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Art Institute of Chicago

3,362 works

Watercolor of young women in white gowns pulling ribbons in a parlor, with onlookers and overturned furniture around them.

Frightful Result

Kate Greenaway, n.d.

Pencil and watercolor drawing of women and children in period dress carrying yellow flowers and dancing across a grassy field

Welcome Once Again

Kate Greenaway, 1884

Black-and-white woodblock print of seated nude women, a standing nude with fruit, animals and foliage in a bordered frame.

Women, Animals, and Foliage, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

Paul Gauguin, 1898/99

Poster of dancer Jane Avril in orange skirt and black stockings on stage, with a dark silhouette in the foreground.

Jane Avril

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893

Lithographic theater program by Jean Louis Forain showing a standing balding man in a frock coat beside printed cast credits.

Theater Program for Une Journee Parlementaire

Jean-Louis Forain, 1893-94

Loose lithograph sketch of a seated nude woman seen from behind, head bowed, on a pale sheet.

Study of a Nude Woman, from Behind

Jean-Louis Forain, n.d.

Portrait Head of a Man in Profile

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a seated bowed figure being stripped of cloth by a helmeted soldier beside arches and a column.

Christ Stripped of His Garments

Lorenzo Garbieri, n.d.

Three chalk head studies of a man in a striped cap, drawn in red and black on toned paper.

Three Studies of the Head of a Turbaned Black Man

Nicolas Lancret, 1720/30

Woodblock print of a woman in a pink kimono with an umbrella beside a river, under a willow, with two frogs.

A Young Woman Watching Frogs (parody of Ono no Tôfû)

Torii Kiyomitsu, c. 1760

Black and white woodblock print of a man seated at a table gazing at a moon above willow trees beside a hut.

Man in Thatched Hut Viewing the Moon

Nishimura Shigenaga, c. 1740s

Brown wash drawing of women examining tablets in a colonnaded setting, with cherubs in the upper left corner.

Women Looking at Religious Tablets

after Lazzaro Baldi, n.d.

Susan in a Straw Bonnet

Mary Cassatt, c. 1883

Girl Plaiting her Hair (La Natte)

Berthe Morisot, 1894

Black and white engraving of Christ's body lowered from the cross, mourned by figures, with a crown of thorns and ladder.

Lamentation of Christ, from The Engraved Passion

Albrecht Dürer, 1507, published 1513

Pen and wash drawing of a woman bound to a stake among kindling, with a kneeling figure and a helmeted warrior nearby.

Clorinda Rescues Olindo and Sophronia

Unknwon artist, 1600s

Three studies of seated women in period dress, one reading, one playing a lute, one glancing sideways, in chalk on tan paper.

Three Studies of Seated Women

Jean-Antoine Watteau, c. 1715

Illuminated page with a crowned kneeling figure, red-robed attendants, a walled city, heraldic shields and a gold inscription

Pope Pius II, frontispiece to a Constitution of the Sienese Church of the Year 1464

Unknown artist, 1464; possibly 19th century copy

Olive-green lithograph of a man in a top hat and a woman in a ruffled dress carrying a round box, on cream paper.

The Old Gentlemen

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1894, published before 1910

Brown ink drawing of a sun chariot in clouds above a seated woman, a pointing youth, and a classical landscape with buildings

Study for the Omen of the Future Greatness of Augustus: Left Portion

After Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano, n.d.

Illuminated manuscript initial R showing the Virgin holding a red book, surrounded by kneeling haloed saints in gold and blue

The Virgin Adored by Saints in a Historiated Initial "R" from an Antiphonary

Unknown artist, 15th century

Medieval painted initial P showing the Nativity with Mary, Joseph, the infant Christ in a manger, animals and angels on gold.

The Nativity in a Historiated Initial "P" from a Choir Book

Unknown artist, c. 1390

Medieval manuscript page of two columns of Latin text with a decorated pink and green initial letter at lower left.

Bifolia from a Vita Sanctorum, or Lives of the Saints

Unknown artist, c. 1150

Illuminated initial A showing the Virgin Mary ascending between two angels while apostles kneel around an open tomb below.

The Assumption of the Virgin in a Historiated Initial "A" from an Antiphonary

Unknown artist, 15th century

Medieval prayerbook page with a decorated gold and blue initial G, blackletter text and leafy floral borders.

Illuminated Initial "G" from a Prayerbook

Unknown artist, 15th century

Illuminated initial E showing three haloed women in a landscape with gold sunburst sky, framed by green foliage and gilt deco

The Three Marys at the Tomb in a Historiated Initial "E" from a Choirbook

Unknown artist, 1470/80

Illuminated manuscript page with a painted saint in a gold initial, square chant notation and a floral border.

Saint Peter in a Historiated Initial "E" from a Gradual

Unknown artist, 15th century

Miniature of Christ's body being laid in a stone sarcophagus, mourners around it, a medieval city behind, c. 1480.

The Entombment (Stabat Mater Prayer), from a Book of Hours

circle of Jean Colombe, c. 1480

Head of a Woman

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, c. 1890

Pen drawing of ornamental plaster pilaster details with floral bracket and fluted panels, Auditorium Building, Chicago.

Auditorium Building, Chicago, Illinois, Ornamental Plaster Work, Pilaster Details

Adler and Sullivan, c. 1887