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Art Institute of Chicago

24,211 works

Daumier lithograph of a man with a bundle arguing with a top-hatted gentleman beside a carriage, a woman between them.

“- Citizen, you owe me another five sous for your luggage, and I am even generous because if I wanted to I could coun…

Honoré Daumier, 1857

Red chalk drawing of a bearded robed man standing and pointing upward with one raised arm.

Christ Teaching

Circle of Ludovico Cardi, called Il Cigoli, n.d.

Black and red chalk drawing of a standing robed figure with draped garments on aged paper.

Standing Angel (recto); Study of Face and Drapery (verso)

Probably Domenico Fiasella, n.d.

Daumier lithograph: a man in bed reads a protested document while an older man with a lantern stands beside him.

“A protest on New Year's Day! What luck! ...........,” plate 42 from Croquis Parisiens

Honoré Daumier, 1857

Seated Woman in Profile to Right

Possibly Domenico Fiasella, n.d.

Daumier lithograph of two cold hunters with rifles crossing a bleak winter plain, one shivering, from Croquis de Chasse.

“- Brrrr! I am furious that I came here to hunt in the St. Denis-Plain. It's just too cold!… - One of those days when…

Honoré Daumier, 1858

Pen and brown ink sketch of winged harpies attacking men, with figures reaching and recoiling across a loose, scribbled compo

Harpies Attacking Aeneas and His Companions

called Micco Spadaro Domenico Gargiulo, n.d.

Daumier lithograph of a seated passenger in a plaid cap waiting on a shore, looking toward a large ship on the water.

A passenger having paid his ticket to NEW YORK on the LEVIATHAN, waiting for the ship finally being put into the wate…

Honoré Daumier, 1858

Red chalk drawing of a seated woman in a loose dress reading an open book on her lap.

Seated Woman with Book

Probably Domenico Fiasella, n.d.

Daumier lithograph of a harried father in a top hat laden with toys, pulled by two children on a crowded street.

“- May the devil get the inventor of all these New Year's presents!” Reflection of a sensitive, generous but tormente…

Honoré Daumier, 1858

Lithograph of two elderly women in bonnets, one reading a paper while the other clasps her hands, with French caption below.

“- Oh, Madame Chaboulard, I wonder what will happen in the twelve months to come... the New Year starts on a Friday!…

Honoré Daumier, 1858

Lithograph of a concierge with a broom pointing a climbing visitor back down a curved staircase.

“- Would you please come back immediately... I do not allow my tenants to receive visitors once I have cleaned the st…

Honoré Daumier, 1858

Lithograph of a woman in a butcher shop holding out a piece of meat to another woman with a basket on her arm.

“- Madeleine, how could you ever accept a piece of meat like this one? - Madame, the butcher told me that the meat co…

Honoré Daumier, 1857

Lithograph of a butcher with a cleaver arguing with a woman with a basket beside hanging carcasses.

“- And your bourgeois - is he for freedom of the butcher's trade?,” plate 464 from Actualités

Honoré Daumier, 1857

Daumier lithograph: a stern butcher with folded arms beside a small child in a hat, with hanging meat in the background.

“- I would have so much loved to make him a butcher too... now I am forced to make him a lawyer,” plate 467 from Actu…

Honoré Daumier, 1857

Daumier lithograph of a butcher weighing bones on a scale while a stooped customer with a basket looks on.

“- Well, if you want to liberate the butchers' commerce, why are you against my weighing a few bones with the meat?……

Honoré Daumier, 1857

Pen and brown ink drawing of a seated woman in a veil holding a sleeping infant against her shoulder.

Madonna and Child

Style of Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael, 1842

Lithograph of a butcher with a cleaver facing an elderly woman with a basket, meat hanging behind them, 1858.

“- Mister butcher, I wish you a happy and healthy New Year… - What? This is going to be a nice one, this 1858… every…

Honoré Daumier, 1858

Pencil design for an oval cartouche with draped fabric, a bearded helmeted head at top, and the label Fairy Body.

Design for a Cartouche

Style of John Thurston, c. 1820

Faint graphite sketch of a figure with chair and drapery on blue-grey paper, with a small collector's stamp at lower right.

Portrait of a Man

Possibly William Hoare, n.d.

Perseus and the Gorgon's Head

Style of Jacques Louis David, c. 1770

Pen and brown ink landscape drawing of a large rock outcrop beside trees, with a river and distant hills at right.

Rocks, Trees, and River

Attributed to Franz Kobell, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of armored warriors and columns, a central figure offering a wreath to a kneeling soldier.

Mars (or Alexander?) Distributing the Victor's Wreaths

Andrea Semino, 1560/65

Drawing of an angel pointing forward beside a kneeling young man on a large fish, rendered in grey wash on blue paper.

Tobias and the Angel

Style of Laurent de La Hyre, n.d.

Pen and brown ink sketch of a reclining putto with outstretched legs resting on clouds, on a torn sheet mounted on white boar

Putto

School of Ferdinand Bol, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of Roman Forum ruins with a tall fluted column, colonnaded temple, fountain and small figures.

View from within the Roman Forum

Circle of Willem van Nieulandt II, 1600

Engraving of two richly robed figures in a landscape with a walled town and a radiant Madonna and Child above.

Augustus and the Sibyl

Master E. S., c. 1450

Brown wash drawing of a haloed seated woman in a prison, with a bearded man holding a dish and a winged angel.

Saint Peter Visiting Saint Agatha in Prison and Healing her Wounds

Anton Raphael Mengs, n.d.

Grey ink and wash landscape of an arched stone fountain beside ruined walls, trees, a river, and distant hills.

Landscape with Fountain

II Abraham Genoels, n.d.

Engraving of nude Apollo drawing a bow beside seated nude Diana with antlers and a quiver on a rocky ground.

Apollo and Diana

Albrecht Dürer, 1503/04