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National Gallery of Art

25,670 works

Painting of a Mandan medicine man with feathered headdress and staffs, surrounded by a crowd before earth lodges on the prair

A Mandan Medicine Man

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Half-length portrait of a woman with blue ribbons in her auburn hair, holding a folded paper on a stone ledge.

Lucrezia Sommaria

Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio, 1510

Woman in yellow jacket with fur trim writing with a quill at a blue-covered table in a dim interior.

A lady writing

Johannes Vermeer, 1665

Painted facsimile of a hide robe with small warriors in feathered headdresses, some on horses, arranged in rows.

Facsimile of the Robe of Mah-to-toh-pa - Mandan

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Oil painting of a woman in black walking a narrow Venetian street past two men in dark coats and shuttered houses.

Street in Venice

John Singer Sargent, 1882

Woman in blue jacket and white headdress holds a balance scale beside a table of pearls and jewelry, lit from a window.

Woman Holding a Balance

Johannes Vermeer, 1664

Oval painting of seated men in a thatched ceremonial lodge with buffalo skulls, shields, and a central fire.

Mandan Ceremony - The Water Sinks Down

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of St. George on horseback spearing a dragon while a kneeling woman prays, with a river and city behind.

St. George and the Dragon

Il Sodoma, 1518

Painting of a classical palace behind a brick wall and stone archway, with figures and dogs on a gravel path under cloudy sky

An Architectural Fantasy

Jan van der Heyden, 1670

Three Iowa men in feathered headdresses and fringed dress stand on grassland, one holding a spear and another a pipe.

Three Iowa Indians

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Portrait of a seated woman in a black dress, lace bonnet and gold necklace against a green background, dated 1833.

Eliza R. Read

Royall Brewster Smith, 1833

Painting of a tree-lined Dutch canal with brick houses, moored barges, a small bridge, and a distant church spire.

View Down a Dutch Canal

Jan van der Heyden, 1670

Three standing figures in traditional dress on a grassy plain, the central man wearing a feathered headdress and red clothing

Three Iroquois Indians

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painted landscape with rolling green hills, hunting dogs chasing animals, and two men in tunics gesturing in the foreground.

The Misfortunes of Cephalus

Bernardino Luini, 1520

Madonna and Child flanked by two saints in a landscape with a hilltop castle, painted in 1492.

Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome and Saint John the Baptist

Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, 1492

Three Indigenous figures in painted robes and feathered headdresses stand on grass; one holds a shield and bow.

Three Riccarree Indians

George Catlin, 1861

Group portrait of two women and two young boys on a balustraded terrace with roses and trees behind them.

The Marquise de Pezay, and the Marquise de Rougé with her sons Alexis and Adrien

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1787

Nude winged figure with golden halo beside a red cloth in a desert of jagged white rocks and a winding river.

Saint John in the Desert

Domenico Veneziano, 1445

Four Indigenous men seated on grass in an oval frame, one elderly with gray hair, others in feathered headdresses, one holdin

An Aged Ojibbeway Chief and Three Warriors

George Catlin, 1861/1869

A Sleeping Girl

Pietro Rotari, 1760

Painting of the Madonna holding the nude Christ Child before a dark background of roses, both with gold haloes.

Madonna and Child

Domenico Veneziano, 1447

Painting of two Ojibbeway warriors with feathered headdresses and a woman holding an infant in a cradleboard on a plain.

Two Ojibbeway Warriors and a Woman

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of a young woman with a white flower in her hair, wearing a blue bodice and white chemise, holding a dark braid.

A Girl with a Flower in Her Hair

Pietro Rotari, 1760

Still life of wild strawberries in a blue and white bowl with a red carnation, scattered cherries and currants on a table.

Wild Strawberries and a Carnation in a Wan-Li Bowl

Jacob van Hulsdonck, 1620

Oval painting of Indigenous figures in beaded robes beside a tipi, with two archers drawing bows on a grassy plain.

Ojibbeway Indians

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painted portrait of a man in a black cap and dark robe, set against a hilly landscape under a pale blue sky.

Portrait of Lorenzo di Credi

Pietro Perugino, 1488

Oil portrait of a woman in pink silk with two children and a dog beneath a large tree in a wooded landscape.

Lady Elizabeth Delmé and Her Children

Joshua Reynolds, 1777

Painting of a Saukie warrior with shield and spear, a boy with a staff, and a woman in a pink blanket on grassland.

Saukie Warrior, His Wife, and a Boy

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Triptych with Crucifixion in center, Virgin and Saint John below, penitent saint left, woman with vessel right, in gilded fra

Triptych

Pietro Perugino, 1482

Portrait of a young man in pink waistcoat and grey coat, with a Gothic college and spire behind him.

A Graduate of Merton College, Oxford

George Knapton, 1754