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Art Institute of Chicago

23,908 works

Pencil and chalk drawing of a thatched farmyard with a haystack, barns, trees, and a group of pigs on the ground.

Farmyard with Haystack and Pigs

Style of William Turner, n.d.

Brown ink drawing of a draped woman turning left beside a male nude holding a curved trumpet.

Woman Turning Left; Male Nude Blowing Trumpet

After Polidoro Caldara, called Polidoro da Caravaggio, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a robed saint holding a cross and preaching to a crowd of seated and kneeling figures beneath a tree.

Saint Preaching to Heathens

Style of Charles-Joseph Natoire, n.d.

Stippled portrait of a woman with curled hair and a sheer veil, turned three-quarters toward the viewer on tan paper.

Mme. Horace Vernet

Jean-Baptiste Isabey, 1818

Pen and wash drawing of fleeing figures and fallen children below two archers in clouds, with a classical city behind.

Death of Niobe's Children

Possibly after Marten de Vos, 1552/1725

Pen and red chalk sketch of a robed central figure with raised arms, two floating bearded figures, and prostrate men below.

Transfiguration

After Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael, c. 1530

Brown wash drawing of an allegorical title page design with a seated writer, a helmeted figure with spear, a winged putto and

Design for Title page: Clio Taking Dictation from Minerva

Gérard de Lairesse, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of Roman soldiers throwing stones at a serpent while an armored commander looks on under trees.

Roman Soldiers Stoning a Serpent

Abraham Bloemaert, n.d.

Pen and brown wash drawing of a reclining nude woman on clouds with a winged male figure beside her under dark storm clouds.

Jupiter and Semele

Attributed to Jan Harmensz Muller, c. 1590

Portrait: Lucien Pissarro

Camille Pissarro, 1874

Sepia drawing of a Roman-style landscape with a ruined tower, cypress trees, and clouds.

Roman Landscape

Possibly the school of Claude Lorrain, 1630

Sketches of Male Profiles, Couple Embracing

Attributed to Thomas Stothard, n.d.

Pencil landscape drawing of a tall tree with a man and cows in a field and distant hills.

Landscape with Tree, Man, and Cows

Attributed to Sir George Howland Beaumont, August 7, 1765

Pencil sketch in an oval of three nude figures, one winged, with a handwritten note below the drawing.

Three Nude Figures

Possibly by John Brown, n.d.

Pen and brown wash drawing of a shepherd carving letters into a tree, with sheep and distant figures in a landscape.

Shepherd Carving an Inscription on Tree Trunk with Figures and Sheep in Background

Possibly Agostino Tassi, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing of a standing woman in classical drapery holding a theatre mask.

Melpomene

Possibly after Polidoro Caldara, called Polidoro da Caravaggio, n.d.

Pencil drawing of Gothic church interior with pointed arch, tracery window, stone tomb with effigy and heraldic shields.

Broughton Church

Style of Samuel Prout, 1830/40

Pen and ink drawing of ornamental ironwork door knockers and brackets with scrolls, figures, and classical column details.

Ironwork Door Knockers

After Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, II, n.d.

Pen drawing of the Holy Family with two angels, a seated Virgin holding the Christ child, and putti at lower right.

Holy Family with Two Angels

after Francesco Albani, 1609/10

Brown wash drawing of a crowded mythological scene with nude figures, winged horses, sea monsters and a radiant central light

Chaos

Joshua Cristall, 1805

Sepia drawing of hunters in a rowboat firing at walruses on an ice floe, with sailing ships on the horizon.

Walrus Hunt

Elizabeth Fitzgerald, 1801

Watercolor and pencil drawing of a standing man in a long brown coat with a mustache, one hand on his hip.

S. Terrason

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, 1849

Brown ink drawing of a crenellated gateway with an arched portal, a fountain inside, and trees and shrubs in the foreground.

View of La Magliana

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi ?, c. 1670

Pen and ink drawing of a goose girl seated beside a boy with a pipe, geese in the grass and a castle behind.

Episode from Grimm's Fairy Tales

Harmon Faber, n.d.

Soft lithograph portrait of a child's head turned left, dark hair loosely shaded, signed Renoir on cream paper.

Claude Renoir, Turned to the Left

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1904, published 1919

Loose ink sketch of two women, one leaning over a ledge with foliage, the other beside a grapevine, on pale paper.

Woman with Grapevine, 3rd variant

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1904

Pencil sketches of two birds on tan paper with handwritten notes in the margins.

Sketches of Birds

Henry Stacy Marks, c. 1888

Pen and brown ink drawing of the Holy Family with a female saint and infant Saint John the Baptist beside a building.

Holy Family with Female Saint and Infant Saint John the Baptist

Giuseppe Santi, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a river landscape with an arched bridge, a tower, and trees framing the scene.

Italianate River Landscape with Bridge with Tower

Possibly after Claude Lorrain, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a bearded man seated between two draped women beside a classical urn, with red chalk accents.

Lot and His Daughters

Follower of Charles Le Brun, 17th century