title: Pair of Child's Mocassins

creator: Possibly Sioux

medium: Buffalo rawhide, sewn with sinew; decorated with beads

country: Plains

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Plain
Sioux
Shoe - needlework
Plain indian
Native american
America
Costume accessory - shoe
Costume accessory
Costume
Dress (garment)
Clothing
Native north american


title: Pair of Child's Moccasins

creator: Sioux

medium: Doe skin sewn with sinew; decorated with beads, including soles

source: Art Institute of Chicago

source_id: aic

rights: Public Domain / CC0

rights_statement: Public Domain — CC0 via the Art Institute of Chicago Open Access programme.

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Ogden Armour through the Antiquarian Society


title: Woman's Shoes

creator: Persia

medium: Leather and wood tunnel stitched

country: Persia

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Persia
Costume accessory - shoe
Shoe - misc
Costume
Dress (garment)
Clothing


title: Patten (Overshoe)

creator: England

medium: Leather

country: England

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Shoe - misc
Costume accessory - shoe


title: Pair of Sabots

creator: France, Normandy

medium: Wood, carved with inset jewels

country: Normandy

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Normandy
Shoe - misc
Costume accessory - shoe
Costume
Dress (garment)
Clothing


title: Hevajra Kapaladhara and Nairatmya in Ritual Embrace (Yab-Yum)

creator: Tibet

medium: Opaque watercolor with gold on cotton

country: Tibet

subjects:
Thangka
Tibet
Cloth
Himalayan
Pigment
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: Russell Tyson and Frederick and Nathalie Gookin endowments


title: Buddhist Protector Magzor Gyalmo, the Queen Who Repels Armies

date: 18th century

medium: Silk tapestry (kesi) with black paint

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Tibet
Buddhism
Silk (textile)
Himalayan
Ink
Painting
Asian art
Textile

credit_line: Otto Doering, Jr., Otto Doring III and Margaret Gentle Memorial Funds; Asian Art Aquisition Endowment


title: Two Bijin: Parody of Kanzan and Jittoku

creator: Kawamata Tsunemasa

date: Edo period, Kampô–Kan'en eras, c. 1741–1751

medium: Painting in kakemono form on paper.

country: Japan

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry, No. 9 (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa, ku)

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿

medium: Color woodblock print; oban

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Print
Asian art


title: Bush Warbler on a Camellia Branch

creator: Keisai Eisen

date: early 19th century

medium: Color woodblock print; chu-tanzaku


title: Hares running across waves.

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu)

date: Unknown

medium: Color woodblock prints


title: View of Mt. Fuji from the Sagami River

creator: Hiroshige, Ichirusai

medium: Color woodblock print


title: Arashiyama, Kyoto (Keishi Arashimine)

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige III

medium: Color woodblock print; harimaze fragment


title: Calendar print

medium: Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono


title: Rakta Yamari, a Wrathful Form of Manjushri

date: 18th/19th century

medium: Opaque watercolor on silk

subjects:
Thangka
Tibet
Buddhism
Deitie
Cloth
Himalayan
Pigment
Painting
Asian art
Tanka (scroll or banners)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Masao Kato


title: Horseman and Horsewoman in Park

creator: Francis Arthur Fraser

medium: Pen and black ink, over graphite, on ivory board

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
England
Paper (fiber product)
Ink
Graphite
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection


title: The Barrier is Closed

medium: Pen and black ink, heightened with touches of  white gouache, over traces of graphite, on ivory board

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
England
Paper (fiber product)
Ink
Gouache
Watercolor
Water-base paint
Paint
Graphite
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Man and Woman Riding Horses at Hunt

medium: Pen and black ink, heightened with touches of  white gouache, over graphite, on ivory card


title: Riders and Dogs at Hunt

medium: Pen and black ink, corrected with touches of white gouache, over traces of graphite, on cream board

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
England
Dogs
Animal
Paper (fiber product)
Ink
Gouache
Watercolor
Water-base paint
Paint
Graphite
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Woman's Head

creator: Jozef Israëls

medium: Black pastel, with stumping, on cream wove paper, laid on board

country: Holland

subjects:
Chalk
Holland
Stumping
Paper (fiber product)
Pastel (crayons)
Crayon
Drawing technique
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. A. Edwards


title: Still Life

creator: Hugo Charlemont (Austrian, 1850–1939)

medium: Oil on panel

country: Austria

subjects:
Oil on panel
Austria
Still life
Book
Globe
Maps
Table
Textile
Oil paint (paint)
Oil painting
Panel painting
Oil painting (visual works)
Paint
Organic material
Panel (wood)
Wood (plant material)
Painting
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
European painting

credit_line: A. A. Munger Collection


title: M. Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour

creator: William Rothenstein

medium: Lithograph in black on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Lithograph
England
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: B. F. Ferguson Annuity Fund


title: Mr. Charles Ricketts, A.R.A., and Mr. Charles Haslewood Shannon, R.A.

creator: William Rothenstein (English, 1872-1945)

medium: Lithograph on beige laid paper


title: Auguste Rodin

medium: Lithograph on off-white laid paper


title: The Traveler

creator: Jacques Emile Blanche (French, 1861–1942)

medium: Oil on canvas

country: France

subjects:
Painting
France
Woman
Man
Cloud
Sky
Dresse
Travel
Letter (correspondence)
Horse
Portraits: female subject
Portrait
Century of progress
World' fair
Chicago world' fair
Oil paint (paint)
French
Oil on canva
Paint
Canva
Oil painting
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
European painting

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection


title: Portrait of Gregor Brandmüller

creator: Johann Jakob Haid (German, 1704-1767)

medium: Mezzotint on paper

country: Germany

subjects:
Germany
Portraits
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections


title: Portrait of a Lady

creator: Alphonse de Labroue (French, 1792–1863)

medium: miniature painting

subjects:
Miniature painting
France
Portraits
Stripe
Woman
Portraits: female subject
Painting
Painting technique
Painting (image making)
European decorative arts
European painting
Miniature
French
Nineteenth century

credit_line: Gift of Otto Baer


title: The Pilgrims at Emmaus

creator: Maurice Denis

medium: Lithograph in green, brown, pink, yellow, and grayish-brown on cream wove paper

subjects:
Lithograph
France
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Berthold Loewenthal Fund


title: Mother and Child with Cypress Tree

medium: Lithograph in black on off-white wove paper

subjects:
Lithograph
France
Trees
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: Head of Young Black Man

creator: Andrea Carlo Lucchesi

medium: Charcoal with stumping, on tan wove paper

subjects:
Chalk
England
Stumping
Paper (fiber product)
Charcoal
Plant material
Drawing technique
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Industrial Town in Dunes

creator: George-Ernest Colby

medium: Pen and black ink, on cream wove paper

country: United States

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
United state
Paper (fiber product)
Ink
Coating (material)
Wove paper
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Tree-Lined Road with Houses and Telegraph Poles in Distance

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
United state
Trees
Paper (fiber product)
Ink
Coating (material)
Wove paper
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: The Larder

creator: Richard Earlom (English, 1743-1822)

medium: Mezzotint on ivory wove paper

subjects:
Mezzotint
England
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Thomas B. Marston and Henry N. Tuttle


title: Portrait of William Dunlap

creator: Max Rosenthal (American, 1833-1918)

medium: Mezzotint on ivory chine, laid down on cream wove paper (chine collé)

subjects:
Mezzotint
United state
Portraits
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Bryan Lathrop


title: Summer Landscape with the Child Jupiter

creator: Jan Visscher (Dutch, 1634-1692)

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Etching
Holland
Landscapes
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: The Wheatfield

creator: Jean Jacques de Boissieu (French, 1736-1810)

medium: Etching and drypoint on wove paper

subjects:
Etching
France
Print
Print and drawing


title: Diligence Francaise

creator: Jean-Pierre-Marie Jazet (French, 1788-1871)

medium: Aquatint on cream laid paper

subjects:
Aquatint
France
Print
Print and drawing


title: Landscape

creator: Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich (German, 1712-1774)

date: Date unknown

medium: Etching on antique laid paper

subjects:
Etching
Germany
Landscapes
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: Frère Blaise Feuillan

creator: Benoît Audran II (French, 1698-1772)

medium: Etching on cream laid paper

subjects:
Etching
France
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: Self-Portrait

creator: Ottavio Leoni

medium: Engraving on ivory laid paper

country: Italy

subjects:
Print and drawing
Italy
Portraits
Engraving
Paper
Print


title: Cristoforo Roncalli, called Il Pomarancio

subjects:
Print
Italy
Paper
Engraving
Print and drawing


title: Untitled (Figures in Wooded Landscape)

creator: Henri Mauperché (French 1602-1686)

medium: Etching on laid paper

subjects: France Landscapes

credit_line: The Art Institute of Chicago


title: L'invention de la Croix (The Discovery of the Cross), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

creator: Anne Claude de Caylus (French, 1692-1765) and Nicolas Le Sueur (French, 1691-1764)

medium: Etching and chiaroscuro woodcut from 2 blocks printed in blue-green on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Print
France
Print and drawing
Paper
Etching
Chiaroscuro woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Julius Rosenwald


title: Jesus Christ descendu de la croix (The Lamentation), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

creator: Anne Claude de Caylus (French, 1692-1765)

subjects:
Print
France
Print and drawing
Paper
Etching


title: Alexandre et Roxane, from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

creator: Charles Nicolas Cochin the elder (French, 1688-1754)

medium: Etching in red-brown ink on ivory laid paper


subjects:
Print
France
Print and drawing
Paper
Engraving


title: La Calomnie (The Calumny of Apelles), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

creator: Charles Nicolas Cochin the elder (French, 1688-1754) and Nicolas Le Sueur (French, 1691-1764)

medium: Etching and chiaroscuro woodcut on ivory laid paper


title: Hercule Gaulois, ou L'Eloquence, from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

medium: Etching and chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in green and brown on ivory laid paper


title: Estude pour le tableau de la Dispute (Study for the Disputa), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)


title: La Mort d'Adonis (The Death of Adonis), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

medium: Etching in brown ink on ivory laid paper


title: Jesus-Christ donnant les clefs a Saint Pierre (Christ Giving the Keys to Saint Peter), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

creator: Paul Ponce Antoine Robert (French, 1686-1733) and Nicolas Le Sueur (French, 1691-1764)

medium: Etching and chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks on ivory laid paper


title: Estude pour le tableau de la descente des Sarrazins au port d'Ostie (Study for the Descent of the Saracens at the Port of Ostia), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

medium: Etching in light brown on ivory laid paper


title: Façade d'eglise (Facade of a church), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

medium: Etching in brown on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Architecture
Print
France
Print and drawing
Paper
Etching


title: Paisages (Landscapes), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

