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Art Institute of Chicago

24,023 works

Etching of a Venetian street seen through a dark archway, with seated figures on steps and a shop front beside it.

The Fish Shop, Venice

James McNeill Whistler, 1879/80

Engraved portrait of a man with long hair and mustache in a white collar, inside an octagonal frame with lettering.

F. Devillemontée

Jean Morin, n.d.

Engraving of two nude male figures seen from behind, one lifting the other, with a bridge and soldiers in the background.

The Rape of a Sabine Woman, View from Behind

Jan Harmensz. Muller, c. 1598

Mezzotint of a game market with swans, pheasants, hares and a boy in a lace collar beside a spaniel.

The Game Market

Richard Earlom, 1783

Engraving of a classical altar with a statue of a nude youth in an arched niche between Corinthian columns, on a patterned fl

The Altar of Love

Agostino Veneziano, 1510/36

Mezzotint of a fish market with piled fish, lobsters, a seal, turtles, and two men working beside a harbor tower.

A Fish Market

Richard Earlom, published June 1, 1782

Engraved interior scene of three seated men and a standing woman discussing a marriage, with a verse caption below.

Marriage Consultation

Edward Fisher, n.d.

Engraving of two children with a goat and garlanded deer beneath a tree, cherubs and birds above, a village in the distance.

Spring, from The Four Seasons

Jan Saenredam, 1601

Engraving of a wheat-crowned woman with a horse, cow and rooster in a harvest landscape with cherubs above.

Summer, from The Four Seasons

Jan Saenredam, 1601

Engraving of the Holy Family resting beneath a large tree, with Saint Joseph, a donkey, and a Latin inscription below.

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Bernardino Passeri, 1583

Engraving of a man picking grapes and a woman carrying a fruit basket beside a donkey, with produce in the foreground.

Autumn, from The Four Seasons

Jan Saenredam, 1601

Etching of a night street with a woman and man at a lit doorway, and a large star carried by a crowd behind them.

The Star of the Magi

Jan van de Velde II, c. 1616

Etching of a seated woman with a book and two putti beside a celestial globe, in classical drapery.

Astronomy

Eloy Bonnejonne, n.d.

Engraving of a painter at an easel with a nude woman, a cherub, a cat, scientific instruments, and ships at sea.

The Painter

Jan Saenredam, 1616

Etching of the Virgin Mary embracing the infant Christ, with a man with a staff walking in a landscape through an arched wind

Madonna and Child with Saint Joseph

Attributed to Ventura Salimbeni, before 1613

Dark lithograph of a looming winged devil figure sheltering the seven deadly sins beneath its wings, with a caption below.

It is the Devil, Bearing Beneath his Two Wings the Seven Deadly Sins, plate 2 from The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1…

Odilon Redon, 1888

Lithograph of a pale woman in drapery beside a shadowy figure raising an urn toward a bright light.

He Raises the Bronze Urn, plate 4 of 10

Odilon Redon, 1888

Wartime poster of a mother holding an infant, looking toward shadowy helmeted soldiers, with text urging purchase of Liberty

Hun or Home?

Henry Patrick Raleigh, 1918

Lithograph of a rose-crowned skull above a pale female torso on a black background, by Odilon Redon, 1888.

It is a Skull Wreathed in Roses...

Odilon Redon, 1888

Naive watercolor landscape with a red-roofed inn, a wooden footbridge over a stream, large trees, and birds in a pale sky.

Landscape with an Inn and a Bridge

Orra Louise White, n.d.

Black lithograph by Odilon Redon showing a pale coiled creature and small grotesque forms emerging from dark, textured shadow

And All Manner of Frightful Creatures Arise, plate 8 of 10

Odilon Redon, 1888

Black and white lithograph of a bearded face at the center of a radiating sun disk, by Odilon Redon, 1888.

And in the Very Disk of the Sun Lights the Face of Jesus Christ, plate 10 from The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1st s…

Odilon Redon, 1888

Pen and ink landscape with a large tree in the foreground, a river, a castle tower on the far bank, and hills beyond.

River Landscape with Large Tree in Foreground

Augustin Hirschvogel, 1546

Lithograph of a shadowed female figure with flowing hair and roses, swirling dark background, by Odilon Redon, 1889.

Death: "My irony surpasses all others!", plate 3 of 6

Odilon Redon, 1889

Pen and watercolor drawing of cliffs above a calm bay with boats drawn up on a sandy shore.

Coast of Sorrento

William Stanley Haseltine, 1858

Etched panoramic landscape of flat fields, tree lines, farmhouses and a distant town under an open sky.

Panorama Near Bloemendaal Showing the Saxenburg Estate (The Goldweigher's Field)

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1651

The Sphinx: "...my gaze that nothing can deflect, passing through objects, remains fixed on an inaccessible horizon."…

Odilon Redon, 1889

Lithograph of an upside-down figure with head at bottom and legs rising into dark shadow, by Odilon Redon, 1889.

The Skiapods: "The head as low as possible, that is the secret of happiness!", plate 6 of 6

Odilon Redon, 1889

Lithograph of a stable where two figures tend a horse's hoof beside several horses under a wooden roof.

Farrier's Shop

Théodore Géricault, 1823

Lithograph of two draft horses pulling a loaded cart past a street cleaner with a shovel on a cobbled street.

Street Cleaners

Théodore Géricault, 1823