships and Naples Harbor Beyond

Joseph Vernet, c. 1748

Red and black chalk drawing of a woman with auburn hair glancing sideways, shoulders partly bare, on a tan sheet.

Study for Female Head (verso); Head of Christ (recto)

Carlo Francesco Nuvolone, 1635/40

Pencil drawing of a stand of tall leafy trees with a rolling hill and a small figure in a field.

A Stand of Elm Trees (recto); A Study of East Bergholt with the Church (verso)

John Constable, c. 1802

Pen and ink sketch of nude male figures and winged putti, one putto holding a palm frond, on a pale sheet.

A Study of Bound Male Figures being Manhandled, and Various Putti, One Holding a Palm Frond

Circle of Agostino Carracci, c. 1590

Pen and brown wash drawing of a crowded church interior with columns, where figures gather around a central tomb.

Presentation of the Body of Saint Antoninus of Florence

Giovanni Battista Paggi, 1589/90

Pen and brown ink drawing of two winged putti, a bending male figure, and an arm study on a light sheet.

Studies of a Figure Bending Over, Two Putti, and an Arm (recto); Rest on the Flight into Egypt (verso)

Cesare Rossetti, 1596/97

Brown wash drawing of a central robed figure with a child at left, surrounded by a crowd of bearded men and onlookers.

Suffer the Little Children

Domenico Piola, 1690/1700

Brown wash drawing with Judith and Holofernes studies, an ornate cartouche, and sketches of putti and figures on one sheet.

Judith and Holofernes and Other Studies (recto); Diana and Endymion (verso)

Giuseppe Nicola Nasini, c. 1718

Red chalk drawing of the Presentation in the Temple with an elderly priest holding the infant, the Virgin, and attendant figu

The Presentation in the Temple

Girolamo da Santacroce, n.d.