subjects:
Print
France
Landscapes
Print and drawing
Paper
Etching


title: La Multiplication des Pains (The Multiplication of Loaves), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)


title: Timoclée justifiée par Alexandre (Timoclea exhonerated by Alexander), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

creator: Anne Claude de Caylus (French, 1692-1765), Nicolas Le Sueur (French, 1691-1764), and Paul Ponce Antoine Robert (French, 1686-1733)

medium: Etching and chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks printed in beige on ivory laid paper


title: Des pecheurs retirant leur filets (Fishermen drawing their nets), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

medium: Etching and chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks printed in beige-brown on ivory laid paper


title: Hersé refusant à Mercure l'entrée chez Aglaure (Aglauros Preventing Mercury from Entering Herse's Room), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper


title: Moise sauve par la fille de Pharaon (Moses Rescued by Pharaoh's Daughter), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)


title: Les Egyptiens submerges dans la Mer Rouge (The Egyptians Drowning in the Red Sea), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

medium: Etching and chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks printed in blue on ivory laid paper


title: La Messe (The Mass), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

medium: Etching and chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks printed in brown on ivory laid paper


title: Jesus Christ au milieu des Apôtres (Jesus Among the Apostles), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

medium: Etching and chiaroscuro woodcut printed in brown and beige on ivory laid paper


title: Grotesques, from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)


title: Dessein de Balthazar Peruzzi de Sienne, from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

medium: Etching and chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks printed in brown on ivory laid paper


title: St. Paul accompagné de deux Saints (Saint Paul with Two Female Saints), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

medium: Etching and chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks printed in brown and green on ivory laid paper


title: La Chute de Phaeton (The Fall of Phaeton), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)


title: L'Empereur Henry IV aux pieds de Pape Gregoire VII (Emperor Henry IV at the feet of Pope Gregory VII), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)


title: Un saint abbé rendant la vue à un aveugle (An Abbot Restoring Sight to a Blind Man), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

medium: Etching and chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in beige on ivory laid paper


title: Des Malades Invoquans un Saint Evêque (The Sick Supplicating a Bishop Saint) , from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)


title: Martyre de Saint Ange, Carme (Martyrdom of Saint Angelo of Jerusalem, Carmelite), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

medium: Etching and chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in brown on ivory laid paper


title: Saint Sébastien (Saint Sebastian), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

medium: Etching and chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in tones of grey on ivory laid paper


title: St. François Xavier mourant (The Death of Saint Francis Xavier), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

medium: Etching and chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in ochre on ivory laid paper


title: L'Assomption de la S.te Vierge (The Assumption of the Virgin), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

medium: Etching and chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in red, rust-brown, and green on ivory laid paper


title: Le St. Esprit descendant sur les Apôtres (The Descent of the Holy Spirit), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

medium: Etching and chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in green on ivory laid paper


title: La S.te Vierge accompagnée de plusieurs Saints (Virgin and Child with Saints), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

medium: Etching and chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in tones of green on ivory laid paper


title: St. Philippe de Nery (The Virgin Appearing to Saint Filippo Neri), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)


title: L'Annonciation (The Annunciation), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

medium: Etching and chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in tones of orange on ivory laid paper


title: The Rape of Europa, from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

creator: Nicolas Le Sueur (French, 1691-1764)

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks in green and brown on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Print
France
Print and drawing
Paper


title: Des Anges portant la Toison de Gedeon (The Angel and the Fleece of Gideon), from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France (Cabinet Crozat)

medium: Etching and chiaroscuro woodcut from one block in blue-green on ivory laid paper


title: Pont-à-Marcq, Enghien

creator: Jan-Théodor-Joseph Linnig

medium: Etching on cream wove paper

country: Belgium

subjects:
Print and drawing
Belgium
Paper
Etching
Print

credit_line: Gift of Elizabeth Hammond Stickney


title: Study of a Resting Cow

creator: Jan Kobell II

country: Netherlands

subjects:
Print and drawing
Netherland
Paper
Etching
Print


title: Landscape with Large Tree, in Background a Ruin

creator: Johann Christian Klengel

subjects:
Print
Germany
Landscapes
Trees
Paper
Etching
Print and drawing


title: Cow and Two Sheep in a River

medium: Etching on cream laid paper

subjects:
Print and drawing
Netherland
Etching
Paper
Print


title: Suzanne at her Bath

creator: Jean Charles Thevenin (Italian, 1819–1869)

medium: Engraving on chine collé, laid down on ivory wove paper

credit_line: The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection


title: Fishermen's Houses, Cape Ann

creator: Stephen Parrish

medium: Etching on tan wove paper

subjects:
Print
United state
Paper
Etching
Print and drawing

credit_line: Bequest of Martha S. Hill


title: Friday Soup Distribution, Rue de Calais, Paris

creator: Edgar Chahine

medium: Drypoint on cream wove paper

subjects:
Print and drawing
France
Paper
Drypoint
Print

credit_line: Gift of Joseph Brooks Fair


title: Tom Jones

creator: Peter Simon (English, c. 1764–1813)

medium: Stipple engraving on ivory laid paper


title: Tableau du Salon du Chateau de Virginie

creator: François Joullain (French, 1697-1778)

medium: Photogravure on tan wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Hammond Stickney


title: The Fall of the Rhine near Schaffhouse

creator: Wilhelm Friedrich Gmelin (German, 1760-1820)

medium: Etching and engraving on cream laid paper


title: Title-page, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)

creator: Claes Jansz. Visscher (Dutch, 1586/87-1652)

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Print and drawing
Netherland
Print
Paper
Etching

credit_line: Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds


title: View Towards a Harbour, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)


title: Temple of Fortune, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)

subjects:
Architecture
Print and drawing
Netherland
Print
Paper
Etching


title: The Ripa Grande, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)


title: Sloop Laden with Hay, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)


title: Road Along a Round Tower, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)


title: The Baths of Trajan, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)


title: Temple of Castor and Pollux, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)


title: Domed Ruin, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)


title: Town on a River, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)


title: The Baths of Diocletian, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)


title: Travellers Halting at an Inn, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)


title: Tiber Island, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)


title: The Temple of Castor and Pollux and the Basilica of Constantine, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)


title: Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)


title: Baths of Diocletian, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)


title: Baths of Caracalla, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)


title: Men and Cattle near a Fountain, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)


title: The Baths of Titus, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)


title: The Church of Trinità dei Monti, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)


title: The Aqueduct of Claudius, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)


title: The Pyramid of Caius Cestius, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)


title: View of Rome from Monte Pincio, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)


title: The Temple of Minerva Medica, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)


title: The Temple of Venus, from Variae Antiquitates Romanae (Roman Ruins)


title: Travellers and Donkeys by a Stream, plate 1 from Landscapes in the Manner of Jan van de Velde

creator: Jacob van der Heyden

country: Flanders

subjects:
Print and drawing
Flander
Landscapes
Print
Paper
Etching


title: The Physician Considered a God, from Allegories of the Medical Profession

creator: Unknown artist (Dutch, active 16th century)

medium: Engraving on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Print and drawing
Netherland
Print
Paper
Engraving


title: Title-page, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)

creator: Attributed to Adriaen Collaert (Flemish, c. 1560-1618)


title: Landscape with a House on Cliffs

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, 1607–1677)

country: Bohemia

subjects:
Print and drawing
Bohemia
Landscapes
Print
Paper
Etching


title: Title-page, from Speculum Illustrium Feminarum

creator: Crispijn van de Passe I


title: Wine, from The Powers that Rule the World

creator: Zacharias Dolendo (Dutch, 1561-c. 1600)


title: The Vision of the Seven Candlesticks, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)


title: St John on Patmos, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)


title: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)


title: The Twenty-Four Elders with Harps around the Throne of God, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)


title: The First Trumpet Call: Hail and Fire Fall from Heaven, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)


title: The Four Angels Staying the Winds and the Servants of God Being Marked on the Forehead, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)


title: The Fourth Trumpet Call: an Angel Crying Woe, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)


title: The Distribution of the Trumpets to the Seven Angels, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)


title: The Sixth Trumpet Call: Angels Kill a Third of Mankind, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)


title: The Fifth Trumpet Call: the Plague of Locusts, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)


title: The Angel with the Opened Book, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)


title: The Apocalyptic Woman and the Seven-Headed Dragon, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)


title: The Beast from the Bottomless Pit, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)


title: Angels Swinging Sickles and Pressing Wine, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)


title: The Adoration of the Lamb on Mount Zion and the Fall of Babel, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)


title: The Adoration of the Beast with Ten Horns and Seven Heads, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)


title: The Whore of Babylon, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)


title: Angels Pouring Out the Seven Bowls of God's Wrath Upon the Earth, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)


title: The Word of God and the Armies of Heaven upon White Horses, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)


title: The Fall of Babylon, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)


title: The Angel Showing New Jerusalem to Saint John, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)


title: The Besiegers of the Holy City Are Consumed by Fire and the Devil Thrown into the Lake of Fire and Sulfur, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)


title: The Angel Locks Satan into the Abyss, from Icones Revelationum... (The Revelations of St John)


title: Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, from Prospectus aliquot locorum...

