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Art Institute of Chicago

13,165 works

Hand-colored print of a couple kissing by a stone wall in a rustic courtyard, with a dog and rooster nearby.

L'Escalade ou Les Adieux du Matin (The Climb or The Farwell in the Morning)

Philibert-Louis Debucourt, 1787

Engraving of an owl with spread wings on a fallen log above wolves and a hare in a forest, with a motto below.

Fable III, plate three from Lehrreiche Fabeln aus dem Reiche der Theire

Johann Elias Ridinger, 1743

Engraving of a lion on a rock surrounded by wolves, a tiger and other animals, with an ostrich in the foreground.

Fable V, plate five from Lehrreiche Fabeln aus dem Reiche der Theire

Johann Elias Ridinger, 1743

Etching of a classical arch framed by trees and rubble, with an inscription tablet and two small standing figures at left.

Frontispiece, plate one from Vasi Invention

Jean-Laurent Legeay, 1768, published 1770

Etching of a huge tree in a landscape with draped figures, a harp, children near a pond, and a distant town.

The Wondrous Fountain

Johann Baptist Stuntz, 1810

Etching of a tall fir tree beside a waterfall, with a hunter and dog on rocks and wooded cliffs behind.

Fir Tree

Jacob Philipp Hackert, 1801/02

Engraved print of a bouquet with hyacinth blossoms and two passion flowers, labeled Jacinthe et Grenadille.

Hyacinthe and Passion Fruit Flower, plate two from Mes Petits Bouquets

Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin, n.d.

Etching of a skeletal figure raising a cross above a crowd of anguished faces, with smoke and a distant cross behind.

Third Future, plate six from Eve and the Future

Max Klinger, 1880

Etching of a man's face rising from stormy sea under a churning cloudy sky, mouth open in alarm.

Downfall, plate twelve from A Life

Max Klinger, 1884

Etching in brown tones of a flying female figure reaching toward a globe under a crescent moon, with ornate border and exhibi

Card for the Gurlitt Exhibition: Imagination and the Child Artist

Max Klinger, 1881

Etching of a woman with long hair seated on a bed, looking toward a window with a distant landscape in a dim room.

Awakening, plate eight from A Love

Max Klinger, 1887, signed and dated in 1903

Etching of a woman in a shadowy dream, with ghostly faces and a reaching hand emerging behind her.

Dreams, plate three from A Life

Max Klinger, 1884

Etching of a nude man reaching toward a pale spectral figure, with a reclining body and rocky landscape below.

Philosopher, plate three from One Death, Part II

Max Klinger, c. 1889

Engraving of a bearded man with a dagger grasping a reclining nude woman on a bed under draped curtains, with a servant watch

Tarquin and Lucretia

Monogrammist M. G., c. 1571

Pencil study of tree trunks and branches with a faint horizon, by Georges Seurat, 1884.

Trees (study for La Grande Jatte)

Georges Seurat, 1884

Woodblock print of a courtesan and young attendant beneath cherry blossoms, with lanterns and a blue railing behind them.

Naninani-hana of the House of Eikichi

Utagawa Yoshiiku, c. 1890

Woodblock print of a courtesan in a patterned kimono with hairpins, beside an attendant, under cherry blossoms and lanterns.

Kodaiyû of the House of Matsumoto

Utagawa Yoshiiku, c. 1890

Woodblock print of women in kimono making paper beside a veranda over water, with irises and pine branches.

Great Prosperity at the Silk Farm (Kaikoya Daihanjono Zu)

Utagawa Kunisato, c. 1837

Woodblock print of a figure in a blue patterned kimono on a bridge overlooking a river, boats, village and trees at dusk.

Distant View of Matsuchi Hill from the Sumida River (Sumidagawa yori Matsuchiyama enkei), from the series "One Hundre…

Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1884

Lithograph of a man carrying a magic lantern on his back, walking a rough landscape under a stormy sky with factories behind.

The Magic Lantern

Paul Gavarni, 1854

Woodblock print showing one man in six exaggerated facial expressions in circular frames on a dark green background.

One Person, Six Expressions (Hitori rokumenso)

Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1884

Woodblock print of a woman in a lavender kimono holding a red fan beside her face, with fireflies in a dark night sky.

Delighted (Ureshiso), from the series "Thirty-two Aspects of Women (Fuzoku sanjuniso)"

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1888

Woodblock print of a woman with gold hairpins holding a blue fan while a hand sews at her sleeve, by Yoshitoshi.

Painful (Itaso), from the series "Thirty-two Aspects of Women (Fuzoku sanjuniso)"

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1888

Engraved title page with 'LA CINQUANTAINE', winged figures with a torch over rustic figures and cherubs by a pedestal.

The Fifty

Jean-Michel Moreau, 1771

Etching of a seated musician playing a pipe in a rocky forest clearing, with a hooded hermit on a railing and a cave behind.

A Musician with a Hermit

Moritz von Schwind, c. 1846

Etching of an elderly man in a top hat leaning on a walking stick, with a deeply wrinkled face.

Old Man with a Walking Stick

Wilhelm Leibl, 1875/77

Etching of a London street under an awning with shops, a lamppost, and pedestrians in the foreground.

Drury Lane

James McNeill Whistler, 1880/81

Graphite drawing of an older priest's head turned upward, with a clerical collar and clasped hands below.

Head of a Priest

After Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, after 1760

Etching of a Venetian canal bridge with arched stone span, wooden pilings, reflections, and old buildings behind it.

Ponte del Piovan

James McNeill Whistler, 1879/80

Red and green stylized flowers and stems in a red-bordered decorated initial from a manuscript page.

Decorated Initial with Flowers from a Manuscript

Unknown artist, n.d.