Bonaparte, Caroline, [Nestoris à figures rouges] : [ Zeus , Hébé et Hermès], Crayon et encre de Chine, lavis d’encre ; 39 x 51 cm. (f.), 1801-1814 ; Bibliothèque nationale de France, domaine public. © Public domain
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, The Fisherman’s Family, Oil on canvas, 1887 ; The Art Institute of Chicago. © Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Jean François Millet, Peasant Digging, Woodcut in black, retouched with charcoal and Chinese white on buff wove paper, 1863 ; The Art Institute of Chicago. © Gift of Alice H. Brown in memory of Cyrus Hall McCormick
Pietro da Cortona, Juno, Zeus and Aeolus, Pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper, 1675–1699 ; The Art Institute of Chicago. © The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Henry Fuseli, Titans Storming Mount Olympus, Pen and black ink and brush and black, gray, and pale brown wash, heightened with touches of white chalk, on cream laid paper, perimeter mounted on tan laid paper, 1765–1777 ; The Art Institute of Chicago. © The Art Institute of Chicago
Francesco Bartoli, Untitled (A chalice of green jasper), A chalice of green jasper; with knop and base of stem in gold filigree, with a separate device to right. Watercolour and bodycolour, heightened with white and gold. 1690-1730 ; British Museum . © Trustees of the British Museum
Pablo Picasso, Mother and Child, Oil on canvas, 1921 ; Art Institute Chicago. © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Niccolò Vicentino, Saturn, Chiaroscuro woodcut, printed from four blocks, in four shades of gray, on white laid paper, 1545–1555 ; Art Institute Chicago © Stanley Field Endowment
Giovanni Battista Coriolano, Study for Saturn Presiding over the City of Bologna, with the Arms of Cardinal Giulio Sacchetti, Red chalk, over traces of black chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory laid card, 1635–1645 ; Art Institute Chicago. © The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
William Strang, The Earth Fiend, 1859-1921 ; © Elkin Mathews & John Lane
Eugène Delacroix, Crouching Woman, Black and red chalk, with pastel, heightened with white chalk, over wash, on tan wove paper, 1827 ; Art Institute Chicago. © Through prior bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Grégoire de Nazianze, Rhéa trompant Cronos, Illumination, 11 AD ; France, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Coislin 239. © Bibliothèque nationale de France
Odilon Redon, Primitive Man, Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, wiping and erasing, heightened with touches of white and ocher gouache, on cream wove paper altered to a pale, golden tone, 1872. Art Insitute Chicago. © Through prior bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson
Circle of Titian, Sketches of Standing Male Nude, Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown and gray wash (recto), and red and black chalk (verso) on cream laid paper, 1580-1620 ; Art Insitute Chicago © The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
William Baziotes, Cyclops, Oil on canvas, 1947 ; Art Insitute Chicago. © Walter M. Campana Memorial Prize Fund
Odilon Redon, Sita, Pastel, with touches of black Conté crayon, over various charcoals, on cream wove paper altered to a golden tone, 1882-1898 ; Art Institute Chicago. © Joseph Winterbotham Collection
Max Ernst, Summer Night in Arizona, Oil on canvas, 1944 ; Art Institute Chicago. © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Wou-Ki Zao, The Night is Stirring, Oil on linen, 1956 ; Art Institute Chicago. © Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Kootz
Tai Xiangzhou, Celestial Chaos No. 1, Ink on silk, 2014; Art Institute Chicago. © Courtesy of the artist and Paul Kasmin Gallery.