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

subjects:
Print and drawing
Bohemia
Print
Paper
Etching


title: The Hunter, from Landscapes


title: The Beggar, from Landscapes after Jacques d'Arthois


title: Wiston Place


title: Monjardin Castle

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper, tipped on a wove paper mount


title: Heron Shooting, from Landscapes after Jacques d'Arthois


title: Travellers on a Road by a Village, plate 5 from Landscapes in the Manner of Jan van de Velde


title: Village by a Stream at Nighttime, plate 3 from Landscapes in the Manner of Jan van de Velde


title: A Millhouse, plate 4 from Landscapes in the Manner of Jan van de Velde


title: A Tower by a Church, plate 2 from Landscapes in the Manner of Jan van de Velde


title: The Mocking of Noah

creator: Dirck Volkertsz. Coornhert (Netherlandish, 1522–1590)


title: Pittacus Mitylenaeus, from Seven Wise Men of Greece

creator: Jacques de Gheyn III


title: Topographia Variarum Regionum

creator: Simon Frisius (Dutch, c. 1580–1629)

medium: Twenty four etchings on ivory laid paper, loosely bound into quires (missing plate 11)


title: Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I

creator: Crispijn de Passe, the elder (Dutch, c. 1564–1637)

medium: Engraving in black on cream laid paper

subjects:
Print and drawing
Netherland
Portraits
Print
Paper
Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust


title: Title-Plate, from The Riding School, or Exercise of Cavalry

creator: Attributed to Zacharias Dolendo (Dutch, 1561-c. 1600)

subjects:
Paper
Netherland
Engraving
Print and drawing
Print

credit_line: Gift of Charles Hack and The Hearn Family Trust


title: A Cavalryman Raising his Sword, Riding to the Left, plate 15 from The Riding School, or Exercise of Cavalry

subjects:
Print and drawing
Netherland
Paper
Engraving
Print


title: A Cavalryman, Sword to Shoulder, Riding to the Right, plate 14 from The Riding School, or Exercise of Cavalry

subjects:
Print and drawing
Netherland
Engraving
Paper
Print


title: A Cavalryman Raising a Lance, plate 11 from The Riding School, or Exercise of Cavalry

subjects:
Print
Netherland
Paper
Engraving
Print and drawing


title: A Cavalryman in Full Armour Drawing His Sword, pate 8 from The Riding School, or Exercise of Cavalry

subjects:
Paper
Netherland
Print
Print and drawing
Engraving


title: Two Fools

creator: Attributed to Zacharias Dolendo (Dutch, 1561-c.1600)


title: Standing Female Holding a Book – Mary Magdalen

creator: Jacob Matham (Dutch, 1571–1631)

date: c. 1586, printed after 1617

medium: Engraving and drypoint in black on laid paper

subjects:
Print
Netherland
Drypoint
Engraving
Paper
Print and drawing


title: The Crucifixion

date: c. 1590, printed after 1617

subjects:
Print and drawing
Netherland
Paper
Drypoint
Engraving
Print


title: Sofa

creator: Designed by James Wyatt

medium: Gilded beechwood, gilt bronze, and velvet

country: London

subjects:
Seating
London
Furniture
Beech
Upholstering
Wood (plant material)
Velvet
Bronze
European decorative arts

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Clive Runnells


title: Pair of Candlesticks

creator: Attributed to Francesco Bertos

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects:
Candleholder - candlestick
Italy
Furniture
Bronze
Gilding
Lighting device
European decorative arts
Metalwork
Metalworking

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Edward B. Smith Charitable Fund


title: Auditorium Building: Column Capital and Portion of a Frieze

creator: Adler & Sullivan, architects; American, 1883-1895

medium: Painted wood

country: Michigan Avenue, 430 South

subjects:
Architecture
Architectural fragment
Michigan avenue, 430 south
Chicago
Wood (plant material)
Plant material

credit_line: Gift of Crombie Taylor


title: Small Bowl with Peony Flowers

creator: Korea

date: Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), early 11th century

medium: Celadon-glazed stoneware with underglaze incised decoration

country: Korea

subjects:
Bowl
Korea
Flowers
Stoneware
Korean (culture or style)
Dish (vessel)
Asian art
Ceramic
Decorative arts

credit_line: Bequest of Russell Tyson


title: Small Bowl with Chrysanthemum Flower Heads

date: Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), 14th century

medium: Celadon-glazed stoneware with underglaze inlaid decoration of black and white clays

subjects:
Ceramic
Korea
Flowers
Asian art


title: Oil bottle with Cloud Design

date: Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), late 12th century

medium: Celadon-glazed stoneware with underglaze inlaid decoration of black clay

subjects:
Ceramic
Korea
Asian art


title: Bowl with Pomegranate Branches and Chrysanthemums

date: Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), late 13th century

subjects:
Bowl
Korea
Stoneware
Korean (culture or style)
Dish (vessel)
Asian art
Ceramic
Vessel


title: Ewer in the Form of a Melon with Bamboo Spout

date: Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), 12th century

medium: Celadon-glazed stoneware with underglaze molded decoration

subjects:
Ewer (vessel)
Korea
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Korean (culture or style)
Vessel
Asian art
Ceramic


title: Conical Bowl

date: Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)

medium: Celadon-glazed stoneware

subjects:
Porcelain
Korea
Asian art
Ceramic


title: Bowl with Chrysanthemum Flower Heads

medium: Celadon-glazed stoneware with underglaze inlaid decoration of white clay

subjects:
Stoneware
Korea
Flowers
Asian art
Ceramic


title: Plum Vase with Lotus Flowers

date: Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), late 12th/early 13th century

subjects:
Vase
Korea
Flowers
Stoneware
Korean (culture or style)
Vessel
Asian art
Ceramic


title: Bottle

date: Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), mid–12th century

subjects:
Ceramic
Korea
Stoneware
Korean (culture or style)
Asian art
Vessel


title: Bottle-Shaped Vase with Lotus Flowers and Stylized Scrolls


title: Christ before Pilate

creator: Jacopo Carucci, called Jacopo da Pontormo

medium: Black chalk, with stumping, and traces of red chalk, heightened with traces of white chalk, over stylus incising, on cream laid paper

subjects:
Chalk
Italy
Black chalk
Stumping
Laid paper
Red chalk
White chalk
Drawing technique
Underdrawing (process)
Drawing (image-making)
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing
Paper (fiber product)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Anne Searle (Meers) Bent, The Regenstein Foundation, and Dr. William D. Shorey


title: The Courtesan Yugiri of Ibarakiya, Osaka, from a triptych of beauties of the three capitals

creator: Okumura Masanobu

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; left sheet of hosoban triptych, urushi-e

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: The Poetess Gishumon-in no Tango, from the series The Thirty-six Immortal Women Poets (Nishikizuri onna sanjurokkasen)

creator: Chobunsai Eishi

medium: Color woodblock print


title: Searching for Fireflies

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信

medium: Color woodblock print; chūban


title: Jo and Uba Greeting the Rising Sun

creator: Utagawa Toyoharu

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: Morning-Glories, Rabbits, and Moon

creator: Isoda Koryusai

medium: Color woodblock print; hashira-e


title: Ono no Komachi Praying for Rain

date: Edo period (1615–1868), about 1771


title: The Courtesan Umegawa and Chubei from the Courier Service (Umegawa, Chubei)

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿


title: Young Woman Drops her Geta as She Boards a Boat


title: Shoki in Love


title: Enjoying the Evening Cool at Ryôgoku Bridge in Edo (Edo Ryogokubashi yusuzumi no kei)

creator: Kitao Masayoshi

medium: Color woodblock print; horizontal ô-ôban


title: Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Haya no Kanpei in "Chushingura Nagori no Kura."

creator: Kitao Masanobu (Santo Kyoden)

date: October 1780

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: Portrait of Santo Kyoden, the Master of Kyobashi (Edo hana Kyobashi natori)

creator: Rekisentei Eiri

medium: Color woodblock print; oban

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Portraits
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Act Seven, from the series "Treasury of the Loyal Retainers (Chushingura) (Shichi-damme)"


title: Nakamura Nakazo II as Prince Koretaka disguised as the farmer Tsuchizo in the play "Intercalary Year Praise of a Famous Poem (Uruo Toshi Meika no Homare)," performed at the Miyako Theater in the eleventh month, 1794

creator: Toshusai Sharaku 東洲斎 写楽


title: Reflective Love, from the series "Anthology of Poems: The Love Section (Kasen koi no bu) (Mono-omou koi)"


title: The actor Morita Kan'ya VIII as the Palanquin-bearer Uguisu no Jirosaku


title: The Courtesan Hisui of the Fan House (Ogiya uchi Hisui), from the series The Five Festivals Flower Competition (Gosechi hana awase)

medium: Color woodblock print; ôban (one sheet of a pentaptych)

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Flowers
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Minamoto no Yoritomo Hiding in a Tree

creator: Torii Kiyoshige

medium: Color woodblock print; oban yoko-e, benizuri-e

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Trees
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Kitchen Scene

medium: Color woodblock print; oban diptych


title: Red and White Plum Blossoms with Poem Slip

creator: Ryuryukyo Shinsai

date: About 1810

medium: Color woodblock print; surimono

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Flowers
Writing
Flora
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: A Pair of Boxes, a Letter Box, and Plum Blossoms

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Flowers
Domestic scene
Green (color)
Flora
Bird
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art
Writing


title: The actor Tanimura Torazo as Washizuka Hachiheiji


title: Women viewing dragon and tiger made of tobacco pouches

medium: Color woodblock print; triptych


title: Battle of Nanba (Nanba senki no uchi)

creator: Kawanabe Kyosai

date: after 1871

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print

credit_line: Bruce Goff Archive, gift of Shin'enkan, Inc.


title: Chickens and Drum

creator: Rintei

date: 19th century


title: Man's Coat

creator: France, possibly Lyon

medium: Silk, compound weave foundation; embroidered with silk threads in satin, stem and straight stitches; French knots, needle lace fillings, and slanted satin border block shading

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Fashion
Floral motif
Flower
Embroidering
Needlework (visual works)
Costume
Dress (garment)
Silk (fiber)
Clothing
Compound weaving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Joseph W. Moses


title: Panel

creator: Possibly United States

medium: Painted and stenciled paper

subjects:
Wallpaper
United state
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
European decorative arts

credit_line: Bought from Nancy McClelland, Inc. Gift of Robert Allerton


title: Santa Fe Building: Terracotta Block with Foliate Design

creator: D. H. Burnham & Co.

medium: White glazed Terra-cotta block with foliate design

country: Chicago

subjects:
Earthenware
Chicago
Terracotta
Ceramic
Architectural fragment
Architecture

credit_line: Gift of Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corporation


title: Railway Exchange Building: Blocks with Repeated Meander Pattern

medium: White glazed Terra-cotta

subjects:
Ornament & design
Earthenware
Chicago
Terracotta
Ceramic
Architectural fragment
Architecture


title: Marquette Building: Elevator Grille Base

creator: Holabird & Roche, Architects

medium: Cast iron with Bower Barff finish

country: Dearborn Street, 140 South

subjects:
Architecture
Architectural fragment
Dearborn street, 140 south
Chicago
Iron (metal)
Casting (process)
Metal
Forming

credit_line: Gift of Timothy Samuelson


title: The Fair Store: Block with Central Shell Shape from Facade

creator: William LeBaron Jenney

medium: Terra-cotta

subjects:
Architecture
Architectural fragment
Chicago
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Dearborn Land Company


title: Garrick Theatre: Block of stringcourse from first floor loggia

creator: Adler & Sullivan, Architects, American, 1881-1895

country: Randolph Street, 64 West

subjects:
Earthenware
Randolph street, 64 west
Chicago
Terracotta
Ceramic
Architectural fragment
Architecture

credit_line: Gift of the Commission on Chicago Architectural Landmarks


title: E. W. Blatchford Residence: Lunette Depicting Autumn

creator: Peter Bonnett Wight

medium: Sandstone

subjects:
Architecture
Architectural fragment
Chicago
Chicago artist

credit_line: Gift of Thomas Blatchford


title: Chimney Piece from the Benjamin Lindauer House, Chicago, Illinois

creator: Adler & Sullivan

medium: Unglazed Terra-cotta

subjects:
Earthenware
Chicago
Terracotta
Ceramic
Architectural fragment
European decorative arts

credit_line: Gift by exchange from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville


title: Busby Building, 128 West Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois: Window Keystone

creator: Unknown architect

medium: Limestone

country: Lake Street, 128 West

subjects:
Architecture
Architectural fragment
Lake street, 128 west
Chicago
Limestone
Carbonate rock
Sedimentary rock
Rock

credit_line: Department of Architecture Purchase Account


title: Two Minstrels

creator: Attributed to James Egan (English, 1849-1920)

medium: Stained and painted glass

country: England

subjects:
Glass
England
Arts and craft movement
European decorative arts
British

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Edward Byron Smith, Jr.


