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Art Institute of Chicago

3,362 works

Woodblock print of a seated woman playing a koto, wearing a patterned kimono and ornate hair pins, with calligraphy at upper

The Courtesan Somenosuke of the Matsubaya, and Attendants Wakagi and Wakaba, from the series "A Comparison of Contemp…

Chokosai Eisho, c. 1796/97

The Corner of the Sofa, No. 3

Mary Cassatt, c. 1880

At the Dressing Table

Mary Cassatt, c. 1880

Woodblock print of a Japanese reception room with seated figures, paper lanterns, a folding screen, and a dancer in the cente

Views of Reception Rooms in Japan - Entertainments on the Day of the Rat in the Modern Style (Uki-e wakoku keiseki oz…

Utagawa Toyoharu, c. 1771/76

Woodblock print of a woman in a black kimono admiring a flowering branch in a fish-decorated vase on a low table.

Viewing Ikebana

Utagawa Toyohiro, c.1802

Woodblock print of a figure in striped robe holding a sword beside a lattice wall and tiled-roof house.

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as a Woman of a Samurai Family

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1786

Japanese woodblock print of women and children watching fireworks over a river with boats and dark shoreline trees.

Women and Children Viewing the Fireworks

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1798

Three women in kimono beneath a blossoming plum tree with a lantern, beside a bamboo fence and garden gate.

Three women beneath a plum tree at night

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1796

Chalk drawing on tan paper of a draped woman with bowed head leaning on a pedestal, with white highlights on her cloak.

Study of a Draped Woman Leaning on a Pedestal

François Boucher, 1759/61

Pen and brown ink drawing of mourners gathered around a dead body in a rocky landscape, with small figures in the background.

The Lamentation of Christ (recto and verso)

Polidoro da Caravaggio, 1527/35

Brown wash drawing of white-hatted Punchinello figures around a collapsed man, with a donkey and rocky cliff at left.

Punchinello Collapses on the Road, from the series Divertimento per li regazzi (Entertainment for Children)

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, c. 1791

Ink architectural elevation of a Roman Doric order with fluted columns, entablature, and detail moldings on the right.

Orders of Architecture, Roman Doric Order from Baths of Diocletian, Rome, Italy, Elevation

Carl J. Furst, April 1, 1870

Ink architectural drawing of a Greek Ionic column, capital and entablature with dimension lines, titled Minerva Polias in Ath

Orders of Architecture, Greek Ionic Order from the Temple of Minerva Polias, Athens, Greece, Elevation

Carl J. Furst, May 23, 1870

Architectural elevation drawing of a Renaissance Doric column and entablature with dimension notes, by Carl J. Furst, 1870.

Orders of Architecture, Renaissance Doric Order from Vincenzo Scamozzi, Elevation

Carl J. Furst, June 5, 1870

Japanese woodblock print of three women by a blossoming tree, two kneeling at a table with paper and brush, one standing.

No. 1 (ichi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1798/1800

Three women in striped kimono gather mulberry leaves from a tree, one carrying a woven basket, beside a ladder and stool.

No. 2 (ni), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1798/1800

Three women tend silkworms on trays of mulberry leaves in a workshop, one kneeling to chop leaves in a wooden basin.

No. 3 (san), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1798/1800

Three women in kimono work with silkworm cocoon trays in a wooden workshop, with a woven basket at right.

No. 4 (shi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1798/1800

Four women in kimono sort mulberry leaves on a mat in a room with blinds, from Utamaro's sericulture woodblock print.

No. 5 (go), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1798/1800

Grey wash drawing of three kneeling women in lace veils beside classical columns and a bust, by John Brown.

Three Kneeling Women

John Brown, 1770/75

Three women in kimono handle wooden trays of silkworm cocoons beside calligraphic text in a Japanese woodblock print.

No. 6 (roku), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1798/1800

Woodblock print of three women in a tatami room tending silkworms on paper, with a pine branch and calligraphy above.

No. 7 (nana), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1798/1800

Japanese woodblock print of women and children on a veranda with moths, a lattice window, and a pine branch.

No. 8 (hachi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1798/1800

Three women reel silk from cocoons over a brazier beside a wooden frame, with hanging skeins and text cartouches above.

Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry, No. 9 (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa, ku)

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1798-1800

Ukiyo-e print of women in kimono handling silk cloth at a wooden tub and bamboo pole, by Kitagawa Utamaro.

No. 10 (ju), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1798/1800

Woodblock print of two women in kimono working at a silk-reeling frame, with calligraphy in the upper margin.

No. 11 (juichi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1798/1800

Hand-colored print of stylized ferns, leaves and dark berry clusters in pink, grey, green and ochre on a pale sheet.

Plate, from New Suite of Notebooks of Ideal Flowers for Use by Draftsmen and Painters

Anne Allen, c. 1795

Title page with a colorful oval garland of flowers and leaves framing handwritten French text, marked No. 4.

Title Page, from New Suite of Notebooks of Ideal Flowers for Use by Draftsmen and Painters

Anne Allen, c. 1795

Japanese woodblock print of three women operating a wooden loom, one kneeling in a floral kimono at right.

No. 12 (juni), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1798/1800

Woodblock print of Mount Fuji above a thatched village and still lake, with a small boat at lower right.

The Surface of the Water at Misaka in Koshu Province (Koshu Misaka suimen), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Moun…

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1830/33