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Art Institute of Chicago

24,211 works

Pencil drawing of a two-story house with chimneys among trees, with a low rail fence and shrubs in the foreground.

House with Garden

William John Gray of Salisbury, n.d

Caricature of Man Writing

Carlo Marchionni, n.d.

Ink and wash drawing of Tobias and an angel walking through a landscape, framed by an ornate rococo border with fruit.

Vignette of Tobias and the Angel

Style of Henry Fuseli, n.d.

Pen and brown ink drawing of Roman ruins with columns, arches, palm trees and small draped figures under a cloudy sky.

Ruins of Roman Forum, with Figures

called Battista Vicentino Giovanni Battista Pittoni the Elder, c. 1550

Brown wash drawing of a tropical shoreline with palm trees, sailing ships, arched buildings and figures at the water's edge.

South Sea Island

Lorens Gottman, n.d.

Pencil sketch of two winged putti embracing, with drapery swirling above them on pale paper.

Spandrel Decoration with Two Putti

After Carlo Maratti, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of rustic figures resting and drinking beside barrels and a ladder outside a building.

Rustic Scene: Men, Women and Children Resting and Drinking Outside Building

Giorgio Giacoboni, n.d.

Sepia drawing of a town square with a church and bell tower, a column in the foreground, and figures on a hill.

View of Piazza in Fiesole

Giuseppe Gherardi, n.d.

Red and graphite drawing of a seated scholar in a cap and gown gesturing with his hands, with Latin text below.

Duns Scotus

Attributed to Federico Zuccaro, c. 1560

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of a nude statue on a pedestal among trees on a lawn.

Statue on Lawn in Epsom

George Henry Harlow, 1809

Grey wash drawing of a kneeling saint embracing a crucifix, with a skull at her feet in a curtained interior.

Beata Humbelina with Crucifix

Possibly Johann Christoph Lischka, c. 1700

Three oval grey wash sketches on tan paper: a river bridge, a harbor with sailboats and cliffs, and a shore with figures.

Two Views of Ports, one View of River with Bridge

Alexandre Thiollet, n.d.

Woodblock print of a bald man in a patterned red kimono holding up and reading a large sheet of paper.

The theater manager Shinozuka Uraemon reading the program for the Miayako Theater

Tōshūsai Sharaku, 1794

Pen drawing of a village with a curved wooden bridge over a river, a church spire, and a castle on a distant hill.

Landscape with a Curved Wooden Bridge

Augustin Hirschvogel, 1546

Engraving of a haloed saint with curly hair holding an open book and a large key, wearing a studded robe.

St. Peter

Master E. S., n.d.

Engraving of a haloed Christ standing among six winged angels in a landscape with trees, rabbits, deer, and birds.

Christ in the Desert with Six Angels

Master of the Catherine Wheel, c. 1490

Engraving of Christ in a flowing robe facing a winged horned dragon-like tempter among rocks, with a city in the background.

The Temptation of Christ

Master LCz, c. 1490

Engraving of St. Luke painting the Madonna and Child in a Gothic interior, with an angel above and a window view.

St. Luke Portraying the Madonna

Israhel van Meckenem, 1490-1500

Engraving of the Adoration of the Magi with Mary and Christ, kneeling kings, a star above, and a retinue at right.

The Adoration of the Magi, from The Life of Christ

Martin Schongauer, 1470/75

Engraving of an ornate crosier with the Virgin and Child in a circular frame and saints in Gothic niches below.

Bishop's Crosier

Martin Schongauer, 1475/80

Lithograph of men with umbrellas fighting rats swarming over a dead horse on bare ground.

Great revolt of the rats of Montfaucon which don't want their feed to be taken away by scientists, plate 12 from Les…

Honoré Daumier, 1856

Small etched portrait of a young man with wavy shoulder-length hair against a crosshatched dark background.

Head of a Young Man

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1507

Daumier lithograph of a man with an umbrella and a woman whose skirts blow in wind and rain, a hat flying above.

“- Don't worry, Eleonore... it's nothing, it's just a little wind announcing the arrival of spring,” plate 34 from Cr…

Honoré Daumier, 1857

Colour lithograph of a woman with short dark hair in a blue wrap with white fur trim, against a red background.

Elsa, called The Viennese

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1897

Woodblock print of a warrior monk raising a staff above a bamboo fence beside a pine tree, with a prone figure below.

Yoshitsune and Benkei at Ataka barrier

Ran-u, 1765

Japanese woodblock print of a standing woman with an oval dragon mirror and a seated musician playing a flute beneath a canop

Oiso no Tora and Shosho Playing Instruments

Nishimura Shigenaga, 1746

Woodblock print of women on a veranda above the sea, with bathers below, billowing streamers, birds and a poem card.

Poem by Fujiwara no Yoshitaka, from the series "One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)"

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1835/36

Woodblock print of workers on a riverbank with timber, a plank bridge over rapids, and a poem cartouche at right.

Harumichi no Tsuraki, thirty-second poet in the series One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets Explained by the Nurse

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1835/36

Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a green kimono carrying a red tub beside a snowy wooden gate.

The Actor Arashi Sangoro II as Ito Kuro Disguised as Banta in the Play Izu-goyomi Shibai no Ganjitsu, Performed at th…

Katsukawa Shunshō, c. 1772

Woodblock print of a woman with an orange parasol beside a willow and stream, with a frog in the water below.

Mitate (Parody) of Ono no Tofu in the Play Geiko Zashiki Kyogen

Katsukawa Shunshō, c. 1776