title: Madonna and Child

creator: Florentine

medium: Stucco with polychrome

country: Florence

subjects:
Relief
Florence
Virgin and child/madonna and child
Child
Christian subject
Christianity
Jesus
Mother
Mother and child
Religion
Religious
Religious figure
Sons
Virgin mary
Woman
Woman with children
Stucco
Sculpture technique
Plaster
Coating (material)
Sculpture
Italian
Stuccowork
Polychrome
Polychromy
Firing (heating)
Forming
Modeling (forming)
Sculpting

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection


title: Corpus of Christ Crucified

creator: German

subjects:
Limestone
Germany
Crucifixion
Christian subject
Christianity
Figure
Jesus
Man
Religion
Religious
Religious figure
Stonework
Medieval
Statuette
Carbonate rock
Sedimentary rock
Rock
Inorganic material
Sculpture
Sculpture/stone
Stone
German
Carving
Sculpting
Sculpture technique

credit_line: Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection


title: Prometheus and Mercury

creator: Domenico Antonio Vaccaro (Italian, 1678–1745)

medium: Marble

subjects:
Relief
Italy
Mythology
Rock
Fire
Prisoner
Prison
Rope
Nude
Men
Mythical
Mythological figure
Roman
Gods (deities)
Marble
Carving
Metamorphic rock
Inorganic material
Sculpture
Italian
Sculpting
Sculpture technique

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson


title: Apollo and Marsyas

subjects:
Relief
Italy
Gods (deities)
Tree
Men
Satyr
Musical instrument
Violence
Music
Competition
Woman
Man
Marble
Sculpting
Metamorphic rock
Rock
Inorganic material
Sculpture
Italian
Carving
Sculpture technique
Stonework


title: Tile Window Grille

creator: Iran

date: Timurid dynasty (1370-1507), 15th century

medium: Glazed fritware tiles cut and reassembled as a mosaic

country: Iran

subjects:
Ceramic
Iran
Fritware
Architectural fragment
Asian art
Islamic (culture or style)

credit_line: Gift of Arthur Upham Pope


title: Horse-Headed Yogini Hayagriva Seated Holding a Child

creator: India

date: 11th century

medium: Beige sandstone

country: India

subjects:
Sandstone
India
Goddesse
South asian
Stone
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf


title: Sawmill, Outskirts of Paris

creator: Henri Rousseau

medium: Oil on canvas

country: France

subjects:
Oil on canva
France
Countryside
People
Plant
Mill
Tree
Landscape
Painting
European painting

credit_line: Bequest of Kate L. Brewster


title: Kintaro, Urashimataro, and Momotaro, from the triptych "Set of Three Sake Cups for the First Month (Tarozuki mitsugumi sakazuki)"

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿

medium: Color woodblock print; oban triptych

country: Japan

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: Hour of the Dog (Inu no koku), from the series "Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)"

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: Hour of the Dragon (Tatsu no koku), from the series "Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)"


title: Takashima Ohisa


title: Naniwaya Okita


title: Goddess Green Tara Standing with Hand in Gesture of Gift-Giving (varadamudra)

creator: Nepal

date: 10th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Nepal

subjects:
Copper
Nepal
Copper alloy
Himalayan
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Actor Nakamura Nakazô I as Monk Shunkan in “Outing to Pick Pine Seedlings on the Rat-Day of the New Year” (“Hime Komatsu Ne no Hi Asobi”)

creator: Katsukawa Shunkô

medium: Color woodblock print


title: Taima Mandala

creator: Unknown Artist

date: Late 18th century

medium: Color and ink with gold on silk

country: China

subjects:
Ink or chalk wash
China
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: Unrestricted Gift from the estate of Mr. Edward E. Brown


title: Two Horses in Chinese Style, one of six sketches

creator: Kawanabe Kyosai

date: no date

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: The Orientals Purchased with funds provided by for set of six


title: Bijin (Beauty), one of six sketches


title: Two Chinese Women with Dragon, one of six sketches

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on papaer


title: Monkey Trainer, one of six sketches


title: Daruma (Bodhidharma), one of six sketches


title: Lightning God, one of six sketches

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Painting
Asian art


title: Virgin or Saint

creator: French

subjects:
Limestone
France
Woman
Christian subject
Christianity
Religion
Religious
Religious figure
Saint
Stonework
Large scale
Carbonate rock
Sedimentary rock
Rock
Inorganic material
Sculpture
French
Sculpture/stone
Carving
Sculpting
Sculpture technique
Medieval

credit_line: Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection


title: Tokimune (Soga Goro) Sneaking into Yoritomo's Residence (Tokimune Kamakura-dono no kariya o sawagasu)

creator: Migita Toshihide

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Fischer Fund


title: Mori Ranmaru Killed in Battle at Honnoji (Honnoji ni Mori Ranmaru uchijini no zu), from the series "The Record of Toyotomi's Achievements (Toyotomi kunkoki)"

creator: Utagawa Yoshifuji

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print


title: Lord Oda Nobunaga Viewing the Restoration of Kiyosu Castle (Oda Nobunaga ko Kiyosujo shuzen goran no zu)

date: 1888 (printed posthumously)


title: Escape of Emperor Godaigo, from the series "The Unofficial History of Japan (Nihon gaishi no uchi)"

creator: Kobayashi Kiyochika


title: Genji Drawn in Different Styles: View of Akashi Bay (Kakiwake Genji, Akashi ura no kei)

creator: Toyohara Kunichika


title: Sasaki Moritsuna Asking Fisherman to Reveal the Shallows Where His Troops can Cross and Attack the Taira Forces at Fujito in Bizen Province (Sasaki Moritsuna Bizen no kuni Fujito no watari ni Heigun o osowanto gyojin ni mizu no senshin o tou zu)

creator: Mizuno Toshikata


title: The Moon over Gojo Bridge (Gojo no tsuki), from the series "Heroes for the Snow, Moon, and Flowers (Buyu setsugekka)"

creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

medium: Color woodblock print; oban diptych

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Flowers
Japanese (culture or style)
Print


title: Act 12 (Junidanme), from the series "The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers (Kanadehon Chushingura)"


title: Sino-Japanese War

creator: Kobayashi Ikuhide

medium: Color woodblock print; two sheets of oban triptych


title: Kagero: Akushichibei Kagekiyo, from the series "Japanese and Chinese Comparisons for the Chapters of Genji (Wakan nazorae Genji)"

creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi


title: The Naval Battle of Pungdo in Korea (Chosen Hoto kaisen no zu)

medium: Color woodblock print; two sheets from oban triptych

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Ships & the sea
Japanese (culture or style)
Print


title: Kabuki Stars Before a Gracious Waterfall (Arigataki megumi no hanagata)

medium: Color woodblock print; oban pentaptych


title: Minori: Suzuki Saemon Shigeyuki, from the series "Japanese and Chinese Comparisons for the Chapters of Genji (Wakan nazorae Genji)"


title: Long Live the Great Japanese Empire! A Great Victory for Our Troops in the Assault on Songhwan (Dai Nihon teikoku banbanzai, Seikan shugeki waga gun taisho no zu)


title: No. 6: Our Troops Gain Victory at Asan (Sono roku, Gazan waga hei shori o eru)


title: Sino-Japanese War: Two Generals at the Battle of Fenghuangcheng (Nisshin gekisen ryosho Hoojo sen no zu)

creator: Yosai Nobukazu


title: The Beginning of the Korean Incident (Sono hajime Chosen hottan)

creator: Adachi Ginko


title: Fierce Naval Battle Off Takushan (Daikosan oki kaigun no gekisen)


title: Great Victory of Our Forces at the Battle of Pyongyang (Heijo gekisen waga gun taisho no zu)


title: Capturing the Fortress at Niuzhuang (Gyusojo senryo)

creator: Hashimoto (Yoshu) Chikanobu


title: Great Victory of Our Troops at the Fierce Battle of the Ansong Ford (Anjo no watashi waga gun taisho no zu)


title: Captain Matsuzaki Bravely Fights at the Great Battle of Songhwan (Seikan no Gekissen, Matsuzaki Taii funyu no zu)


title: The First Division Advancing on Fengtienfu (Daiichigun Hotenfu shingeki no zu)

creator: Ogata Gekko


title: Advancing across the Ansong River at the Battle of Asan (Gazan gekisen Anjo no watashi shingeki no zu)


title: Kabayama, the Chief of Naval Staff, Attacking Enemy Ships from onboard Saikyomaru (Kabayama gunreibucho Saikyomaru o motte tekikan ni ataru)


title: Soldiers Fighting Furiously at Fenghuangcheng (Hoojo ni shoshi funto no zu)


title: Lieutenant Commander Sakakibara Fighting Bravely to the South of Ximucheng (Takubokujo nan ni oite Sakakibara shosa funsen no zu)


title: Long Live the Japanese Navy and Army! The Great Battle near Weihaiwei (Nihon kairiku banzai, Ikaiei fukin daigekisen no zu)


title: The Naval Battle and Capture of Haiyang Island (Kaiyoto senryo kaisen no zu)

medium: Color woodblock print; three sheets of oban tetraptych


title: Fierce Fighting at Anseong Crossing in Korea (Chosen Anjo watashi no gekisen no zu)

creator: Utagawa Kokunimasa


title: The Occupation of the Battery at Port Arthur (Ryojunko hodai nottori no zu)


title: The Army and Navy Attack and Capture Weihaiwei (Ikaiei rikukaigun kogeki senryo zu)


title: Major General Odera Fighting Fiercely at the Hundred Foot Cliff in Weihaiwei (Ikaiei hyakusekigaisho ni Odera shosho funsen su)


title: Telegram from Korea (Chosen denpo)


title: Our Officers Scouting the Enemy Camp in a Snow Storm (Oyuki o okashite waga shoko tanshin tekichi o teisatsu no zu)

creator: Taguchi Beisaku


title: Manchurian Horsemen Scouting from a Distance the Japanese Camp Near Sauhoku (Sokako fukin Nichijin enbo Manshu kihei iso shutsujin no zu)


title: Third Illustration of the Great Victory of Our Forces on the Yellow Sea (Kokai ni okeru wagagun no taisho, dai san zu)


