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Art Institute of Chicago

24,211 works

Brown wash drawing of an allegorical scene with a portrait medallion of a man in armor, angels, and a painter at an easel.

Title Page with Portrait of Viceroy of Naples

After Francesco Solimena, n.d.

Pen and blue wash drawing of a chaotic battle with armored soldiers, rearing horses, and a walled city behind.

Battle before Troy

After Luca Penni, 16th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of the Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine with cherubs above and a hilly landscape behind.

Marriage of Saint Catherine

Domenico dalla Rosa, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a Gothic abbey church with a square tower, cottages, cows and two men in an open field.

Old Abbey Church

Follower of Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 18th century

Pen and grey wash drawing of a gabled Tudor-style cottage with tall chimneys and two large trees in front.

Tudor Cottage

Circle of Humphrey Repton, n.d.

Ink and wash drawing of a farmhouse, grazing cattle, and two hunters with dogs on a road beneath tall trees.

Hunters and Herd of Cattle Outside Country Estate

Follower of Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 18th century

Grey wash drawing of Bromly Hall, a long two-storey country house flanked by tall pines and a wooden fence.

Bromly Hall

Ralph Bullock, n.d.

Pen drawing of a night eruption, with smoke rising from a volcano over calm water and a moon above, figures on the shore.

Eruption of Vesuvius

Robert Bradstreet, 1800/49

Pen and brown ink drawing of a barefoot woman carrying a basket on her head past cottages in Galway, 1855.

Girl of Claddagh or Fishing Suburb, Galway

A. Bradstreet, 1855

Pencil and white-highlight drawing of sailing cutters and figures moored in a calm harbor beside a ruined tower.

Harbor with Cutters

Eugène Bléry, 1841

Black and white chalk drawing of a fisherman in a hat and cloak seated on a lobster pot, leaning on a walking stick.

Fisherman Seated on Lobster Pot

Eugène Bléry, 19th century

Pen and brown wash drawing of a standing woman in a ruffled cap and cloak, holding a walking stick, beside a shrub.

Pierrette

After Thomas Barker, n.d.

Pencil drawing of the Holy Family with infant Saint John and angels, seated before a stone pedestal and column.

Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Angels

After Lubin Baugin, n.d.

Pencil and wash drawing of children in headscarves gathering in a Gothic church lit by a diagonal shaft of light.

First Communion

Johannes Bosboom, 1845

Pen and ink drawing with red wash of a funereal cartouche with skeletons, a skull, and sketches of skeletal figures.

Funereal Cartouche with Inscription and Sketches of Skeletons and Ornamental Details

Baccio del Bianco, 1628

Charcoal drawing of thatched huts, moored sailing boats, and rock formations with an arch on a coastal shore.

Huts Etretat

Barbin, 1876

Brown ink drawing of Madonna and Child flanked by a crowned emperor and an armored saint with a lion, within a circle.

Madonna and Child with Holy Roman Emperor and Saint Adrian

H. Ballais, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a symmetrical architectural façade with arched bays, pediments, figural reliefs and garland swags.

Design for a Façade Decoration

Circle of Girolamo Genga, c. 1548

Bardolphe

After John Hamilton Mortimer, n.d.

Sepia drawing of the risen Christ holding a banner above startled and sleeping soldiers beside a tomb.

Resurrection of Christ

Giacinto Boccanera, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing of a standing male nude holding an open book, with draped cloth and a rocky base sketched beneath him.

Standing Male Nude (Saint Jerome?) with Book

Luca Cambiaso, 1550/59

Red chalk portrait of a curly-haired young man in an oval frame, with a Latin inscription on drapery below.

Study for Portrait of Giorgione

Filippo Germisoni, c. 1724

Pencil sketch of a formal garden with a stone staircase, balustraded terrace, urns, tall trees and a distant obelisk.

Staircase and Terrace in Formal Garden

Domenico Quaglio the Younger, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a columned portico with receding arches, small figures in the distance, and a paved foreground.

Portico

Domenico Quaglio the Younger, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a porch with three pointed Gothic arches, slender columns, and trees framing the scene.

Porch with Gothic Arches

Domenico Quaglio the Younger, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a woman with a dark umbrella walking a wet tree-lined path in rain.

Summer Shower

Alfred Sacheverel Coke, 1875/99

Black chalk and white heightened drawing of a seated bearded man in heavy drapery, one arm raised, on a toned paper ground.

Seated Bearded Figure (Prophet?)

Attributed to Ferraù Fenzoni, c. 1591

Red chalk drawing of a shepherd offering his hand to a seated shepherdess with a small dog beneath a tree.

Shepherd, Shepherdess and Little Dog in Wooded Setting

N. Delage, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of thatched cottages and a large tree on a hillside, with two seated figures in the foreground.

Cottages and Trees on Hillside

Thomas Monro, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of an ornamental circular basin design with a winged figure, scrollwork and floral garlands.

Design for a Platter or Basin

Unknown artist, n.d.