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Art Institute of Chicago

5,127 works

Girl Plaiting her Hair (La Natte)

Berthe Morisot, 1894

Pencil study of a crowd scene with a rearing horse, a seated figure on a pedestal, and kneeling figures in the foreground.

Study

Attributed to Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari, c. 1686

Red chalk drawing of a seated youth in a monk's habit holding a book, with white highlights and faint grid lines.

Seated Youth Wearing a Monk's Habit: Study for Saint Benedict

Bartolomeo Cesi, 1590

Brown wash drawing of a sick man on a bed with kneeling men and winged angels beneath a shaft of light.

Healing of the Paralytic

Possibly Johann Gottlieb Prestel, n.d.

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of two reclining beggars and a seated woman holding a child beside steps.

Two Reclining Beggars, and Seated Mother and Child, at Foot of Steps

after Girolamo Macchietti, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of a nude male figure leaning forward beside a pillar, with a handwritten inscription on the lower strip.

Copy after Drawing by Carlo Maratta

the elder Francisco Vieira de Mattos, 1731

Brown ink drawing of the Virgin Mary rising on clouds with angels, above an open stone tomb.

Assumption of the Virgin

School of Carlo Maratti, n.d.

Hand-colored lithograph of two women in gowns facing a bearded ragpicker with a basket on a city street.

"What are you looking for here, Philosopher?"

Paul Gavarni, 1847

Brown wash drawing of Christ kneeling on a rock with an angel above and three sleeping disciples in the foreground.

Agony in the Garden

after Taddeo Zuccaro, c. 1600

Ink and wash drawing of a seated woman at a fountain with attendants while a man reaches toward her beside classical architec

David and Bathsheba

Possbily after Giuseppe Passeri, n.d.

Pencil sketch of draped Bacchic figures and Neptune with a trident riding a chariot drawn by two sea horses.

Sketches after the Antique: Bacchic Revels; Neptune in His Chariot

Pirro Ligorio, c. 1535

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Virgin rising into clouds above kneeling figures beside a stone tomb.

Assumption of the Virgin

Pietro da Pietri, n.d.

Two painted pages of a garden scene with blossoming trees, musicians, a seated figure on a dais, and an archer, on gold groun

Garden Scene

Unknown artist, Timurid dynasty (ca. 1370-1507), mid-15th century

Drawing of three figures seated on clouds: a youth raising a bowl, a bearded man resting his head, and a gesturing figure.

Time Seated on Clouds, Flanked by Two Other Angels

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

Graphite sketch of the Pietà with Mary holding the dead Christ, a bearded figure with a vessel, and a standing woman.

Pieta

School of Simone Cantarini, n.d.

Pen and brown wash drawing of a seated woman with a staff, two putti beside her, and a distant landscape.

Magdalene in the Wilderness with Two Putti

François Perrier, n.d.

Upturned Head of Saint Dominic

Lorenzo Sabbatini, called Lorenzino da Bologna, after, n.d.

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

Drawing of a standing Franciscan saint holding a crucifix, with cherubs and clouds in an arched frame, in red chalk and ink.

Standing Franciscan Saint Holding Crucifix

called Il Baciccio Giovanni Battista Gaulli, n.d.

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

Design sheet with ink and pencil studies of a coffee pot, showing a floral rose motif, pearl beading, and spout details.

Ham and Pearling Design for Coffee Pot No. 6652

Tiffany and Company, c. 1882

Red chalk drawing of a bearded saint with a winged lion and putti among clouds, after Domenichino.

Saint Mark

After Domenichino, after 1627

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

Red chalk drawing of a kneeling bearded figure in an orange robe, head bowed, hands clasped to the chest.

Christ Kneeling

After Carlo Dolci, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated woman with a table of vessels, and workers at a furnace in an arched forge interior.

Allegory of Fire (Venus in the Forge of Vulcan)

After Jacopo Bassano, n.d.

Sepia wash drawing of seated figures by a river with moored boats, trees, and a fortified building on the far bank.

Figures Seated by a River

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi ?, n.d.

Red chalk sketch of a standing bearded figure greeting a kneeling veiled woman beneath a draped canopy, with angels above.

Resurrected Christ Appearing to His Mother

Attributed to Ottavio Vannini, n.d.

Black silhouette of a boy, a dog, a child pointing, and a seated woman in a rocking chair beside a table, on pale paper.

Silhouette of Hammond Family

Auguste Edouart, 1842

Head of a Monk

Attributed to Francesco Vanni, n.d.

Drawing of two winged putti playing with swans beside a large vessel, rendered in pen and brown wash on tan paper.

Putti Playing with Swans

Circle of Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael, n.d.