title: Minamoto Yorimitsu in Mount Ashigara (Minomoto Yorimitsu Ashigarayama iri no zu)

creator: Ichieisai Yoshitsuya


title: The actors Nakamura Shikan IV as Fuwa Banzaemon, Nakamura Fukusuke IV as the Maid, and Kataoka Gado III as Nagoya Sanzaburo


title: Suetsumuhana: Mukan-no-tayu Atsumori, from the series "Japanese and Chinese Comparisons for the Chapters of Genji (Wakan nazorae Genji)"


title: Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as the Boatman Matsuemon, actually Higuchi Jiro Kanemitsu (Sendo Matsuemon, jissha Higuchi Jiro Kanemitsu)

creator: Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)


title: Bodhisattva Manjushri Holding a Blue Lotus (Utpala)

creator: Indonesia

date: 9th/10th century

medium: Andesite

country: Central Java

subjects:
Bronze
Central java
Religion
Bodhisattva
Buddhism
Southeast asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Shun the Great (Tai Shun), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban

credit_line: Gift of Mary Alice Metzger


title: Emperor Wen of Han (Kan no Buntei), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"


title: Meng Zong (Mo So), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"


title: Jung You (Chu Yu), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"


title: Min Ziqian (Bin Shiken), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"


title: Ding Lan (Tei Ran), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"


title: Wang Xiang (O Sho), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"


title: Jiang Shi (Kyo Shi), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"


title: Lao Laizi (Ro Raishi), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"


title: Yang Xiang (Yo Kyo), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"


title: Madame Tang (To Fujin), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"


title: Huang Xiang (Ko Kyo), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"


title: Dong Yong (To Ei), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"


title: Guo Ju (Kaku Kyo), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"


title: Wang Pu (O ho), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"


title: Tanzi (Enshi), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"


title: Zhu Shouchang (Shu Jusho), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"


title: Yu Qianlou (Yu Kinro), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"


title: Cai Shun (Sai Jun), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"


title: Zeng Shen (So Shin), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"


title: Lu Ji (Riku Seki), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"


title: Wu Meng (Go Mo), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"


title: Zhang Xiao and Zhang Li (Cho Ko, Cho Rei), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"


title: Huang Tingjian (Ko Teiken), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"


title: A Philosopher Shewing an Experiment on the Air Pump

creator: Valentine Green (English, 1739-1813)

medium: Mezzotint with traces of engraving in black on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Mezzotint
England
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund


title: Christ on the Cross

creator: Circle of Corrado Giaquinto

date: after 1730

medium: Black chalk with touches of white chalk, on brown laid paper

country: Italy

subjects:
Chalk
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Chalk stick
Black chalk
Inorganic material
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection


title: Bust of a Man

creator: Attributed to Jean Jacques Caffieri (French, 1725–1792)

medium: Plaster

subjects:
Bust/head
France
Portraits: male subject
Bust
Portrait
Man
Head
Sculpting
Plaster
Molding
French
Coating (material)
Sculpture

credit_line: Simeon B. Williams Fund


title: Portrait Bust of Comtesse d'Affry, née Lucie de Maillardoz (1816-1897)

creator: Jean Baptiste Carpeaux (French, 1827–1875)

subjects:
Bust/head
France
Portraits
Portraits: female subject
Woman
Bust
Head
Nineteenth century
Modeling (forming)
Plaster
Sculpting
French
Coating (material)
Sculpture

credit_line: Gift of The Antiquarian Society


title: Boar Incarnation of God Vishnu (Varaha) Lifting the Earth Goddess Bhudevi

creator: India

medium: Red sandstone

country: Rajasthan

subjects:
Sandstone
Rajasthan
Vishnu
Animal
Hindu
Religion
Gods (deities)
Varaha
Boar
South asian
Stone
Sculpture
Asian art


title: Emperor Charlemagne or Henry II

creator: German; Bavaria

medium: Wood

country: Bavaria

subjects:
Large scale
Bavaria
King
Armor
Crown
Church
Bearded man
Man
Nobility
Royal
Wood (plant material)
Carving
Renaissance
Plant material
Sculpture
German
Religious
Sculpture/wood
Wood
Organic material
Sculpting
Sculpture technique
Woodworking
Sixteenth century

credit_line: George F. Harding Collection


title: Pomander

creator: Spanish

medium: Silver

country: Spain

subjects:
Jewelry
Spain
European decorative arts
Decorative arts


title: Herr von Haesler of Hamburg

creator: Artist unknown (German, active 18th century)

medium: Wax

country: Germany

subjects:
Wax portrait
Germany
Portraits
Portraits: german subject
Blue (color)
Blue
Bust
Profile
Man
Portraits: male subject
Wax
Sculpture technique
Organic material
Relief
Sculpture
German
Forming
Modeling (forming)
Sculpting

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Theodore Thomas to The Antiquarian Society


title: Kodansu Small Chest

creator: Japanese

date: early 20th century

medium: Enamel on silver, lacquer, and engraved silver

subjects:
Lacquerware
Japan
Porcelain
Japanese (culture or style)
Asian art
Decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barancik


title: Cat

creator: Shibata Zeshin (Japanese, 1807-1891)

date: Unknown

medium: Hanging scroll; lacquer on paper


title: Mountain and Landscape

date: Meiji period (1868–1912)

medium: Album leaf, inks and color on paper.

subjects:
Album leaf
Japan
Landscapes
Paper (fiber product)
Album/sketchbook
Asian art
Painting


title: Bird and Cattails

medium: Album leaf, inks and color on paper

subjects:
Album leaf
Japan
Birds
Paper (fiber product)
Album/sketchbook
Asian art
Painting


title: Waterfall

date: Meiji period 1868–1912

medium: Album leaf; inks and color on paper.

subjects:
Album leaf
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Album/sketchbook
Asian art
Painting


title: Water Scene with Mountain

date: Meiji Period (1868–1912)

medium: Album leaf; ink and colors on paper


title: Youth with Fish Net

subjects:
Fish
Album leaf
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Album/sketchbook
Asian art
Painting


title: Calligraphy


title: Flower Blossom

date: Miji period (1868–1912)

subjects:
Album leaf
Japan
Flowers
Paper (fiber product)
Album/sketchbook
Asian art
Painting


title: Landscape

date: Meiji period ( 1868–1912)


title: Mushrooms

subjects:
Album leaf
Japan
Mushrooms & fungi
Paper (fiber product)
Album/sketchbook
Asian art
Painting


title: Boats near Hillside


title: Rabbit

date: Meiji period 91868–1912)


title: Cage


title: Casting a Mantra on the Waves at Kakuta on His Exile to Sado Island (Sashu rukei Kakuta nami daimoku), from the series "Concise Illustrated Biography of the Great Priest [Nichiren] (Koso go ichidai ryakuzu)"

creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi

medium: Color woodblock print; oban

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Michener


title: Tsukuda Island (Tsukudajima), from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)"


title: Sunrise on New Year's Day at Susaki (Susaki hatsu hinode no zu), from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)"


title: Surugadai, from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto Meisho)"


title: Omori, from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)"


title: Meng Zong (Moso), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety as a Mirror for Children (Nijushiko doji kagami)"


title: Kasumigaseki, from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)"


title: Nihonbashi, Shinagawa, Kawasaki, and Kanagawa, from the series "Famous Places on the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido, Four Stations (Tokaido gojusan eki yonshuku meisho)"


title: Oe no Chisato, from the series "One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Hyakunin isshu no uchi)"


title: Hara, Yoshiwara, and Kanbara, from the series "Famous Places on the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido, Three Stations (Tokaido gojusan eki sanshuku meisho)"


title: Shono, Kameyama, Seki, Sakanoshita, and Tsuchiyama, from the series "Famous Places on the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido, Five Stations (Tokaido gojusan eki goshuku meisho)"


title: Akasaka, Fujikawa, Okazaki, Chiryu, and Narumi, from the series "Famous Places on the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido, Five Stations (Tokaido gojusan eki goshuku meisho)"


title: Nissaka, Kakegawa, Fukuroi, Mitsuke, and Hamamatsu, from the series "Famous Places on the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido, Five Stations (Tokaido gojusan eki goshuku meisho)"


title: Miya, Kuwana, Yokkaichi, and Ishiyakushi, from the series "Famous Places on the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido, Four Stations (Tokaido gojusan eki yonshuku meisho)"


title: Snake (Mi): Nitan Shiro, from the series "Heroes for the Twelve Animals of the Zodiac (Buyu mitate junishi)"

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Reptiles & amphibians
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Snow on Benten Hill at Kinryuzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinryuzan Bentenyama setchu no zu)

subjects:
Architecture
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Minakuchi, Ishibe, Kusatsu, Otsu, and Kyoto, from the series "Famous Places on the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido, Five Stations (Tokaido gojusan eki goshuku meisho)"


title: Yamanobe no Akahito, from the series "One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Hyakunin isshu no uchi)"


title: Ukiyo gafu (Book of Keisai's Popular Pictures), one vol. of 10

creator: Keisai Eisen

medium: Book; woodblock printed

subjects:
Book
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Woodblock print
Ink

credit_line: Gift of Joan R. Whittaker


title: Keisai soga (Sketches of Keisai), one vol. of 5

creator: Kitao Masayoshi (Kuwagata Keisai)

date: 19th century


title: Length of Woven Silk

creator: Italy, possibly Milan

medium: Silk, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Crown
Palmette
Vine
Weaving
Silk
Compound weaving
Plain weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson


title: Elderly Tea Master

creator: Sato Gyodai (Japanese, late 18th to mid-19th century)

medium: Color woodblock print; surimono

subjects:
Print
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Asian art

credit_line: Purchased from Robert G. Sawers London. Nathalie Gookin Fund in memory of Frederick Gookin


title: A bag

subjects:
Print
Japan
Asian art

credit_line: Nathalie Gookin Fund in memory of Frederick Gookin


title: A temple hall

subjects:
Architecture
Print
Japan
Asian art


title: View of the encircling veranda of the Kitano Tenjin Shrine

credit_line: Purchase, Nathalie Gookin Fund in memory of Frederick Gookin


title: Bundled plum blossom branches and pack-horse saddle

creator: Yoshimi Rogetsu

subjects:
Print
Japan
Flowers
Asian art


title: Stitched fukusa and needle and thread


title: Longevity symbols

creator: Tanaka Shutei (Japanese, 1810-1858)


title: View of the Takatsu Shrine


title: Deer in Autumn Grasses under the Full Moon

creator: Baien (Japanese, active 19th century)

subjects:
Print
Japan
Grasses & sedges
Asian art


title: Ocarina (Whistle) with Scrolling Flower Heads, Lotus Leaves, and Overlapping Petals

creator: China

date: Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware with underglaze molded decoration

subjects:
Ornament & design
Decorative arts
China
Flowers
Earthenware
Chinese (culture or style)

credit_line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II, Possibly as Princess Ayaori in the Play Ima o Sakari Suehiro Genji (The Genji Clan Now at Its Zenith), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1768

creator: Ippitsusai Buncho

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Donnelley


title: Beauty and Morning Glories

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信 (Japanese, 1725 (?)-1770)

date: Mid-18th century

medium: Color woodblock print; hashira-e


title: The actor Onoe Kikugoro I as Watanabe no Tsuna

creator: Torii Kiyomitsu I

date: second half of 18th century

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e


title: Chasing Fireflies

medium: Color woodblock print; hashira-e, benizuri-e


title: The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Karigane Bunshichi, Bando Mitsugoro I as An no Heibei, Ichikawa Danjuro V as Gokuin Sen'emon, Nakamura Sukegoro II as Kaminari Shokuro, and Sakata Hangoro II as Hotei Ichiemon (right to left), in "Gonin Otoko" (Five Chivalrous Commoners), an Interlude in Part Two of the Play Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga (A Soga Drama on the First Festival Day in the Pleasure District), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Second Month, 1780

