A Mounted Officer
A Mounted Officer is a work by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille, dated 1877, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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A Mounted Officer is a work by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille, dated 1877, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
E-17: French Bedroom, Late 16th Century is a work by Designed by Narcissa Niblack Thorne, dated c. 1937, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Shawl Border Fragment is a work by India, dated 1815/20, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Butterfly is a work by James McNeill Whistler, dated c. 1890, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Art Institute has the largest group of Monet’s "Stacks of Wheat" paintings in the world. The artist worked on the canvases in the field outside his farmhouse, painting simultaneously at several easels; he later refined them in the studio. An exhibition of these works in 1891 marked a breakthrough in Monet’s career, as well as in the history of French art.
In this English reception room of the Jacobean Period (1625–55), one of the 68 miniature rooms conceived by Narcissa Niblack Thorne, the major influences are Italian Renaissance architecture and Baroque ornamentation. Here, Mrs. Thorne drew from two lavish rooms at Wilton, the magnificent house designed for Philip Herbert, fourth Earl of Pembroke.
Sandro Botticelli's humanizing yet idealized depiction of the Virgin Mary embracing the baby Jesus conveys the sacred beauty of maternal love. Mary nuzzles her son’s chubby cheek as he grasps the nape of her neck. An angel looks on adoringly. Celebrated in his own time, Botticelli developed a distinctly sentimental and tactile style of painting for both religious and secular subjects.
Tiger Resting is a work by Pierre Andrieu, dated c. 1845, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
No. 37: Miyanokoshi, from the series "Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)" is a work by Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重, dated c. 1835/38, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.