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National Gallery of Art

5,752 works

Charcoal figure studies on paper showing a nude youth's leg, torso, foot and hand in loose sketched lines.

Figure Studies of a Nude Youth

John Singer Sargent

Vincenzio Piombi

Jean-Baptiste Wicar

Pencil portrait of a young woman with hair in a bun and beaded necklace, set in an oval frame with flower garland and ribbon.

Portrait of a Girl

Brown ink and wash drawing of a draped female figure holding a radiant shield above a rocky landscape with a village.

Allegorical Female Figure in a Landscape [recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1600

Pen and brown wash drawing with allegorical figures Aqua, Terra, Autumnus and Hyems around ornamental cartouches.

Water and Earth/Autumn and Winter

Unknown artist, late 16th century

Seated Girl in Peasant Costume

Unknown artist, 19th century

Pen and brown ink sketch of two heads: a man with curled hair and lace collar, and a woman in a plumed hat.

Cavalier with a Harlot

Unknown artist, 17th century

Head of an Old Man

Attributed to Gerrit Claesz Bleker

Pen and grey wash drawing of a seated man in a wide-brimmed hat, lace collar and ruffled cuffs, leaning on a stool.

Seated Cavalier

Attributed to Jan Philipz van Bouckhorst, c. 1630

Pencil drawing of an older bearded man seated by a window, with trees and shrubs visible in the garden outside.

Jacob Meyer-Heine

Félix Bracquemond, 1872

Pen and wash drawing of a female warrior in classical armor holding a sword, with faint preparatory sketch lines.

Erminia

Peter von Cornelius

Pencil sketch of a hilltop town with a bell tower seen through trees, with handwritten colour notes below.

View through the Trees at Tivoli [recto]

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1848

Brown wash drawing of a man in a cap poling a flat boat through marsh reeds, with white highlights on the grasses.

The Poleman in the Ma'sh

Thomas Eakins, c. 1881

The Angel of the Annunciation

Guercino, c. 1638/1639

Standing Nude Girl

Thomas Hovenden

Brown wash drawing of women and a child around a candle in a dim interior, one woman holding a jug.

"It is good candles which light the way"

Jacob Jordaens, 1640s

Graphite drawing of the Presentation in the Temple, showing figures with an infant before tall classical columns and an arche

The Presentation in the Temple

Laurent de La Hyre, c. 1648

Head of a Macedonian Soldier

Atelier Assistant of Charles Le Brun, c. 1668

Pastel drawing of an older bearded man with curly gray hair and a yellow garment against a pale blue-gray background.

Head of a Bearded Man

Benedetto Luti, 1715

Pink-washed drawing of a king on a throne judging two kneeling women as a soldier raises a sword in an arcaded hall.

The Judgment of Solomon

Master of the Liechtenstein Adoration, c. 1550

Chalk study of an elderly woman's upturned face in a veil, with two hand studies, on blue-gray paper.

Studies for Saint Anne in "Education of the Virgin"

Agostino Masucci

Charcoal sketch of a man in a hat raising a glass to drink, with studies of his arms and torso.

Studies of a Man Drinking

Adolph Menzel, 1888

Charcoal drawing of a sunlit garden with a bound tree, shrubs, flower pots, and two thatched cottages behind hedges.

Sunlit Garden

Jean-Baptiste Millet

Graphite sketch of a seated bearded man in a turban with surrounding studies of heads and a standing figure in a tall hat.

Caliph Aladin and His Counselors

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, late 1730s

Brown wash drawing of a seated woman in classical dress leaning on a lyre, with a dark shaded background.

Lady Hamilton Playing a Lyre

George Romney, c. 1785

Red chalk drawing of a standing man in a plumed cap and puffed breeches, seen from behind, raising a long-necked lute.

Man Playing a Lute [recto]

Matteo Rosselli

Pen and ink sketch of several nude men in violent battle poses, with a shield and bearded heads, on buff paper.

Battle of Nude Men

Peter Paul Rubens

Pencil portrait of a man in a bow tie with clasped hands, drawn by Egon Schiele on tan paper.

Dr. Ernst Wagner

Egon Schiele, 1918

Black chalk drawing of the Virgin and Child with young John the Baptist, with a staff and cherubs in clouds above.

The Virgin and Child with John the Baptist

Pen and wash drawing of a border with a reclining river god, putti, a cornucopia of fruit, and reeds.

River God with Putti