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; pentaptych


title: Young Couple Enjoying the Cool of Evening

creator: Shiba Kokan (Suzuki Harushige)

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Umeo-maru in the Play Ayatsuri Kabuki Ogi, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Seventh Month, 1768

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of triptych


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Kakogawa Honzo in Komuso Attire in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Seventh Month, 1783


title: Courtesan Looks Down at Youth Dressed as Mendicant Monk

creator: Isoda Koryusai

date: c. early 1770s


title: Waitress at the Owariya Teahouse


title: Geisha Applying Makeup

creator: Torii Kiyonaga


title: Young Woman Wearing a Hat


title: Courtesans of the Chojiya and their attendants playing kemari

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代 歌川 豊国

medium: Color woodblock print; oban triptych


title: Party by a winding stream

creator: Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820)

medium: Color woodblock print; two left sheets of oban triptych


title: Listening to the cuckoo's cry

creator: Utagawa Toyohiro

medium: Color woodblock print; habahiro hashira-e


title: Distant View of Snow on the Sumida River in Edo

creator: Keisai Eisen


title: The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Moshio, Wife of Ito Sukekiyo, in the Play Izu-goyomi Shibai no Ganjitsu, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1772


title: Women Visiting Mimeguri Shrine

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych


title: Ono no Komachi, from the series A Collection of Fashionable Beauties of Japan (Wakoku bijin ryaku shu)


title: Courtesan and Young Man Under Umbrella

creator: Kitao Masanobu (Santo Kyoden)


title: Yoshitsune's Encouter with Princess Joruri, from "The Tale of Joruri in Twelve Episodes (Joruri Junidan Zoshi)"

creator: Sugimura Jihei

medium: Woodblock print; o-oban, sumizuri-e

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art
Woodblock


title: Ogino Isaburo, from "A Triptych of Young Kabuki Actors: Kyoto, Center (Iroko sanpukutsui: Kyo, naka)"

creator: Okumura Masanobu

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; center sheet of hosoban triptych, urushi-e


title: Honbo, from the series "Scenes of Flower-viewing at Ueno (Ueno hanami no tei)"

creator: Hishikawa Moronobu

medium: Woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Flowers
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art
Woodblock


title: Actor Ichikawa Danjuro II as Sukeroku

creator: Okumura Masanobu  奥村 政信

medium: Color woodblock print; beni-e

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Print
Asian art


title: Sanjo Kantaro, from "A Triptych of Young Kabuki Actors: Edo, Right (Iroko sanpukutsui: Edo, migi)"

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; right sheet of hosoban triptych, urushi-e


title: Visiting the Shrine of Enmei Jizo, from the series "Eight Precincts of Kinryuzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinruzan hakkei)"


title: Geisha and Attendant on a Rainy Night

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: Obvious Love (Arawaruru koi), from the series "Anthology of Poems: The Love Section (Kasen koi no bu)"


title: The Tea Stall - Kagiya Osen

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信


title: Mother-in-Law Teasing the Bride, from the series "A Collection of Humorous Poems (Haifu yanagidaru)"


title: Yaoya Oshichi and Kosho Kichisaburo (Yaoya Oshichi and Kosho Kichisaburo)


title: Beauty Looking Down at a Cat while Fixing a Mosquito Net


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Princess Sakura (Sakura Hime) in the Play Wada Sakamori Eiga Kagami, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1773

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych (?)


title: Young Man and Boy Returning from Fishing

medium: Color woodblock print; hashira-e


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III in an Unidentified Role

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as the Spirit of Joro-gumo (Harlot Spider) Disguised as the Maiko Tsumagiku (?), in the Play Shitenno Tonoi no Kisewata (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1781 (?)

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Spiders & arachnids
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Three Women at the Base of a Sacred Pine Tree

creator: Katsukawa Shuncho

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Trees
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Courtesan in Front of New Year's Decoration of Pine and Bamboo


title: Cherry Blossoms in Spring, from the series "Choicest Odes upon Flowers of the Four Seasons (Shuku awase, shiki no hana)"

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Flowers
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: The Actor Asao Tamejuro I as Drunken Gotobei in the Play Yoshitsune Koshigoe Jo, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1790

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Playing Temari


title: The parlor of a brothel in the pleasure quarters


title: The Chrysanthemum Festival in the Ninth Month, from an untitled pentaptych of the five festivals

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban pentaptych


title: Women on a boat at New Year imitating the Seven Gods of Good Fortune


title: The actor Segawa Senjo as Shirotae


title: A Winding Stream Party (Kyokusui no en)

date: Edo period

medium: Color woodblock print; nishiki-e


title: Monkey Bridge

creator: Katsushika Taito II

medium: Color woodblock print; section of harimaze sheet


title: The Actor Yamashita Mangiku I as Lady Yuya (Yuya Gozen) (?) in the Play Heike Hyobanki (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1789 (?)

creator: Katsukawa Shunsen


title: Wall Pocket

creator: Wedgwood Manufactory

medium: Earthenware with lustre decoration

country: Staffordshire

subjects:
Ceramic
Staffordshire
Earthenware
Inorganic material
European decorative arts
Lustreware (moonlight luster)

credit_line: Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection


title: A woman and girl amusing a baby

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信 (Japanese, 1725 (?)-1770)

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Mother
Children
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: A sheet from a shunga album

creator: Japanese

medium: Woodblock print; sumizuri-e

subjects: Japan Print

credit_line: Gift of Robert G. Sawers, London, England


title: Women on a Fishing Boat

creator: Chokosai Eisho

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban triptych (right sheet: 1997.729a, center sheet: 1997.729b)

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Edo (japanese period)
Japanism
East asian
Asian
Print
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Weissman


title: Beauty Holding a Fan in Chinese Style

creator: Artist Unknown

date: 18th century

medium: Color woodblock print; surimono

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Edo (japanese period)
Japanism
East asian
Asian
Print
Asian art


title: Ebisu and Daikokuten tasting Sake

creator: Eishosai Choki

medium: Color woodblock print, ink and colors on paper

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Edo (japanese period)
Paper (fiber product)
Japanism
East asian
Asian
Print
Asian art


title: Sakurahime and Kiyoharu (Sakurahime Kiyoharu)

medium: Woodblock print, ink and colors on paper


title: The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II (?)

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章

date: late 18th century


title: Shichiri Beach at Enoshima (Enoshima Shichirigahama)

creator: Shotei Hokuju


title: The First Evening in the Mountains (Yamabiraki no yûhi)

date: Late 18th century


title: Child's nightmare of ghosts


title: Act Five (Godanme), from the series "The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Kanadehon Chushingura)"

creator: Keisai Eisen


title: Lovers Parting in the Morning, from the series "Elegant Five-needled Pine (Furyu goyo no matsu)"


title: Actor Kataoka Nizaemon VIII as Hida no kami Masakiyo

creator: Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

date: Edo period (1603–1867)

medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, creped


title: A Dancer

creator: Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川 祐信

date: Late 17th to 18th century

medium: Color woodblock print


title: The Waitress Osen of the Kagiya teahouse Carrying a Cup of Tea


title: Drunken Goblins (Shôjô)

creator: Okumura Masanobu

medium: Woodblock print (beni-e), ink and colors on paper


title: Drinking Sake at a Housewarming Party (Takubiraki shuen no zu)

creator: Toyohara Kunichika

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban diptych or triptych


title: Outdoor Amusements at the Kankanro Teahouse in Yoshiwara

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban triptych


title: A Spring Night (Yayoi no yube)


title: Inue Shinbyoe Masashi, from the series "Eight Hundred Heroes of the Japanese Water Margin (Honcho Suikoden goyu happyakunin no hitori)"

creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: Image of a Japanese Woman (Fujo Yamato sugata)

medium: Color woodblock print; vertical oban diptych


title: Actor Bando Shuka I as Jujibei's Wife Ohaya (Jujibei nyobo Ohaya)


title: The Governor Hida no Kami Masakiyo Kataoka Nizaemon

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni III

medium: Color oodblock print, ink and colors on paper


title: The Eight Views at Lake Biwa in the Evening (Omi Hakkei Moku)

creator: Utagawa Yoshikazu

date: Mid 19th century

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych (center: 1997.771b, left: 1997.771c)


title: View of Sagano (Sagano fukei), from the series "A Modern Genji Picture Contest (Furyu Genji e-awase)"

medium: Color woodblock print; oban triptych


title: The Filial Son of Kamakura from the Collection of Stone and Sand (Kamakura koshi, Shasekishu), from the series "Twenty-four Japanese Paragons of Filial Piety for the Honcho Circle (Honchoren Honcho nijushiko)"

creator: Yashima Gakutei

medium: Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono

credit_line: Gift of Patricia Hyland


title: The Filial Child from Shinano Province from the Collection of Stone and Sand (Shinano koji, Shasekishu), from the series "Twenty-four Japanese Paragons of Filial Piety for the Honcho Circle (Honchoren Honcho nijushiko)"


title: Satsuma no Fukuyorime from the Veritable Records of Emperor Montoku (Satsuma no Fukuyorime, Montoku jitsuroku), from "Twenty-four Japanese Paragons of Filial Piety for the Honcho Circle (Honchoren Honcho nijushiko)"


title: The Filial Son of Yoro from the Ten Moral Lessons (Yoro koshi, Jikkinsho), from the series "Twenty-four Japanese Paragons of Filial Piety for the Honcho Circle (Honchoren Honcho nijushiko)"


