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Art Institute of Chicago

3,362 works

Valentine card with a bouquet of red, yellow and pink flowers in a blue and white vase, embossed border and handwritten verse

Is it Weakness thus to Dwell (valentine)

George Kershaw, c. 1840

Valentine card with blue flowers and leaves in an oval wreath, a bird at top, red ribbon, and handwritten sentiments.

Believe My Heart Will Ever Prove (valentine)

George Kershaw, c. 1840

Vertical Japanese woodblock print of a young man in a kimono holding a hawk, with a mountain above.

Young Man with Symbols of the First Dream of the New Year

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1782

Woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono holding a parasol, with Mount Fuji and a pagoda in the distance.

Finely-Dressed Woman Crossing Nihonbashi Bridge

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1783

Victorian Valentine card with teal heart, silver doves, handwritten verse, and painted flower wreath within white lace border

Oh, Had We Only Met in Time (valentine)

George Meek, c. 1850

Victorian valentine with gilt embossed foliage, lace paper panels, a cameo portrait of a woman, and a bouquet of colorful flo

Affections Offering (Valentine)

John Windsor, c. 1850

Valentine card with embossed border, lace diamond, painted yellow flowers, silver birds and handwritten verse in black ink.

Life Will Have No Charms for Me (valentine)

George Kershaw, c. 1850

Victorian-style valentine with embossed border, lace panel, central painted blue flowers, silver birds, black bows and blue h

Life is Sweet (valentine)

George Kershaw, c. 1850

Monochrome print of women and a child seated near a pillar and window in a dim café terrace interior.

Women on the Terrace of a Café in the Evening

Edgar Degas, c. 1876

Grey monotype print of women seated near a column in a café, with a man at the left edge, in soft tonal shading.

Women in Front of a Café, Evening

Edgar Degas, c. 1877

Etching of a nude woman raising her arms to her hair, with a child preparing a basin at right beside a draped bed.

Catherine Prepares the Bath and Louise, Nude, Fixes her Hair

Suzanne Valadon, 1895

Woodblock print of two standing figures in green patterned kimono, one holding a straw basket hat, c. 1749.

The Actors Onoe Kikugoro I and Sanogawa Ichimatsu I dressed as mendicant monks (komuso)

Ishikawa Toyonobu, c. 1749

Red and black chalk drawing of a nude older bald bearded man seated and twisting, one arm raised, facing left.

Nude Old Man Seated, Leaning on His Forearm, Facing Left

Jacob Jordaens, c. 1640

Charcoal and chalk self-portrait of a man in a fur cap looking directly at the viewer against a dark background.

Self-Portrait in a Fur Cap

Joseph Wright of Derby, 1765/68

Sketch in chalk on tan paper of a nude woman seen from behind, head bowed, arm raised, with drapery at her legs.

Crouching Woman

Eugène Delacroix, 1827

Ink sketch of women in a boat among reeds and trees, with another boat and a wading figure on distant water.

Gathering Seaweed at Omori

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, n.d.

Illuminated manuscript page of Pentecost with the Virgin and apostles under golden haloes, framed by ornate foliage border.

The Pentecost, from a Book of Hours

Unknown artist, c. 1430

Illuminated Book of Hours page with blue initial, Latin text, floral borders, and small knight and bird creatures.

Text Leaf from a Book of Hours

Unknown artist, c. 1430

Medieval illuminated antiphonary leaf with square musical notation, a decorated initial, foliate border and kneeling figures.

Abraham Drawing the Children of Israel to His Breast, and Christ with Kneeling Monks, from an Antiphonary

Flemish or Southern England, 1330/40

Two-panel black and white print: left a dressing table with mirror and cat, right a nude woman at a doorway beside a bed.

Nude Woman at the Door of her Room

Edgar Degas, 1879

Four Heads of Women

Edgar Degas, 1876-77

Woodblock print of two Japanese women in patterned kimono, one tall with fish-patterned sleeve, one younger beside her, with

The Courtesan Somenosuke of the Matsubaya House, from the series "Fuji-bumi (Folded Love-letters)"

Ippitsusai Bunchō, c. 1769/70

Woodblock print of two women and a child on a veranda gazing at a full moon beside bamboo.

Two Women and a Child Viewing the Full Moon

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1767/68

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono with a man reaching toward her, bamboo and tiled roof behind.

Man Pulling at a Woman's Kimono

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1768/69

Woodblock print of two women, one holding a calligraphy scroll and one reading a book, with a flowering branch in a vase.

Calligraphy, from the series "Fashionable Versions of the Four Accomplishments (Furyu kinkishoga)"

Isoda Koryusai, c. 1776/81

Engraving of the Judgment of Solomon with a soldier, two women, a baby and seated figures in an arched hall.

The Judgment of Solomon

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1555

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor as a mendicant monk in red robe and snow, with snowy pine branches above.

Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as a Mendicant Monk in “Courtesan: Kerria Roses at Ide” (“Keisei Ide no yamabuki”)

Katsukawa Shunkō, About 1787

Vertical Japanese woodblock print of a woman in patterned kimono holding an umbrella in rain beside a willow tree.

Young Woman Walking on a River Bank in Rain

Kubo Shunman, late 18th/early 19th century

Woodblock print of a woman on a verandah holding a letter, beneath a branch of plum blossoms, in a grey kimono.

Woman on a Verandah About to Open a Letter

Katsukawa Shunshō, mid-late 1770s

Engraving of an ornamental design with a grotesque mask, two satyrs, putti, a fruit basket and a trophy of arms.

Ornamental Design with a Couple of Satyrs, Children and a Trophy

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1550