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Art Institute of Chicago

5,127 works

Pen and brown wash drawing of a spotted horse raising a leg toward a dog, with another horse running behind in a field.

Two Horses Fighting Dog

Johann Georg Pforr, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of cavalry riders charging into battle, one sword raised, with a fallen soldier in the foreground.

Cavalry Going Into Battle

Attributed to James Stuart, 1813

Grayscale drawing of a rococo altar with a central nativity painting, flanking columns, and sculpted saints.

Study for an Altar Containing a Painting of the Adoration of the Shepherds

Carl Joseph Haringer, 1767

Grey watercolor of a stone archway framing classical columns and a distant colonnade, with seated figures and a statue above.

St. Peter’s Seen Through the Porta Angelica

Joseph Mallord William Turner, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of a haloed figure offering a chalice to kneeling apostles in an arched columned hall.

Communion of the Apostles

Johann Martin Schuster, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a bearded man playing a tambourine beside a seated nude woman holding a staff, with a column behind.

Hercules and Iole

After Annibale Carracci, after 1600

Pencil drawing of an ancient Greek harbor city with classical columns, temples, sailing ships and a crowd on the quay.

A City of Ancient Greece and the Return of a Victorious

Attributed to C. Scott, 1863

Pen and grey wash drawing of goats on a dirt road, a goatherd, a cottage, a horse and cart beneath a large tree.

Goatherd, Goats on Road near Carriage and House

Bruno van Straaten, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a goatherd in a hat with goats and cows on a path beside tall trees and a farmhouse.

Goatherd and Goats

Bruno van Straaten, n.d.

Pencil drawing of a river valley with palm trees, hills, distant buildings and wooded cliffs.

South American Landscape

W. Stubbs, n.d.

Watercolor of a standing woman in a black lace mantilla, ruffled black dress and red hair bow, holding a fan.

Young Spanish Lady in Costume of Manola

Eugène Delacroix, 1832

Ink sketch of a rider on a galloping horse with hounds running beside, titled Going to Cover, 1865.

Going to Cover

W. H. Temple, 1865

Ink and wash drawing of an ornate urn with a lion mask and two merman handles on a stone pedestal.

Monumental Vase with Anthropomorphic Figures

Attributed to or after Jacques-François-Joseph Saly, after 1746

Pen and wash drawing of three winged angels on clouds above a kneeling bearded man holding a staff.

Three Angels Appearing to Abraham

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, c. 1726

Pen and ink drawing of a rider in a hunting cap leaping a wooden fence on horseback, with other riders and hounds behind.

Fox Hunt

W. H. Temple, c. 1865

Pen drawing of a gentleman and lady riding galloping horses across a field during a fox hunt, with other riders behind.

Fox Hunt, Lady and Gentleman Riders

W. H. Temple, c. 1865

Pencil drawing of a seated Roman peasant woman with two sleeping children and ruins in a landscape behind her.

Roman Peasant Woman and Sleeping Children

Giovanni Tognolli, c. 1825

Grey wash drawing of a seated cobbler with hammer and leather, shoe lasts on shelves behind him, and a dog asleep nearby.

The Cobbler

A. Faslin[k], 19th century

Black chalk and white heightened drawing of a wolf and a lamb in a leafy landscape, on blue-grey paper.

Fable of the Wolf and the Lamb

J. F. Wieland, c. 1724

Half-Length Portrait of Woman in Profile, Facing Right

Peltro William Tomkins, n.d.

Drawing of a bearded man in a turban reaching toward a kneeling woman gathering wheat, with a standing figure behind.

Ruth and Boaz

Possibly Jacob Weyer, n.d.

Pencil drawing of a young woman's head and shoulders with curly hair and faint construction lines on cream paper.

Portrait Head of Girl

J. Aspinall, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a winged figure carrying a woman through swirling drapery and wind.

Boreas and Oreithyia

Style of Giovanni Domenico Ferretti, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of ruins on a hill beside a river, with a railed bridge and arch at right.

Ruins Overlooking River with Bridge

Attributed to or possibly after Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a crowned female saint beside a tall cross, with cherub heads and clouds in an arched frame.

Saint Helena and the True Cross

Unknown artist, 1580/90

Pen and wash drawing of rolling farm fields with hedgerows sloping toward a distant sea with sailing ships and a windmill.

View of Farm Land Near the Sea

M. Venner, c. 1770

Watercolor sketchbook spread of rolling wooded hills and a valley with fields and village buildings under a pale sky.

Sketchbook from the Artist's Trip to Germany

Eugène Delacroix, 1855-59

Pen and brown ink drawing of tall grasses, flowering plants and broad leaves growing at the edge of a pond with lily pads.

Plants at Water's Edge

the elder Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, c. 1800

Graphite drawing of a lioness seen from the front, head and shoulders, with shaded hatching behind her.

Front View of Seated Lioness

Frederik Willem Zürcher, n.d.

Charcoal drawing of a standing lion seen from behind, its shaggy mane shaded in dark strokes on a tan paper ground.

Standing Lion with Shaggy Mane

Frederik Willem Zürcher, n.d.