title: Nibu Hiroyoshi from the Veritable Records of Three Reigns (Nibu Hiroyoshi, Sandai jitsuroku), from the series "Twenty-four Japanese Paragons of Filial Piety for the Honcho Circle (Honchoren Honcho nijushiko)"


title: Hojo Tokiyori, from the series "Twenty-four Generals for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushika nijushisho)"


title: Paper: Fujiwara no Sadaie (Kami: Teika), from the series "The Four Friends of the Writing Table for the Ichiyo Circle (Ichiyoren bunbo shiyu)"


title: Tamomo no Mae, with Poem by Fumiya Asayasu, from the series "Ogura Versions of the One Hundred Poets (Ogura nazorae Hyakunin isshu)"

subjects:
Print
Japan
Block printing
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Asian art


title: Picture Books and Coin Purse

creator: Utagawa (Ichiosai) Kunimitsu I


title: The Wife of Izumi no Saburo Tadahira, from the series Lives of Wise and Heroic Women (Kenjo reppu den)

date: about 1842

medium: Color woodblock print; nishiki-e

subjects:
Print
Japan
Asian art


title: Kinugawa Yoemon, with Poem by Harumichi no Tsuraki, from the series "Ogura Versions of the One Hundred Poets (Ogura nazorae Hyakunin isshu)"


title: View of Yokohama (Yokohama fukei), from the series "Famous Places along the Tokaido (Tokaido meisho no uchi)"

creator: Utagawa Sadahide


title: Two states of same print showing a woman apparently a seamstress who stands isolated on the page with a landscape fan behind her across top of print. From the Series: Tôto Meisho Kurabe

creator: Utagawa Yoshifuji

subjects:
Print
Japan
Landscapes
Asian art


title: The Transmission Scene (Denjuba), from the series "Sugawara's Secrets (Sugawara denju)"


title: The Domyoji Scene (Domyoji no dan), from the series "Sugawara's Secrets (Sugawara denju)"


title: The Carriage-pulling Scene (Kurumabiki no dan), from the series "Sugawara's Secrets (Sugawara denju)"


title: The Opening Scene (Daijo), from the series "Sugawara's Secrets (Sugawara denju)"


title: Actors Kataoka Gado II as Florist (Hanaya) Tokubei (R) and Nakamura Daikichi III as Tokubei's Wife (Tsuma) Ofusa (L)


title: The Beach at Takanawa (Takanawa kaigan), from the series "Thirty-six Views of the Eastern Capital (Toto sanjurokkei)"

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu)


title: The Village School Scene (Terakoya), from the series "Sugawara's Secrets (Sugawara denju)"


title: The actor Iwai Hanshiro as a courtesan

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代 歌川 豊国

date: Unknown


title: The actor Morita Kan'ya, from the series "Pictures and Calligraphy of Kabuki Actors-Poets (Haika shoga kyodai)"


title: Komatsu Shigemori from the Tales of Heike (Komatsu Shigemori, Heike monogatari), from the series "Twenty-four Japanese Paragons of Filial Piety for the Honcho Circle (Honchoren Honcho nijushiko)"


title: The Jewel River of Plovers (Chidori Tamagawa), from the series "Fashionable Six Jewel Rivers (Furyu Mu Tamagawa)"

creator: Kikukawa Eizan


title: Roben Waterfall at Mount Oyama (Oyama Roben no taki)

medium: Color woodblock prints; oban triptych

credit_line: Gift of Andrew Headland and Mrs. William Sandberg in memory of Mrs. Clara Headland


title: Snow View (Yuki no nagame), from the series Fashionable Genji (Furyu Genji)

date: about 1853

credit_line: Mr. Andrew Headland Jr.; Mrs. William Sandberg, Gift in memory of Mrs. Clara C. Headland.


title: Daimyo's Processions Passing along the Tokaido

credit_line: Mr. Andrew Headland Jr., Mrs. William Sandberg, Gift in memory of Mrs. Clara C. Headland.


title: Tripod Jar

creator: China

date: Tang dynasty (618–906)

medium: Stoneware with underglaze molded decoration and green glaze

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Asian art
Vessel


title: Jar

date: Tang Dynasty (618–906)

medium: Earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glazes

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Asian art
Vessel

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Mayer, Winnetka.


title: Virgin of the Immaculate Conception

creator: Antonio Maragliano (Italian, 1664–1741)

medium: Wood

subjects:
Large scale
Italy
Virgin mary
Cherub
Christian subject
Christianity
Devotion
Religion
Religious
Religious figure
Star
Woman
Wood (plant material)
Sculpting
Plant material
Sculpture
Figure
Italian
Gesso
Organic material
Paint
Carving
Painting
Painting (coating)
Painting technique
Sculpture technique
Woodworking

credit_line: Decorative Arts Purchase Fund


title: Madonna del Parto

creator: Spanish

medium: Wood with polychromy and gilding

subjects:
Large scale
Spain
Religious figure
Bible
Book
Christian subject
Christianity
Jewelry
Religion
Tassel
Virgin mary
Woman
Wood (plant material)
Carving
Plant material
Sculpture
Paint
Religious
Spanish
Gilding
Organic material
Painting
Painting (coating)
Polychromy
Sculpting
Sculpture technique

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard E. Danielson and Mrs. Chauncey McCormick


title: Peonies, Magnolia, and Dandelions

creator: School of Tawaraya Sôtatsu

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and colors on paper

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: Frederick W. Gookin Collection


title: Portrait of Luigi Edouardo Rossi, Count Pellegrino

creator: Follower of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, 1780–1867)

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects:
Oil on canva
France
Portraits
Portraits: male subject
Man
Portraits: italian subject
Robe
Nineteenth century
Oil paint (paint)
Oil painting
French
Oil painting (visual works)
Paint
Canva
Painting
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
European painting

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge in memory of her Grandfather, Franklin F. Spencer


title: Two Monks in a Landscape

creator: Italian or Spanish

subjects:
Painting
Italy
Landscapes
Hill
House
Man
Men
Travel
Tree
Cloud
Sky
Monk
Oil paint (paint)
Oil painting
Italian
Oil on canva
Paint
Spanish
Canva
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
European painting

credit_line: Wentworth Greene Field Memorial Fund


title: Head of a Woman

creator: Artist unknown (possibly French, active 19th century)

subjects:
Oil on canva
France
Study
Portraits: female subject
Woman
Portrait
Oil paint (paint)
Painting
French
Oil painting (visual works)
Paint
Canva
Oil painting
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
European painting

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Sterling Morton


title: Prancing Horse

creator: Follower of Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault (French, 1791–1824)

subjects:
Oil on canva
France
Horse
Field
Tree
Landscape
Animal
Oil paint (paint)
Oil painting
Nineteenth century
French
Oil painting (visual works)
Paint
Canva
Painting
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
European painting

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection


title: Praying Virgin

creator: Roman

subjects:
Oil on canva
Italy
Women
Religious
Religion
Prayer
Oil paint (paint)
Oil painting
Italian
Oil painting (visual works)
Paint
Canva
Painting
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
European painting

credit_line: Gift of Miss Felicia Ryan and Mr. William Ryan in memory of Mrs. Bertha Gill


title: Old Age

creator: Jozef Israëls (Dutch, 1824–1911)

country: Holland

subjects:
Oil on canva
Holland
Elderly
Man
Chair
Oil paint (paint)
Oil painting
Nineteenth century
Dutch
Oil painting (visual works)
Paint
Canva
Painting
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
European painting

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Neilson


title: Cycle of Old and New Testament Images, Possibly Prefatory Cycle for a Psalter

creator: Northern France or Flanders

medium: Manuscript with 58 full-page miniatures on parchment, with gothica textualis inscriptions in red (probably post-production addition) and black in French and Latin (only on ff. 9v-10r), ruled in graphite, with 2 (modern) fly leaves upper and lower cover, and with trimmed edges and modern cardboard binding

country: Northern France

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Northern france
Medieval
Manuscript
Book
Print and drawing

credit_line: Anonymous gift


title: Plum blossoms and poet, from an untitled hexaptych depicting a pair of folding screens

creator: Ryuryukyo Shinsai

medium: Color woodblock print; sheet from shikishiban hexaptych, surimono

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Flowers
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Henderson Collection


title: Palace interior and beach, from an untitled hexaptych depicting a pair of folding screens

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Minamoto no Yoshiie on horseback and a bird on a branch, from an untitled hexaptych depicting a pair of folding screens

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Birds
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Seiobo (Queen Mother of the West) and tortoise, from an untitled hexaptych depicting a pair of folding screens

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Mother
Parent
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Lacscape and woman from Ohara, from an untitled hexaptych depicting a pair of folding screens

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of shikishiban hexaptych, surimono


title: Kanzan and Jittoku

creator: Ito Jakuchu

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Henderson


title: Old priest and tea kettle.

creator: Urakami (Uragami) Gyokudo

date: no date

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Painting
Asian art


title: Rooster on tile

date: about 1793

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper


title: Crow on pine branch.

creator: Kawanabe Kyosai

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Painting
Asian art
Print


title: Two Huts in Snow

creator: Matsumura Keibun


title: Wisteria Maiden

creator: Japanese

medium: Hanging scroll; Ink and colors on paper


title: Portrait of a Dutchman with a Servant

creator: Anonymous

date: Edo period, 18th century

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Portraits
Paper (fiber product)
Painting
Asian art


title: An Actor on Stage

creator: Artist unknown

date: Edo period, 1720–1730

medium: Album sheet mounted as hanging scroll. Ink and colors on paper

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Ink
Painting
Asian art


title: Samurai

creator: Iwasa Matabei

date: 17th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper.


title: Beauty Replacing Her Hairpin

creator: Chôbunsai Eishi

date: Edo period, 1798

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Silk (textile)
Japanese (culture or style)
Ink
Painting
Asian art


title: Courtesan and two attendants

creator: Kawamata Tsunemasa,

date: about 1723


title: Portrait of Chunagon Asatada

date: Edo period (1610–1868); about 1600


title: Courtesan and Cherry Branch

creator: Toriyama Sekien

medium: Hanging scroll; ink, colors, and gold on silk

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Silk (textile)
Japanese (culture or style)
Gold leaf
Ink
Painting
Asian art


title: Courtesan and Two Attendants

creator: Torii Kiyonobu I

date: About 1705

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and colors on silk


title: Youth Playing Football

creator: Tosa Mitsusuke

date: about 1675

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Painting
Asian art


title: Landscape

creator: Attributed to Oguri Sotan

date: 16th century

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Landscapes
Paper (fiber product)
Painting
Asian art


title: The Sumo Wrestler Kurogumo Otozô with the Teahouse Waitress Naniwa Okita

creator: Katsukawa Shun’ei

date: Early 1790s

medium: Early 1790s

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Michener


title: Hotoke Gozen Dancing before Taira no Kiyomori

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: Courtesan Parading Beneath Cherry Tree

medium: Color woodblock print; hashira-e

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Trees
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Courtesan Writing a Letter as Two Men Watch through a Window Lattice


title: Shirabyoshi Dancer Standing in Asazuma Boat


title: The Jewel River of Bush Clovers (Hagi no Tamagawa), from the series "Six Jewel Rivers in Popular Customs (Fuzoku Mu Tamagawa)"


title: Young Man Riding a Giant Tortoise (parody of Urashima Taro)


title: Woman with Blue Umbrella Carrying Black Box

creator: Torii Kiyomitsu

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Print
Asian art


title: The Actors Segawa Kikunojo I as Ochiyo and Matsushima Kichisaburo as Ochiyo's spirit in the play "Higashiyama Gojitsu Yaoya Hanbei," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eighth month, 1744

creator: Torii Kiyomasu II

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e


title: Yushima from the series Scenes of Ten Teahouses (Chamise jikkei)

