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Art Institute of Chicago

5,127 works

Sepia watercolor of a wooded hillside overlooking a wide valley of fields and hedgerows under a pale sky.

View from Wilmots Hill, Kent

Samuel Palmer, 1830/1835

Bird's-eye drawing of a 1883 Pennsylvania farmstead with barn, house, orchard, garden, cattle, and horse-drawn plow.

The Property of John P. and Catharina Schuring, Franklin Town, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Ferdinand A. Brader, 1883

Hand-colored print of three women in white dresses and bonnets struggling with parasols in a high wind, with trees and a smal

The Graces in a High Wind

James Gillray, published May 26, 1810

Grey wash drawing of an old woman lifting bed curtains to reveal a grinning changeling infant, with a winged fairy at a windo

The Changeling

Attributed to Henry Fuseli, c. 1780

Attributed drawing of a bearded man with raised arms beside a winged figure and a crouching red creature in a dark, stormy la

Prospero, Miranda, Caliban and Ariel

Attributed to Henry Fuseli, 1800/05

Watercolor of two peasant women in a rocky mountain landscape, one standing in a red cap and one seated in a red headscarf.

Peasant Women from the Region of the Eaux-Bonnes

Eugène Delacroix, 1845

Pastel drawing of ballerinas in pink tutus on a stage, with dark audience silhouettes in the foreground and a green backdrop.

Ballet at the Paris Opéra

Edgar Degas, 1877

Pen and brown ink sketch of a seated nude woman on a rock holding a bundle, with handwritten inscriptions on the paper.

The Nymph of Capri

Attributed to Pier Leone Ghezzi, n.d.

Brown ink caricature of an elderly bald man with a large nose leaning on a walking stick, with handwritten inscription above.

The Duke of Capodichino

Attributed to Pier Leone Ghezzi, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a nude woman seen from behind, holding a billowing veil, with a signature at lower right.

Standing Nude Woman Holding a Veil

Attributed to Pier Leone Ghezzi, n.d.

The Duchess of Noia

Attributed to Pier Leone Ghezzi, n.d.

Graphite sketch of a standing male nude with one arm raised behind his head, with faint plant sketches at the base.

Male Nude

Edward Burne-Jones, 1885

Pastel of a ballerina in a pale tutu with coral bodice standing on stage, with dancers behind her.

The Star

Edgar Degas, 1879/81

Pencil studies of male figures on aged paper: two standing men at top and a seated draped figure below.

Studies of Male Figures

Giovanni Paolo Panini, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a reclining female nude with one arm raised, resting on a couch.

Female Nude Reclining with Arm Raised

attributed to Aert de Gelder, c. 1665

Pencil sketch of a mounted warrior with a lance beside a horse, and two standing women drawn in loose overlapping lines.

Study for Marphise and the Mistress of Pinabel

Eugène Delacroix, c. 1852

Watercolor of a busy harbor with moored sailing ships, figures on the quay, and white cliffs behind the town.

Dover Harbor

John Gendall, c. 1820

Pen and brown ink drawing of a satyr playing pipes by a pool with a nymph and putto under trees.

Satyr, Nymph and Putto by Pool

After Michel Corneille, the Younger, n.d.

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

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

Charcoal and wash study of a reclining nude male figure with eyes closed, legs outstretched, and a sketched arm at upper righ

Study for L'Autopsie

Paul Cézanne, 1867/69

Brown ink and wash drawing of two sailing frigates with full sails and small rowboats near the shore.

Two Frigate

Claude Lorrain, 1641

Pencil drawing of a classical interior with an oval medallion, an urn, and a couple in cloaks before a chimney-piece.

Interior with a Couple Before a Chimney-Piece

Hubert Robert, c. 1785

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.

Ink and wash drawing of an artist sketching a bishop at dinner from behind a screen, with a cherub in the clouds above.

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin Executing the Portrait of the Bishop of Chartres

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1768

Green-toned drawing of a stream beside rocks and trees, with mountains fading into the distance under a pale sky.

River Stream with Mountains in the Distance

Alexander Helwig Wyant, 1856/92

Jaguar Standing

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1830/50

Persian manuscript page with a painted miniature of a rider, horse, reclining figure and seated woman beside a tree.

Khusrau Gazing at Shirin, from a copy of the Khamsa of Nizami

Unknown artist, 1485 (890 A.H.)

Red chalk drawing of a bacchanal with revelers, satyrs, goats and a barrel beneath a vine-covered arbor.

Bacchanal

Attributed to Claude Gillot, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a standing figure at a door while a woman looks down from a brick building window; a well and birds at

Saint Peter and Rhoda

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, n.d.