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Art Institute of Chicago

657 works

Brown wash drawing of female figures on clouds with winged putti, including two cherubs carrying objects below, on an octagon

Mary as Queen of Heaven or Apotheosis of Saint

Attributed to Antonio Balestra, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a thatched farm with men handling cows on a dirt road beside a large tree.

Farm with Men and Cows

Possibly Ferdinand Kobell, n.d.

Hand-colored print of a girl steadying a boy in a red jacket on stilts in a garden with roses and a tree.

The Stilts

Louis-Marin Bonnet, n.d.

Charcoal sketch of a bearded man in a dark jacket leaning on a chair, with a loosely drawn interior behind him.

Portrait of Charles Deering

Anders Zorn, 1893

Brown monochrome print of a mother and haloed infant surrounded by five figures, with a winged figure arching above.

Nativity (Mother and Child Surrounded by Five Figures)

Paul Gauguin, c. 1902

Red chalk drawing of winged angels and putti playing musical instruments among clouds.

Music-Making Angels

Possibly attributed to Vittorio Maria Bigari, n.d.

Etching of an ornate arched doorway in Venice with barred windows and dark water reflections in the foreground.

Doorway, Venice

Joseph Pennell, 1884

Engraving of a seated draftsman sketching beside a classical statue and standing observer, with a brazier in the foreground.

Etude du Dessein (The Drawing Lesson)

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, 1749

Engraving of a seated man showing playing cards to a girl and a standing boy at a draped table in an interior.

Les tours de cartes (The card trick)

Louis Surugue, 1744

Engraving of a schoolmistress in a bonnet guiding a child writing letters at a wooden desk.

School Mistress

François Bernard Lépicié, c. 1740

Black-ink side elevation drawing of a three-story house with balustrade, cornice, arched entrance and red dimension lines.

Bryan Lathrop House, Chicago, Illinois, Side Elevation

McKim, Mead and White, c. 1892

Etching of two sailors in the foreground beside a scaffolded ship under construction, with workers and rigging in a circular

Shipyard with Two Sailors

Stefano Della Bella, n.d.

Lithograph of a glasshouse interior with tall palms, ferns, climbing vines, ornate columns, and a reclining figure on the flo

View of the Palm House on the Peacock-Island

Friedrich Julius Tempeltei, c. 1844

Red chalk drawing of the Presentation in the Temple with an elderly priest holding the infant, the Virgin, and attendant figu

The Presentation in the Temple

Girolamo da Santacroce, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of Christ praying in a garden as an angel offers a chalice, with sleeping apostles in the foreground.

Christ in the Olive Garden

After Jacopo Tintoretto, 1590/1600

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin and Child with two saints, one holding a lily branch, with faint transfer grid lines.

The Virgin and Child with Saint Clare and Saint Francis

Circle of the Carracci, 1580/90

Pencil study on tan paper of billowing and folded drapery, with a smaller crumpled cloth study below.

Study for Festival

Edward Poynter, c. 1875

Decorative mount with a Greek key border, swirling pen-drawn foliage, and a central red rectangle, by Theodore Roussel.

Mount for The Sea at Bognor

Theodore Roussel, 1897-99

Circular etching of the Holy Family at a table, with a haloed figure behind a child, a candle, and fruit.

The Holy Family at Table

after Jacques Callot, after 1629

Engraving of Susanna seated nude at a fountain as two bearded elders watch from behind a trellis in a garden.

Susanna and the Elders

Annibale Carracci, 1590/95

Green printed mount with a dark central cartouche surrounded by brown scrolling foliage and a meander border.

Mount for Last Poppies

Theodore Roussel, 1897-99

Engraving of soldiers untying a bound man from a tree, with a crowd on a bridge and a walled city behind.

The Israelites Finding Achior Tied to a Tree, plate two from The Story of Judith and Holofernes

Philips Galle, 1564

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Circumcision: a priest holds an infant at an altar as a kneeling woman gestures beside him.

The Circumcision

Abraham Bloemaert, 1601

Two-panel woodblock print of kabuki actors: a man leading an ox with a maple branch, and a hooded woman in a patterned kimono

The Actors Iwai Hanshiro IV as Okume (right), and Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Koshiba Yukienojo Disguised as the Eboshi…

Katsukawa Shunkō I, c. 1779

Woodblock print of a woman playing zither on a veranda as a horseman and attendant approach past a fence under the moon.

Kogo no Tsubone and Minamoto no Nakakuni

Suzuki Harunobu, early 1760s

Portrait of the Artist's Student Maisonneuve

Eugen Eduard Schäffer, 1824

Black and white etching of six satirical comic vignettes, including a barber shop scene at top left.

A Good Pennyworth from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

George Cruikshank, 1848, printed c. 1880

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in courtesan costume with tall black hair and pink hairpins against a yellow circle.

Iwai Kumesaburo II as the Courtesan Takao in Banzei Okuni Kabuki

Utagawa Kunisada I, c. 1827

Woodblock print of a seated woman in a patterned kimono holding a red-striped fan beside a bench and blind.

Clearing Breeze from a Fan (Ogi no seiran)

Kitao Shigemasa, c. 1772

Etching of startled diners at a table in a room while dark round objects fly through the air, by George Cruikshank.

An Interrupted English Dinner Party at Paris from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-185…

George Cruikshank, 1849, printed c. 1880