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban, nishiki-e


title: Woman Holding Basket with Tabacco Pipe


title: Courtesan Washing her Hands


title: The Sixth Month (Kazemachizuki), from the series "Fashionable Monthly Visits to Sacred Places in the Four Seasons (Furyu shiki no tsuki mode)"


title: Finely-Dressed Woman Crossing Nihonbashi Bridge


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

medium: Color woodblock print; hashira-e, right sheet of diptych


title: Dong Yong (Toei), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety as a Mirror for Children (Nijushiko doji kagami)"

creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: Crossing a River on a Moonlit Night

creator: Isoda Koryusai


title: The Courtesan Segawa of Matsubaya Watching Her Attendants Play Cat's Cradle


title: Dashun (Taishun), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety as a Mirror for Children (Nijushiko doji kagami)"


title: Jurojin with cranes, a stag, and a tortoise

creator: Okumura Masanobu

date: 18th century

medium: Woodblock print; hosoban, sumizuri-e

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art
Woodblock


title: The actor Ichikawa Ebizo as Usui Arataro Sadamitsu in the Shibaraku scene of the play "Seiwa Nidai Oyose Genji," performed at the Miyako Theater in the eleventh month, 1796

creator: Utagawa Kunimasa


title: The Big Snowman

creator: Kitao Shigemasa

medium: Color woodblock print; mizu-e hosoban


title: The Bride Traveling in the Rain, from the series "The Foxes' Wedding"

creator: Tachibana Minko

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban yoko-e


title: The Treasure Ship

medium: Color woodblock print; vertical oban diptych

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Ships & the sea
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Ono no Tofu Watching a Leaping Frog

date: early 1760s

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, mizu-e

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Reptiles & amphibians
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: The Actor Nakamura Riko I as Kiyotaki in the Play Oakinai Hiru ga Kojima, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1784

creator: Katsukawa Shunko I

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of diptych


title: Yokihi (Chinese: Yang Guifei) with attendant

creator: Nishimura Shigenaga


title: The Jewel River of Plovers (Chidori no Tamagawa), from an untitled series of Six Jewel Rivers


title: The Courtesans Shizuka and Akashi of the Tamaya

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿


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

creator: Ishikawa Toyonobu

medium: Color woodblock print; oban, benizuri-e


title: Carp

creator: Katsushika Taito II

medium: Color woodblock print; section of harimaze sheet


title: Shoki the Demon Queller

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Tonase (?) in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater (?) in the Eighth Month, 1787 (?)

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: The Actor Otani Hiroemon III as Shinoda Jirodayu in the Play Keisei Momiji no Uchikake, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Seventh Month, 1772

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章


title: The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Hiranoya Tokubei (?) in the Play Wada Sakamori Eiga Kagami (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Third Month, 1773 (?)

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych (?)


title: Parody of a scene from "The Pillow Book"

medium: Color woodblock print; horizontal o-tanzaku, surimono


title: The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as a Male Fox Disguised as the Sake Seller Iseya (left) and Nakamura Tomijuro I as a Female Fox Disguised as the Beancake Peddler Hyugaya, in the Dance Sequence "Myoto-zake Kawaranu Nakanaka" (Everlasting Harmony of the Marital Cup), from the Second Part of the Play Chigo Torii Kitsune (Heavenly Child - The Fox Leaps Through the Shrine Gate), Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777

medium: Color woodblock print; aiban


title: Komurasaki of the Miuraya and Shirai Gompachi (Miuraya Komurasaki, Shirai Gompachi)

medium: Color woodblock print; hashira-e


title: Peony Basket

creator: Japan

date: 19th century

medium: Bamboo

subjects:
Basketry
Japan
Bamboo
Japanese (culture or style)
Decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Pamela Crutchfield in memory of Myron R. Szold


title: Peony Basket

creator: Wada Rinshi


title: Peony Ikebana Basket

creator: Artist unknown

date: Date unknown

credit_line:
Gift of Pamela Crutchfield in memory of Myron R. Szold

Flower arrangement by Shozo Sato, University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign


title: Rectangular Flower Basket

subjects:
Basketry
Japan
Flowers
Bamboo
Japanese (culture or style)
Decorative arts


title: Portrait of a Man

creator: Benjamin West (American, active England, 1738-1820)

medium: Oil on canvas

country: England

subjects:
Oil on canva
England
Portraits
Portraits: male subject
Man
Table
Letter (correspondence)
Curtain
Red (color)
Chair
Landscape
Tree
Sky
Nature
Cloud
Tassel
Oil painting
Oil paint (paint)
Painting technique
Painting (image making)
Painting
Paint
Canva
Oil painting (visual works)
British
European painting

credit_line: Gift of the Family of Byron L. Smith


title: At the Justice of the Peace

creator: Pieter Verhaert (Belgian, 1852–1908)

country: Belgium

subjects:
Painting
Belgium
Courthouse
Writing
Window
Men
Furniture
Desk
Chair
Book
Interior
Office
Official
Nineteenth century
Oil painting
Oil paint (paint)
Painting technique
Painting (image making)
Paint
Canva
Oil painting (visual works)
Oil on canva
European painting

credit_line: J. C. Black Collection


title: The Fallen Caryatid Carrying Her Stone

creator: Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)

date: Modeled c. 1881–82, cast 1902–24

medium: Bronze

subjects:
Statuette
France
Woman
Nude
Stone
Greece
Bronze
Sculpture technique
Nineteenth century
Copper alloy
Nonferrous metal
Metal
Inorganic material
Sculpture
Figure
French
Casting (process)
Firing (heating)

credit_line: Gift of Robert Allerton


title: Wallpaper Panel with Birds and Flowering Trees

creator: China, for the European market

date: Late 18th/early 19th century

medium: Hand-painted paper

subjects:
Wallpaper
China
Birds
Trees
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
European decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. E. Marshall Field


title: Saint John the Baptist Entering the Wilderness

creator: Giovanni di Paolo (Italian, 1398–1482)

medium: Tempera on panel

subjects:
Painting
Italy
Saint john the baptist
Biblical
Christian subject
Christianity
Devotion
Religious
Religious figure
Religious scene
Saint
Travel
Field
Mountain
Nature
Wilderness
Religion
Century of progress
World' fair
Chicago world' fair
Tempera
Panel painting
Renaissance
Italian
Paint
Organic material
Panel (wood)
Plant material
Wood (plant material)
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
European painting

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection


title: Box and Cover

creator: Germany

date: 18th to 19th century

medium: Wood and polychrome enamel

subjects:
Wood
Germany
Wood (plant material)
European decorative arts
Decorative arts


title: Epergne

creator: Eliza Godfrey

medium: Silver

country: London

subjects:
Silver
London
Nonferrous metal
Metal
Inorganic material
Metalwork
European decorative arts
Women artist
Women artist before 1800

credit_line: Gift of I. D. Berg in memory of Alice Kimpton Berg


title: Pavilion of Eight Poems 八詠樓詩畫

creator: Chen Chun 陳淳 (Chinese, 1483-1544)

date: Ming dynasty (1368–1644), dated 1538

medium: Handscroll; ink on paper

subjects:
Handscroll
China
Paper (fiber product)
Chinese (culture or style)
Ink
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment Fund


title: Jingoji Sutra and Wrapper

date: Late 12th century

medium: Gold and silver pigments on indigo-dyed paper, bamboo, silk, mica, and gilt bronze.

subjects:
Painting
Japan
Buddhism
Religion
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Gold

credit_line: Purchased with Funds Provided by the Weston Foundation


title: Panels from the High Altar of the Charterhouse of Saint-Honoré, Thuison-les-Abbeville: The Last Supper

creator: French; Picardy

medium: Oil on panel

subjects:
Oil on panel
France
Century of progress
French
Architecture
Architechture
Jug
Basket
Dog
Town
Chair
Table
Figure
Men
Food
Saint
Interior
Christianity
Christian subject
Jesus
Religious figure
Religious scene
Religious
Religion
Biblical
Altar
World' fair
Chicago world' fair
Oil paint (paint)
Panel painting
Oil painting (visual works)
Paint
Organic material
Panel (wood)
Plant material
Wood (plant material)
Oil painting
Painting
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
European painting


title: Panels from the High Altar of the Charterhouse of Saint-Honoré, Thuison-les-Abbeville: Pentecost

subjects:
Oil on panel
France
Christian subject
Architecture
Architechture
Biblical
Religious figure
Religious scene
Religious
Religion
Christianity
Virgin mary
Men
Bird
Dove
Saint
Century of progress
World' fair
Chicago world' fair
Oil painting
Oil paint (paint)
Sixteenth century
Panel painting
Painting technique
Painting (image making)
Painting
Wood (plant material)
Plant material
Panel (wood)
Paint
Organic material
Oil painting (visual works)
French
European painting


title: Chancellerie

creator: Woven at an unknown workshop at the Manufacture Royale des Gobelins

medium: Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave

subjects:
Weaving - tapestry
France
Monogram
Coat of arms
Royalty
Cartouche
Fleur de lis
King
Ribbon
Wool (textile)
Tapestry weaving
Textile
Silk (fiber)
Slit tapestry weaving

credit_line: Gift of Honoré Palmer


title: Chalice Cover

creator: Italy

medium: Linen, square netting; embroidered with silk in cloth, darning and interlocking lace stitches; glass beads

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Embroidering
Linen (material)
Needlework (visual works)
Glass bead
Silk (textile)
Ritual object

credit_line: Gift of the Antiquarian Society


title: Cushion Cover

creator: England

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with wool and silk in flame stitch

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Charles C. Cunningham


title: Chasuble Back

medium: Silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound by main warp in weft-float faced 1:4 'S' twill interlacings and with two-color supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Weaving - velvet
Liturgical
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment