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National Gallery of Art

5,752 works

Study in Black and Gold (Madge O'Donoghue)

James McNeill Whistler, 1883/1884

Pen and ink landscape drawing with a hilltop castle, rocky cliffs, large trees, small figures, and clouds.

Landscape with the Baptism of Christ

Attributed to Pieter Cornelisz Kunst, c. 1530

Brown ink drawing of townspeople skating and playing on a frozen canal beside gabled houses and a castle tower in winter.

Winter Landscape with Skaters

Hans Bol, c. 1584/1586

Red and black chalk sketch of a crowd of figures supporting a reclining nude man in a procession.

The March of Silenus [recto]

Jean-Antoine Watteau, c. 1715/1716

Brown ink and wash sketch of a standing young man with one arm extended, drawn with loose hatched strokes on pale paper.

A Young Man with a Staff

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, c. 1765

Watercolor drawing of a dying man on a blue bed attended by two haloed figures beneath a rainbow arc of angel faces.

The Death of Saint Joseph

William Blake, 1803

An Eagle

Titian, 1560/1565

Red chalk drawing of a heap of weathered boulders with small plants growing among the rocks on a pale sheet.

Weathered Boulders

Franz Edmund Weirotter, c. 1769

Fan-shaped painting of wildflowers and butterflies on the left, with a sandy beach, sea and cliffs on the right.

Fan with Wildflowers and Butterflies against the Norman Coast

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, c. 1875

Watercolor seascape of dark blue-green waves under a grey cloudy sky with a pale pink horizon.

Lesson Study on Jersey Coast

John La Farge, 1881

Pen and brown wash sketch of Bacchus and Ariadne with a raised-arm male figure, reclining woman, and small cherub below.

Bacchus and Ariadne

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, c. 1745

Standing young man in blue coat leaning on ruined wall with classical stone relief and distant arches.

Frederick North, Later Fifth Earl of Guilford, in Rome

Hugh Douglas Hamilton, 1790

Brown ink and wash drawing of a religious procession under a canopy, with a mitred bishop and a crowd around a kneeling figur

The Healing of the Possessed Boy in a Procession of the Volto Santo

Elisabetta Sirani, c. 1659

Pen and ink study of robed figures gathered beneath a large arch and columns in a stone interior with steps.

Study after Old Master

Elihu Vedder, c. 1858

Pen and ink study of robed figures before tall columns, with separate head studies in the corners, after Domenichino.

Study after Domenichino

Elihu Vedder, c. 1858

Pencil and red chalk study of a man in a pleated garment carrying a child on his shoulders, with sketched heads at right.

Study after Gozzoli

Elihu Vedder, 1858

Pencil sketch of a standing hunter with a wide-brimmed hat, staff, and leash, with two dogs at his feet.

Study of Hunter with Dogs

Elihu Vedder, c. 1858

Study of a Girl Reading

Elihu Vedder, c. 1858

Study of a Girl's Head

Elihu Vedder, c. 1858

Pencil and red chalk sketch of two students in a bohemian room, one seated in a hat and cloak, one reclining, with a trunk an

Students in the Latin Quarter, Paris

Elihu Vedder, c. 1858

Pencil sketch of a stone archway framing a shaded path, with the inscription Rome and the date 1857.

Rome

Elihu Vedder, 1857

Pen and ink sketch on blue paper of a stone house, thatched hut, flagpole and small figures in a rural landscape.

Tuscany

Elihu Vedder, c. 1858

Pencil sketch of two women with jars on their heads beside a market stall, with a donkey and figures in the foreground.

Son and Donkey

Elihu Vedder, c. 1859

Pencil sketch of a man riding a donkey past two women and a standing man near cypress trees and an arched doorway.

The Parable of the Miller and the Donkey

Elihu Vedder, c. 1859

Pencil sketch of a kneeling man and standing man with a stick beside women on stone steps, with a horse and distant town.

Father and Son

Elihu Vedder, c. 1859

Pencil sketch of a rider on a donkey above two figures, a man and a boy, walking away from the viewer.

Father, Son, and Donkey

Elihu Vedder, c. 1859

Pencil sketch of figures carrying poles across a sandy ground, with a sailing ship and a dog drawn at the right edge.

Village Scene

Elihu Vedder, c. 1859

Pencil sketch of three cloaked figures under a tree, a man with a staff in the foreground, and a distant rider.

Son and the Donkey

Elihu Vedder, c. 1859

Hand-drawn ground floor plan with colored pencil washes showing rooms, a pergola, and handwritten notes about the hillside si

Ground Floor Plan for Torre Quatro Venti

Elihu Vedder, c. 1905

Drawing of a steamship in distress and two crowded lifeboats tossed on rough grey-green waves under a stormy sky.

The Shipwreck

Elihu Vedder, c. 1880