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Art Institute of Chicago

24,198 works

Large etched panoramic print of a naval siege with ships, rowboats, a fortified town, and soldiers fighting on shore.

Siege of the Citadel of Saint Martin on the Isle de Ré

Jacques Callot, 1631

Drawing of an older man in round spectacles, white cap, and blue-edged hat with a striped neck scarf, against dark background

Self-Portrait with a Visor

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, c. 1776

Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor with dramatic makeup and patterned robe against stylized blue waves.

The Actor Ichikawa Sadanji as Akechi Samenosuke, from the series "Seven Brilliant Heroes (Komei shichi yosei)"

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1876

Charcoal and white chalk sketch of winged angels, clouds and robed figures in a dense celestial composition on tan paper.

Group Composition from Fantasia Enchained

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl, 1873/75

Engraving of a courtyard with a fountain, peacock, musician and children, beside a columned portico with a heraldic crest.

An Allegory of Relations between the Generations

Pieter Serwouters, 1608

Woodblock print of a giant serpent and ghostly figure attacking fleeing men beside a cave, with a text panel and title cartou

General Tamichi, from the series A Mirror of Famous Japanese Generals

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1880

Etching of a dim harbor at night with moored ships, a rowboat with one figure, and reflections in the water.

Rainy Night

Otto H. Bacher, 1880/1882

Etched portrait of a man in a cap leaning on a ledge, with a small sketched head below and diagonal lines across.

The Engraver Joseph Tourny

Edgar Degas, 1857

Engraving of Hercules with a lion skin and club as a man hands him a torn garment before classical architecture.

Lichas Bringing the Garment of Nessus to Hercules, from The Labors of Hercules

Sebald Beham, 1542

Historiated initial E showing the Virgin and Child receiving three kings on a blue ground with gold and foliate border.

The Adoration of the Magi in a Historiated Initial "E" from a Choirbook

Unknown artist, 1375/1425

Woodblock print of a bearded kabuki actor in a dragon-patterned robe beside a full moon on a black night sky.

Ichikawa Danjūrō IX as Kezori Kuemon

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, About 1890

Pastel portrait of a smiling man with a bald crown, turned three-quarters, against a tan background.

Self-Portrait

Maurice Quentin de La Tour, c. 1737

Illuminated initial E with a seated bearded saint surrounded by female saints and other figures, in red, green and gold.

Saints Barbara, Catherine, Andrew, John the Baptist, Lawrence and Thomas à Beckett in a Historiated Initial "E" from…

Unknown artist, 1460/70

Japanese woodblock triptych of a kabuki actor in a blue robe beside snowy pine branches, with falling snow and smoke.

The Actor Onoe Kikugoro V as the Priest Sogen (Yuki: Iwakura Sogen Onoe Baiko), from the series "Snow, Moon, and Flow…

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1890

Etching of a castle on a wooded hilltop above a village with a church steeple, framed by a tree on the left.

Castle on a Hilltop

Hanns Lautensack, 1553

Pencil landscape drawing of bare trees, pollarded willows and a winding path across an open field under a pale sky.

Landscape in Montfoucault

Camille Pissarro, 1864

Triptych print of a flute player in pink robes under a full moon, with a crouching warrior in blue among tall grasses.

Fujiwara no Yasumasa Playing His Flute in the Moonlight

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, About 1883

Etching of a nude woman seen from behind stepping from a bath while a figure holds out a towel in a domestic interior.

Leaving the Bath

Edgar Degas, 1879-80

Etching of a Venetian palace doorway with a gondola on a canal and a figure standing in the dark central arch.

The Palace Doorway, plate 22 from the North Italian Set

David Young Cameron, 1895

Triptych print of a kabuki actor in black robe and pink kimono with a fan, dark blue background, calligraphy panel at right.

The actor Ichikawa Danjuro IX as Musashibo Benkei in the play "The Subscription List (Kanjincho)"

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1890

Engraved interior view of St. Peter's Basilica showing the baldacchino, dome, coffered arches and worshippers on the marble f

Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome, Italy, Interior View

Frederick Philip Dinkelberg, 1878

Brown ink and wash drawing of Christ before a kneeling woman and a crowd of robed men in an architectural interior.

Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, 1650/74

Etching of cattle wading in a pool beneath large trees, with grassy banks and a hazy distant horizon.

Cattle by a Pool

Charles-François Daubigny, c. 1850

Woodblock print of an eggplant branch with purple fruit, white flowers, green leaves, and a gray butterfly in the upper right

Eggplant with fruit and flowers

Ônishi Chinnen, 1829

Woodblock print of a gnarled plum branch with dark blossoms and red calligraphy inscription on a pale background.

Blossoming red plum branch

Suzuki Kiitsu, c.1850

Two dressed rats on a red mat, one holding a brush beside an inkstone, with Japanese calligraphy text across the sheet.

Two formally dressed rats about to execute the first calligraphy of the year

Shibata Zeshin, 1888

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor holding a letter inside a diamond fence frame, with a red lantern below.

The Actor Kawarazaki Gonjuro I, from the series "Reminiscences of Elegant Actors (Fuga wazaogi shinobu)"

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1862

Woodblock print of men unloading straw bales and cargo from docked wooden boats, with calligraphy columns in the sky.

Docked boats

Numata Gessai, c.1831

Japanese print of colored poem slips hanging from a pine branch, with a writing desk, brush, and inkstone at right.

Poem Slips

Insai, 1855

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in a blue patterned kimono framed by a circular hoop with chrysanthemums and a lantern.

The Actor Sawamura Tanosuke III, from the series "Reminiscences of Elegant Actors (Fuga wazaogi shinobu)"

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1862