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Art Institute of Chicago

13,165 works

Etching of a poorly dressed peasant man carrying a child on his back, with a broom beside him.

A Poorly Dressed Peasant

François Boucher, 1755/70

Engraved allegory with seated figures, cherubs and an obelisk under a sunburst, within an ornate oval border with dedicatory

Allegory of the Glory of the Dauphin

Antoine Coypel, 1680

Sepia print of a seated woman holding a child while a man leans in affectionately beside them in an interior.

Ils sont heureux (They are happy)

Philibert-Louis Debucourt, 1796

Etching of a woman carrying a sleeping infant with a ragged boy holding a stick, set before mountains and a wooden house.

The Savoyard

Jacques Dumont le Romain, 1739

Colored anatomical print of a standing man seen from behind, showing muscles and skeleton, with one hand resting on a cane.

Posterior View of Muscle Man, plate nine from Myologie complete

Louis-Charles Gautier-Dagoty, 1773

Engraved bust portrait of a woman in a ruffled bonnet and frilled collar, with caption 'The Late Mrs. Morris' below.

The Late Mrs. Morris

David Claypoole Johnston, 1828

Brown monochrome print of the Holy Family with angels, cherubs, a large tree and a stone pedestal in a landscape.

Holy Family with Angels

Jean Jacques Lagrenée II, n.d.

Etching of three draped female allegorical figures in clouds, one raising a chalice beneath radiant light, with an urn below.

The Three Virtues of Theology

Jean Jacques Lagrenée II, n.d.

Etching of a peasant household with women, children, an old man, a cat, vegetables, and pigeons in a brick interior.

The Household Peasant

Pierre Lélu, 1784

Engraving of a family promenading outdoors by a tree, with a man, a woman in a silk gown, and three children.

The Family Promenade, also called Philippe Mercier, His First Wife, and Family

Philippe Mercier, c. 1725

Lord Byron

Rembrandt Peale, 1825

Drawn print of Saint George, a curly-haired knight with a halo in plate armor, holding a tasseled sword beneath an ornate arc

Saint George in Armor

Ferdinand Piloty, n.d.

Etching of a robed figure reaching into a tree beside a kneeling man, an altar and a crowd in a wooded setting.

Scene from Pliny

Bernhard Rode, 1776

Engraved portrait of Oliver Wolcott, a man in a dark coat and white cravat, with printed title below the image.

Oliver Wolcott, Governor of Connecticut

Isaac Sanford, 1819

Watercolor sketch of a standing woman in a blue cap and draped gown holding a vase of flowers against a grey wall.

The Little Blue Cap

James McNeill Whistler, 1893/95

Stippled engraved portrait of Samuel Thomson, a man in dark coat and white cravat, with caption below.

Sam'l. Thomson, Botanist

Henry Williams, n.d.

Engraving of a tall waterfall plunging over rocky cliffs into foaming pools, with trees and small figures at the lower right.

The Waterfall of Velino Near Terni, Rome

Friedrich Wilhelm Gmelin, 1795

Engraving of a large weeping willow with a classical pedestal and seated figure beside cypress trees and woodland.

Weeping Willow

Jacob Philipp Hackert, 1802

Sepia print of a wooded ravine with rock cliffs, a stream, cattle wading, and small figures on the bank.

The Ravine (Der Hohlweg)

Jacob Wilhelm Mechau, 1794

Sepia print of an ox cart and oxen at a stream beside a rocky cliff, with ruined arches and hills in the distance.

Entrance to the Narrow Pass

Jacob Wilhelm Mechau, 1794

Engraving of a skeletal Death figure striding among fallen revelers in a hall while musicians play above.

Death the Strangler, The First Outbreak of Cholera at a Masked Ball in Paris, 1831

Alfred Rethel, 1851

Lithograph of a woman holding scales with a cupid on one pan and a butterfly on the other, titled Love's the Lightest.

Love's the Lightest

William Browne, n.d.

Etching of two large trees framing a wooded hillside with stone buildings and a tower, with two figures resting on a path bel

In Tivoli (A Tivoli), from the series Picturesque Views of Italy (Malerisch Radierte Prospekte aus Italien)

Johann Christian Reinhart, 1794

Black and white lithograph of a waterfall over rocky ledges, surrounded by pine trees and foliage, with a distant mountain.

The Falls on the Amonoosuck, near the Mt. Washington House (Oakes' White Mountain Scenery)

I. Sprague, 1848

J.B. Restout

the younger Charles-Nicholas Cochin, n.d.

Hand-colored botanical print of a periwinkle plant with pink and white flowers, green leaves, and seed pods on a gray backgro

La Pervenche de Java (The Perwinkle of Java, from the Collection of Usual, Curious, and Foreign Plants)

Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty, 1767

Engraved frontispiece showing allegorical women in classical dress above a fallen nude man, with a temple and battle behind.

Frontispiece to the series Tableaux de la révolution française

Claude Nicolas Malapeau, Published 1804

Etching of a shepherd boy playing a flute beside resting cattle, sheep, a goat and a dog under a tree.

Tranquil Peasant

Philip James de Loutherbourg, n.d.

Sepia print of a seated man in a turban and sash resting on a rock, with a dagger at his waist and a hilly landscape behind.

Domestic Maronite

Philip James de Loutherbourg, n.d.

Engraved rococo plate titled La Terre showing a decorative cartouche, hunters with dogs, a dead hare, and a woodland scene.

Earth

Johann Esaias Nilson, n.d.