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Art Institute of Chicago

3,362 works

Engraving of fishermen sorting fish on a beach beside barrels, ropes, a ruined brick tower, and a moored boat.

Water, plate three from The Four Elements

Jan van de Velde II, 1622

Lithograph of a stout man in a boater hat at a cloakroom counter as an attendant holds out his cane. Caption below.

Menus propos

Félicien Rops, published May 24, 1857

Color print of a mother seated in a chair holding a crying blond toddler in a white dress against a green background.

The Barefooted Child

Mary Cassatt, 1896-98

Bust of an Oriental Man

Jan Lievens, 1627/74

Daumier caricature: an old man in period dress holds a laurel wreath before seated women in an ornate hall.

Academy of Women. A new Richelieu, founding a new Academy of a different kind.... of the feminine gender, plate 33 fr…

Honoré Daumier, 1843

Lithograph of a man rowing a boat on rough seas while a frightened woman sits in the stern, with a distant sailing ship.

Mr. Prudhomme: “- Obnoxious waves.... don't you know whom you are carrying in this moment?... oh audacious... know I…

Honoré Daumier, 1859

Hand-colored winter print of a snowy farmyard with cows in a barn, a man carrying hay, and a farmhouse.

A Snowy Morning

Fanny F. Palmer, 1864

Hand-colored caricature of rats with human faces fleeing a columned doorway away from a parliament chamber.

Parliamentary Reform

James Gillray, published May 28, 1797

Hand-colored satirical etching of a man lunging at an old woman holding banknotes beside a Bank of England strongbox, 1797.

Political-Ravishment

James Gillray, published May 22, 1797

Brown wash drawing of Punchinello figures chopping and stacking logs beside a brick cottage with a thatched roof.

Punchinello Chopping Logs, from the series Divertimento per li regazzi (Entertainment for Children)

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1790/1804

Woodblock print of three women in kimono walking past dark-blue shops with white signboards along an Edo street.

Cotton-goods Lane, Odenma-cho (Odenma-cho momendana), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hy…

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1858

Japanese woodblock print of a woman and attendant, with a tall box sign bearing calligraphy, in pink and yellow kimono.

A Woman Peddler of Needles and Thread

Hanegawa Chincho, c. 1730

Woodblock print of a woman with an upswept hairstyle biting thread while holding a needle, in a patterned kimono.

A Wife of the Lower Rank (Gebon no nyobo), from the series "A Guide to Women's Contemporary Styles (Tosei onna fuzoku…

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1801/02

Woodblock print of a woman in a checked kimono tuning a shamisen, with an elaborate black hairstyle and red hair ornaments.

Turning a Shamisen (Shamisen no nejime), from the series "Chanting to Shamisen by Young Women of Today (Tosei musume…

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1804/06

Charcoal drawing with white highlights of a bent woman in a long dress, hands covering her face, standing on cobblestones.

Weeping Woman

Vincent van Gogh, 1883

Stylized woman's face with flowing blue hair above a cluster of red roses, in a flat graphic print style.

Woman's Head with Roses

Koloman Moser, 1899

Woodblock print of blossoming cherry trees, a teahouse and torii gate along the Sumida River embankment, with boats and pedes

The Mimeguri Embankment on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa Mimeguri tsutsumi), from the series "Famous Places in the Eas…

Utagawa Hiroshige II, 1862

Woodblock print of a woman in a green jacket and red skirt gathering seaweed in shallow water beside a basket and shrubs.

Woman gathering seaweed

Utagawa Hiroshige, n.d.

Ink sketch of a seated woman in a wide skirt beside a small man in a tall top hat on a white sheet.

Sketches of Man and Woman Seen from Above

Philipp William May, n.d.

Woodblock print of a woman in a black floral kimono on a veranda, with a river, boats and a paper lantern behind her.

Women Standing on Veranda by a River

Chokosai Eisho, c. 1780/1800

À Menilmontant by Bruant, plate four from Yvette Guilbert

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1898, printed 1930

Black and white woodcut of ten panels showing intimate interior scenes with couples, a reclining woman, curtains and a sleepe

Cancellation sheet, fragments of ten woodblocks from Intimacies

Félix Edouard Vallotton, 1898

Man with a Large Bow Tie

Edward Henry Corbould, 1835/1905

Lithograph of an older man reading a blank newspaper while a woman in a white bonnet watches him at a round table.

The Subscriber and His Newspaper. “- Listen darling, the first three columns of my morning paper are completely empty…

Honoré Daumier, 1842

Caricature lithograph of two stern men in a schoolroom with a gesturing boy at left and rows of pupils at right.

“- As you can see, Monsieur, I have enforced in my school perfectly good discipline. You cannot imagine to what exten…

Honoré Daumier, 1846

Color print of a young woman with a ribbon in her hair, wearing a blue wrap and orange dress with a rose, against a dark back

Bust of a Woman

Louis-Marin Bonnet, c. 1771

Pen and ink sketch of a mounted rider on a prancing horse with turbaned companions and a spear, on tan paper.

Arab Horsemen

Rodolphe Bresdin, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing of a village by a river with horsemen on a path and a rowing boat with figures on the water.

Horsemen and Fishermen

Rodolphe Bresdin, n.d.

Etching of a Rouen street with a seated dog, a tree and lamppost, pedestrians in dark coats, and ship masts behind.

Promenade à Rouen: Cours Boieldieu

Camille Pissarro, 1884/96, printed 1896

Etching of a ruined brick Roman temple with columns and ivy-covered walls, small figures and trees in the foreground.

View of the Temple of the Camenae, from Views of Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1773