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Art Institute of Chicago

23,908 works

Engraved portrait of a man in period dress beside a crowded arcaded courtyard with a clock tower and Amsterdam coat of arms.

Jan de Paep (De Beursknecht)

Cornelis Visscher, c. 1649-58

Engraved portrait of a seated cardinal in red-trimmed robes and biretta, with a coat of arms and crucifix beside him.

Portrait of Cardinal Zacharias de Mez

Jan de Visscher, c. 1661

Engraving of an old man with a violin-playing boy and onlookers in an arched doorway, with a tree and sky behind.

The Hurdy-Gurdy Player

Cornelis Visscher, 1648/58

Engraved oval portrait of a man with long hair, mustache, lace collar and chain, inscribed Jacob Westerbaen.

Jacob Westerbaen, lord of Brandwijk

Cornelis Visscher, c. 1649-58

Caricature lithograph of a plumed officer stepping over a book labeled Guerre while a man hides behind a curtain and another

“It is war! ...Everyone for himself!,” plate 460

Honoré Daumier, 1835

Framed Persian manuscript page with a painted polo game of mounted horsemen on blue ground beside calligraphic text.

A Polo Game: Page from a Kulliyyat (Collected Works) of Sa'di

Unknown artist, Safavid dynasty (1501-1722), 16th century, c. 1585

Engraving of an elderly man in a wide hat leaning toward a smiling woman at a table with a pipe and tankard.

The Chat (Het Zoute Scholletje)

Cornelis Visscher, c. 1653

Engraved oval portrait of a woman with curled hair, pearl necklace and lace gown, with a Latin inscription below.

Queen Christina of Sweden

Cornelis Visscher, 1650

Engraved oval portrait of King Philip III in a crown and ruff collar, with Latin text and a coat of arms below.

Philip III, King of Spain, from Principes Hollandiae, Zelandiae, et Frisiae

Cornelis Visscher, 1650

Lithograph of a crowded night street with women in colorful coats, a child in red, and glowing globe lamps.

Le magazin de nouveautes

Alexandre Lunois, 1902

Pastel and drawing of three women with fans in a theatre interior, one in a pink dress and one in orange, by Degas.

Singers on the Stage

Edgar Degas, 1877/79

Pastel drawing of a village corner with pale houses, a pond with ducks, figures by a doorway, and autumn trees under blue sky

A Corner of Moret-sur-Loing

Alfred Sisley, 1895

Engraved portrait of a seated older man in a white collar holding pages, with books and a sculpture on a shelf behind him.

Joost van den Vondel

Cornelis Visscher, 1657

Guiz....

Honoré Daumier, 1833

Engraved portrait of Saint John with halo, quill, book and eagle, gazing upward against a cloudy sky.

Saint John, from The Four Evangelists

Cornelis Visscher, 1650

Engraved portrait of a man in armor and plumed hat, with a city and river view behind him.

Jan van der Does, plate 3 from Quatuor Personae

Cornelis Visscher, 1649

Pen and wash drawing of mourners gesturing in the foreground and Christ carrying the cross up a hill in the distance.

The Virgin, the Holy Women, and Saints John, James and Joseph of Arimathea, with Christ on the Way to Calvary

Antonio Carracci, n.d.

Engraving of Saint Luke with a halo writing with a quill in an open book, an ox beside him.

Saint Luke, from The Four Evangelists

Cornelis Visscher, 1650

Watercolor of two people in a small sailboat on a misty river beside autumn trees and a grassy bank.

Beverly N.J.

Thomas Moran, 1880/89

Mezzotint of an iron forge interior with a bellows, glowing furnace, workers, a woman and children, dated 1773.

An Iron Forge

Richard Earlom, 1773

Etching of a melancholic seated woman holding a skull, surrounded by a globe, urn, cat, dog and scattered instruments.

Melancholia

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, before 1647

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in armor holding a baton, with ships in a harbor behind him and a helmet at his side.

Lodewijk Boisot, Admiral of Zeeland, plate 4 from Quatuor Personae

Cornelis Visscher, 1649

Pencil sketch of two seated women in hats and a faint third figure, with guide lines, on tan paper.

Madame Lisle and Madame Loubens

Edgar Degas, 1869/72

Sepia print of a dancer in a turban and robe performing for seated onlookers and a musician beside draped tents and trees.

La Danse Russe (The Russian Dance)

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, 1769

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a black robe and chain of honor, with a coat of arms and Latin inscription.

Adriaen Pauw, Lord of Heemstede

Cornelis Visscher, 1652

Lithograph portrait of a young woman with puffed sleeves, hair bow and drop earrings, with a floral letter T below.

The Letter "T" from Le Miroir des Dames, ou nouvel alphabet français

Pierre Louis Henri Grévedon, 1834

Painted initial showing the Annunciation: an angel with a lily and Mary at a lectern under a dove, in a gold and red border.

The Annunciation in a Historiated Initial "M" from an Antiphonary

Unknown artist, 15th century

Sepia etching of a stone arch bridge over a rocky gorge, framed by pine trees and a bare tree under a cloudy sky.

Little Devil's Bridge, plate 19 from Liber Studiorum

Joseph Mallord William Turner, published March 29, 1809

Sepia sketch of a domed mosque with slender minarets rising above wooden houses and a cobbled street in Constantinople.

View of Constantinople

Possibly David Roberts, 1840/45

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of a man's head in three-quarter view with curly hair and a frowning expression.

Roman Portrait Bust

Follower of Jacopo Robusti, called Tintoretto, n.d.