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Art Institute of Chicago

24,026 works

Pen and brown wash drawing of an ornate ceiling design with scrolled cartouches, putti, and seated and reclining figures.

Design for a Ceiling Decoration

Lazzaro Tavarone, 1590/1614

Travelers rest by a bay with pine trees and a sailboat, Mount Fuji rising in the distance, in a Japanese print.

Looking at the Fuji Mountain on the Route (Dochu fuji o nozomu)

Teisai Hokuba, 1805-1808

Self-Portrait

Horace Vernet, n.d.

Woodblock print of peasants planting rice in paddies and a man washing a red horse beneath trees.

Rural Scene in Early Summer: Peasants Transplanting Rice and a Man Washing a Horse

Katsukawa Shun'ei, late 1790s

Pencil drawing of a turreted stone building beside a river, with boats, figures and a steep hill behind.

Town on the Meuse

Arnauld de Vuez, n.d.

Japanese print of two court women by a river under a moon, with pine trees and a wooden veranda at right.

Illustration of The Bluebell (Asagao), Chapter 20 of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari)

Attributed to Katsushika Hokusai, 19th century

Brown wash drawing of figures fishing by a stream beneath a large tree, with a tower in the distant landscape.

Landscape with Figures by Stream

Pierre Joseph Wallaert, n.d.

Two women in patterned kimono walk under a checkered canopy beside a flowering tree in a Japanese woodblock print.

Yushima, from the series "A Comparison of Famous Things in the Eastern Capital (Toto meibutsu awase)"

Hotei Gosei, c. 1811/12

Etching of two horses in a field, one grazing and one standing, with a tree, fence and distant cart.

Grazing Horse, plate three from Series of Horses

Dirk Stoop, 1651

Etching of peasants dancing in a circle before thatched cottages, with onlookers, a barrel, a jug, and a distant church spire

Circle Dance

David Teniers the Younger, 1635/68

Engraving of nude Muses with lyres and pipes facing clothed women in a wooded mythological landscape with reclining gods.

The Dispute between the Muses and the Daughters of Pierios on Parnassus

Enea Vico, 1553

Etching of a seated woman holding an infant, with a bearded man in a dark cloak beside a stone doorway.

The Family

Jan Gillisz. van Vliet, n.d.

Engraved portrait of Jean Baptiste Massé seated beside an easel, holding a drawing, with a sculpture and writing desk nearby.

Portrait of Jean Baptiste Massé

Johann Georg Wille, 1755

Engraved portrait of an elderly man in a powdered wig and lace collar, with books and an inkwell, in a rococo frame.

Georg Christoph Erlabeck

Johann Wilhelm Windter, 1762

Sepia print of two men and a woman bargaining beside a cow outside a thatched cottage, with a sheep and tree.

Two Swiss Peasants Bargaining

Marquand Wocher, 1785

Lithograph of a young boy in worn clothes holding a shovel on his shoulder, standing on a path in an open landscape.

The Little Roadman

Paul Gavarni, c. 1835

Lithograph of a coachman in a top hat and cape holding reins on a carriage, with a dog and city buildings behind.

The Coachman

Eugène Le Roux, n.d.

Etching of leaning poplar trees over a field, with grazing cattle at left and a farmhouse in the distance.

Farm with Dutch Poplars

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Lithograph of men in a shabby bedroom, one reclining in a chair, one yawning on a bed, under a satirical caption about foundi

The Literary Life

Charles Vernier, n.d.

Engraving of the Nativity in a ruined colonnade, with Mary kneeling by the infant Christ, an ox and donkey, and angels among

The Stable in Bethlehem

Jean de Gourmont, c. 1520-40

Copper engraving plate showing a bust portrait of a young man in a fur cap with curly hair and a neckcloth.

Portrait of Carl Phillip Fohr

Samuel Amsler, 1818

Woodcut of crowned, bound Christ displayed on a platform before a crowd of soldiers and onlookers, Cranach, 1509.

Ecce Homo, from The Passion

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1509

Woodcut of Christ carrying the cross along the Road to Calvary, surrounded by armored soldiers and a crowd of onlookers.

The Road to Calvary, from the Passion

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1509

Lithograph of a poor family: a dozing man, a woman bending over him, and a child resting beside them in a dim room.

A Poor Family

Paul Gavarni, 1843

Portrait of a Man

Hieronymous Hopfer, n.d.

Sketch of a uniformed doorman above a dinner table with seated diners, wine bottles and the title Menu 1896.

Le Suisse, Menu

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1896

Pencil drawing of a woman's head tilted upward, gazing to the upper left, with soft shading and curly hair.

Head of a Woman with Face Upturned

Edward Burne-Jones, c. 1873-77

Etching of a dim forge interior with a blacksmith tending a glowing fire beside a figure working at an anvil.

The Forge

Charles Émile Jacque, 1848

Woman's Head in Profile to Left

Edward Burne-Jones, c. 1873-77

Pencil sketch of a seated nude woman with a fish-like tail, head bowed, one arm bent across her body.

Seated Female Nude

Edward Burne-Jones, c. 1873-77