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Art Institute of Chicago

13,165 works

Line engraving of allegorical women and a child with a distant castle, titled Dessein, Pensée ou Croquis.

Design: Sketch, from Encyclopédie

Benoît-Louis Prévost, 1762/77

Design: Study, from Encyclopédie

A. J. Defehrt, 1762/77

Engraved landscape with a leaning tree, a woman with a pitcher by a river, an arched bridge and town buildings.

Design: Landscape Study, from Encyclopédie

Benoît-Louis Prévost, 1762/77

Engraved plate of the Farnese Hercules showing front, back, and side views with proportion guides, plus head, arm, and pelvis

Design: Proportions of the Farnese Hercules, from Encyclopédie

Benoît-Louis Prévost, 1762/77

Engraved plate of male figure studies in front, back and side views with proportion measurements, plus feet and head details.

Design: Proportions of the Antinoüs Statue, from Encyclopédie

A. J. Defehrt, 1762/77

Engraved plate showing four figure studies of the Pythian Apollo with proportion lines and measurement notes.

Design: Proportions of the Pythian Apollo, from Encyclopédie

A. J. Defehrt, 1762/77

Engraved plate with three figure studies of the Laocoon statue annotated with proportion measurements and serpents.

Design: Proportions of the Laocoon statue, from Encyclopédie

A. J. Defehrt, 1762/77

Engraved plate of the Medici Venus in front, back and side views with proportion annotations and detail studies of head, hand

Design: Proportions of the Medici Venus, from Encyclopédie

Benoît-Louis Prévost, 1762/77

Ink and watercolor drawing of a standing woman in a dark voluminous skirt and off-shoulder ruffled bodice, with curled hair.

Standing Woman

Constantin Guys, c. 1870-1875

Etching of two figures on a wooden bridge over a river in a steep rocky gorge lined with pine trees.

In Höllenthal

Johann Christoph Erhard, c. 1818

Print of a castle built into a cliff face above a forest and a pool, with a cave opening and a footbridge.

Predjama Castle in Krein, Twelve Hours from Trieste

Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1816

Japanese woodblock print of white chrysanthemums and pink pinks in a black two-handled vase on a red stand.

White Chrysanthemums and Pinks in a Black Vase

Attributed to Ippitsusai Buncho, 1765/70

A Young Woman in Profile

Giovanni Marco Pitteri, 1750/59

Engraved portrait of a boy with tousled hair holding a dog against his shoulder, both gazing toward the viewer.

A Boy with a Dog

Giovanni Marco Pitteri, 1750/59

Etching of a bare-chested man raising his arm among pine trees in a dark forest, with a cart in the foreground.

Kullervo Cursing

Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1896

Chalk study of a bearded man gazing upward on tan paper, with white highlights on the forehead and cheeks.

Head of Saint Stephen: Study for the Martyrdom of Saint Stephen

Jacopo Cavedone, 1627/30

Color print of a woman with closed eyes holding a flower, with trees and a small figure in a park behind her.

Attitudes are Easy and Chaste, plate two from Love

Maurice Denis, 1898, published 1899

The Knight Did Not Die at the Crusade, plate five from Love

Maurice Denis, 1898, published 1899

Color lithograph of a seated woman in a red polka-dot skirt beside a child reading a book on a patterned sofa.

On the Pale Silver Sofa, plate ten from Love

Maurice Denis, 1898, published 1899

Pastel lithograph of a woman with roses at her neck and a hand reaching forward beside a tree and green lawn.

And It is the Caress of Their Hands, plate eight from Love

Maurice Denis, 1898, published 1899

Soft pastel lithograph of a woman with lowered eyes and bare shoulders beside pale roses, with a glowing night landscape behi

She was More Beautiful Than Dreams, plate seven from Love

Maurice Denis, 1898, published 1899

It was a Religious Mystery, plate four from Love

Maurice Denis, 1898, published 1899

Lithograph of a blonde young woman in a pink dress before blossoming trees, with white roses and a soft yellow sky.

Twilights Have the Softness of Old Painting, plate six from Love

Maurice Denis, 1898, published 1899

Soft pink and green print of a woman resting her hand on a rose beside a garden fountain, with trees and a shuttered house be

The Morning Bouquet, Tears, plate three from Love

Maurice Denis, 1898, published 1899

Soft pastel print of a seated nude woman with closed eyes beside a window, draped in white cloth, by Maurice Denis.

But It is the Heart That Beats Too Quickly, plate twelve from Love

Maurice Denis, 1898, published 1899

Etching of the Petit Pont in Paris with stone arches over the Seine, Notre-Dame towers behind tall buildings, and figures on

Le Petit Pont, Paris

Charles Meryon, 1850

Etching of a stone house with a turret and spiral staircase on a city street, with chimneys smoking above.

House with a Turret, rue de la Tixéranderie

Charles Meryon, 1852

Etching of the Ministry of the Navy in Paris with columns, carriages in the street, an obelisk, and birds flying across a clo

The Admiralty, Paris

Charles Meryon, 1865

Etching of a tall Gothic church tower in Rouen with a tree and small figures in a square below.

Tour St. Laurent, Rouen

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, 1899

Woodblock print of a man in black robe with two women in kimono and a boy on a wooden veranda.

The Tenth Month (Jugatsu), from the series "Twelve Months in the South (Minami juni ko)"

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1783/84