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Art Institute of Chicago

24,211 works

Lithograph caricature of men struggling to mount a reluctant horse, with a groom holding the bridle and a cloaked man pushing

Departure for Spain. “He will mount! he will not mount! he will mount! and no, he will not mount!!!,” plate 498

Honoré Daumier, 1835

Lithograph of a seated man with folded arms and bowed head in a wooden chair, captioned Lannes, from La Caricature.

Lannes, plate 519

Honoré Daumier, 1835

Daumier lithograph of bathers in shallow water, a woman with a parasol, a child, a dog, and clothing left on the shore.

Madame Greluche: “Oh, Gustave, how good! A real soothing warmth! Look at our son Loulou; the cute face he makes!” Mr.…

Honoré Daumier, 1839

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a patterned costume with tortoise, pine and crane motifs, wearing a tall black headdress

Ichimura Kamezo I performing the Sanbaso dance

Torii Kiyohiro, c. 1756

Woodblock print of two kabuki actors in patterned kimono beside a soba noodle stand, with Japanese calligraphy.

The Actors Ichimura Kamezo I as Sengokuya Ihei and Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as his wife Omatsu in the play "Kashiwa ga To…

Torii Kiyohiro, 1755

Mr. Stewardson the Artist

B. Oakley, n.d.

Black and white lithograph of a crowd queuing behind wooden railings, men in robes and hats, caricatured faces, with caption

Theater Plays in Beijing. The love for the theater in Beijing is reaching almost absurd dimensions, and strangely eno…

Honoré Daumier, 1845

Japanese woodblock print of two women beside a cherry tree with a butterfly, a bamboo fence, and calligraphy above.

Poem by Mibuno no Tadami, from an untitled series of Thirty-Six Immortal Poets

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1767/68

Woodblock print of two women in kimono reading a letter on a red bench as a young man enters through a curtain.

Young Man Walks in as Two Courtesans Read Love Letter

Shiba Kôkan, c. 1772/74

Japanese woodblock print of women and children at a shop with a large noren curtain, a young man holding toys.

The Echigoya on New Year's Day

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1789

Japanese woodblock print of two women in black hoods and floral kimono beside a man in a red coat, under a shimenawa rope.

The Twelfth Month (Harumachizuki), from the series "Fashionable Monthly Visits to Sacred Places in the Four Seasons (…

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1784

Woodblock print of a dancer in a pink floral kimono holding a fan beneath a hanging bell and falling cherry blossoms.

Actor Nakayama Tomisaburô as a Shirabyôshi Dancer in “The Maiden at Dôjô Temple” (“Musume Dôjô-ji”)

Katsukawa Shun'ei, About 1794

Japanese woodblock print of a seated woman in a chrysanthemum kimono with turtles, a treasure bowl and a scroll.

Jurojin, from the series "A Comparison of the Treasures of the Gods of Good Fortune (Fukujin takara awase)"

Chobunsai Eishi, c. 1795

Pencil sketch of a seated woman in a ruffled collar and long gown in an armchair, on a sketchbook page with handwritten notes

Sketchbook

Jacques-Louis David, 1809-10

Lithograph of a roadside with a rustic branch fence, broad-leaved plants, grass clumps and a dirt path.

Landscape with Flora and Rustic Fence near Roadside

Lorenz Ekemann Alesson, n.d.

Lithographic portrait of a man with curly hair in a dark coat and white cravat, signed J. Isabey 1823.

M. Villeau

Jean-Baptiste Isabey, 1823

Lithograph of a seated boy polishing a boot beside a wooden box, shoes and a top hat at his feet, cypress trees behind a ston

The Little Shoe-Shine Boy

Comte de Charles Philibert Lasteyrie du Saillant, n.d.

Utamaro woodblock print of a standing courtesan in a patterned kimono, a seated woman writing, and a child with a white cat.

Takigawa of the Ogiya (Ogiya uchi Takigawa, Onami, Menami, Kisagawa, Hanamichi, Himekawa, Kumegawa)

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1793

Japanese woodblock print of two women in kimono seated beside a hanging wind chime and green blind, with a decorated fan abov

Ukiyo Genji hakkei : Suzumushi no bansho

Chobunsai Eishi, n.d.

Ukiyo-e print of three courtesans in patterned kimono and ornate hairpins walking together, by Chokosai Eisho.

The Courtesans Hanaogi, Segawa, and Miyahito of the Ogiya

Chokosai Eisho, c. 1796/97

Japanese woodblock print of a woman with long black hair holding a pink blossom branch, with a calligraphic cartouche above.

A Selection of Six Flowers - A Parody Rokkasen (Yatsushi Rokkasen): Ono no Komachi

Chobunsai Eishi, c. 1798

Woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono applying rouge with a brush beside a black lacquer mirror.

Beauty applying rouge, from the series "Comaprison of Beauties in Eastern Brocade (Azuma nishiki bijin awase)"

Torii Kiyomine, c. 1804/10

Woodblock print of three women in kimono in a room with folding screens, looking out to a garden and trees.

Ladies behind screen in a daimyo's mansion

Utagawa Toyokuni, n.d.

Lithograph of a cuirassier in plumed helmet restraining a rearing horse, with mounted soldiers in the distance.

Cuirassier on Foot Restraining His Rearing Horse

Carle Vernet, 1817-36

Japanese woodblock print of a seated woman in a pink kimono with white plum blossoms and a green patterned border.

New Clothes for the Festival of New Herbs (Wakana no hatsuisho): Tamagiku of the Kadotamaya with Attendants Kikuno an…

Chobunsai Eishi, n.d.

Woodblock print of a seated courtesan in a pink patterned kimono with gold hair ornaments, beside a tea kettle and iris.

The Courtesan Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya, from the series "Courtesans of the Five Festivals (Yukun gosekku)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1805

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in black kimono holding a fishing rod, with a figure peering from a pine tree behind him.

The Actor Sawamura Sojuro I as Ebisu in the play "Suehiro Eho Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first m…

Torii Kiyomasu II, 1729

Brown and red print of a smiling young man in a wide hat leaning on a stone window ledge in an arched niche.

Ein Jungling (Titus)

Jacob Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, n.d.

Woodblock print of travelers and a loaded horse on a hill road beside pine trees, a hut, and blue mountains.

No. 17: Matsuida, from the series "Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)"

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1835/38

Woodblock print of travelers with umbrellas on a ferry boat crossing rain-swept blue waves toward a shore of thatched houses.

Rokugo, from the series "A Record of a Journey to Enoshima (Enoshima kiko)"

Totoya Hokkei, 1833