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Art Institute of Chicago

13,165 works

Haloed friar in yellow habit before brick wall, gesturing to kneeling donors while a figure holds a red flame.

St. Francis of Assisi with Donors in a Historiated Initial from an Unidentified Manuscript

Unknown artist, c. 1400

Pencil drawing of a robed female saint holding a spear, standing in an arched niche between two pilasters.

Saint Standing in a Niche

Follower of Carolo Maratti, n.d.

Pen and brown ink study of struggling figures among classical columns and arches, with a seated woman and a fountain.

Study for the Rape of the Sabines

Circle of Jacopo Zanguidi, called Bertoia, 1564/74

Brown and pink wash drawing of a kneeling woman in a draped robe with hands clasped in prayer, with blue cloth behind her.

Draped Female Figure at Prayer

Francesco Fontebasso, n.d.

Red chalk sketch of a young woman with curled hair and a headdress, gazing upward, drawn in loose lines.

Portrait of Lady

John Hoppner, n.d.

Portrait of a Woman

John Downman, n.d.

Charcoal study of a young woman in a headscarf leaning against a pillar, looking over her shoulder.

Study of a Peasant Girl

Camille Roqueplan, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a nude woman seen from behind, holding a round fan, with a braid over her shoulder.

Nude Figure Holding a Fan

Charles French, n.d.

Engraved oval portrait of a man with long wavy hair and lace cravat, with Latin inscription and coat of arms below.

Portrait of D. Hieronymous van Beverningk

Abraham Blooteling, n.d.

Etching of a bowman drawing his bow beside a pool, with a bird flying overhead and robed figures before a domed building.

The Bowman, frontispiece from The Epic of Kings, Stories Retold from Firdusi

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1882

Etching of a tall column topped with a statue beside a garden terrace, with figures, trees and city rooftops behind.

Luxembourg Column, Paris

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, 1900

Manuscript page with a painted viper coiled among rocks beside a shrub with red flowers, framed by Persian calligraphy.

Viper in a Rocky Garden from Manafi' al-Hayawan (On the Usefulness of Animals) of Ibn Bakhtishu'

Unknown artist, c. 1300

Drawing of a seated nude woman with hair in a bun, looking down, on a blue-grey toned paper.

Seated Female Nude

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, n.d.

Engraved portrait of a woman in a lace ruff and pearls, framed by flowers and drapery, with cherubs below a cartouche.

Elisabeth of Bourbon, Queen of Spain, plate 13 from Duces Burgundiae (Dukes of Burgundy)

Jacob Louys, 1644

Sepia etched portrait of a bearded elderly man wearing a light head wrapping over a dark cloth.

Study of an Arab Head

Hubert von Herkomer, 1895

Pencil portrait of a bearded man in a ruff collar and period dress, shown in an oval vignette on a pale sheet.

Portrait of Henry IV

Baron François-Pascal-Simon Gérard, 1817

Watercolor sketch of a clown balancing on one leg above a small black piglet in a circus ring with spectators behind.

At the Circus Fernando: Medrano with a Piglet

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, c. 1889

Engraved print of a seated woman and a helmeted armored figure with spear and shield, framed by a vine border, with the word

Invicta

Richard Dadd, 1842

Lithograph sheet music cover of two cadets in uniform beside a river landscape, framed by a decorative vine border.

Design cover for West Point Song of the Graduates

James McNeill Whistler, 1852

Pen and ink sketch of a butterfly with hatched wings and handwritten margin notes on pale paper.

Butterfly

James McNeill Whistler, 1898/99

Etching of a uniformed sergeant standing beside a seated clerk writing at a table in a sparse interior room.

The Sergeant Reporter

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, 1862

Engraved oval portrait of a man with long curled hair, lace collar and sash, framed by inscription and coat of arms.

Louis Phélypeaux de la Vrillière

Robert Nanteuil, 1662

Pen and wash drawing of a dim theatre interior with seated audience members and gas lamps glowing on the walls.

The Old Bedford (recto); The Gallery of the Old Bedford (verso)

Walter Sickert, c. 1894

Large Female Head

the Younger Gilles Antoine Demarteau, c. 1788

Print of a woman in a white headscarf turning over her bare shoulder, rendered in soft chalk-like tones against a dark backgr

Large Female Head

the Younger Gilles Antoine Demarteau, c. 1786

Sketch after "Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder"

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1879

Hand-colored 1788 print of a man kissing a woman's hand in a garden with a cupid statue and fountain, with French verse below

Le Main (The Hand)

Philibert-Louis Debucourt, 1788

Hand-colored 1788 print of a man kneeling to offer a rose to a seated woman in a garden beside a Cupid statue.

La Rose (The Rose)

Philibert-Louis Debucourt, 1788

Old Man with Spectacles, from Life-Sized Heads

Thomas Frye (, 1760

Print of Dante swooning as Virgil stands beside him, with the souls of Paolo and Francesca and a swirling crowd rising above.

Dante Swoons before the Soaring Souls of Paolo and Francesca, Virgil at his Side

Henry Fuseli, c. 1818