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National Gallery of Art

25,761 works

Portrait of an older man with wavy hair in a tan coat, holding a quill over paper at a desk, against a dark background.

Timothy Matlack

Rembrandt Peale, 1802

Oil portrait of an elderly man with curly gray hair, black cravat and dark coat against a brown background.

Thomas Sully

Rembrandt Peale, 1859

Oval portrait of an older man with white hair in a dark blue military coat with gold epaulettes and yellow collar.

George Washington

Rembrandt Peale, 1850

Vanitas still life with a skull, roses, hourglass, butterflies and soap bubbles on a stone ledge against a dark background.

Vanitas Still Life

Jan van Kessel the Elder, 1665

Painting of the Virgin Mary ascending to heaven on clouds, borne by angels, while apostles gaze up beside a stone tomb.

The Assumption of the Virgin

Juan de Valdés Leal, 1659

Still life painting of two pears, a knife on a gilt-edged plate, a bottle and two wine glasses on a white cloth.

Two Pears on a Tabletop

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1866

Painting of the Parthenon's columns and fallen marble blocks, with a small figure, a blue sea, and distant mountains under a

Ruins of the Parthenon

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1880

Painting of a hazy golden plain with a dirt road, travelers, a white tent, and a town with minarets under the sun.

Siout, Egypt

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1874

Painting of the Virgin in a green mantle with hands clasped beside a sleeping infant, with a landscape behind.

Madonna Adoring the Child

Marco Basaiti, 1520

Painting of two men pulling a sled with a sap barrel and a boy riding on it through a snowy maple forest.

On Their Way to Camp

Eastman Johnson, 1873

Woman in brown dress leaning over a log to pick white water lilies in a pond, with her reflection on the water.

Gathering Lilies

Eastman Johnson, 1865

Painting of an elderly man reading a newspaper beside a child in blue, with a knitting woman by a marble fireplace.

The Brown Family

Eastman Johnson, 1869

Woman in dark dress and red-trimmed bonnet stands in a coastal field with grazing sheep and the sea behind her.

Lambs, Nantucket

Eastman Johnson, 1874

Oil portrait of a bearded older man in a dark coat and white collar, gazing to the side against a dark background.

Joseph Wesley Harper, Jr.

Eastman Johnson, 1885

Night landscape with moonlight over a river, two bathing nude women, and an armored rider on horseback beside a large twisted

Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1888

Painting of a man mending a harness beside a white horse and cart on a dirt road under a golden sky.

Mending the Harness

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1870

Seated soldier in a dim interior smoking a long pipe, with a table of cards and a jug and armor nearby.

A Soldier Smoking a Pipe

Frans van Mieris the Elder, 1657

Painting of the Seine at dusk with a bridge, silhouetted towers, a moored barge, and a figure on the riverbank.

The Seine

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1902

Painting of a thatched cottage with a robed shepherd and sheep in front, under a leaning tree in hazy ochre and green tones.

The Good Shepherd

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1918

Still life painting of apples, a pear, grapes and assorted nuts arranged on a pale tabletop against a dark background.

Still Life with Fruit and Nuts

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1848

Still life of a hanging bouquet with roses, tulips, anemones and a blue ribbon against a dark background.

A Hanging Bouquet of Flowers

Abraham Mignon, 1665

Dark still life painting of fruit in a basket, fish, a frog, a lizard, perched birds and a nest with eggs.

Still Life with Fruit, Fish, and a Nest

Abraham Mignon, 1675

Painted landscape with a river, rapids, a ruined tower on a cliff, tall trees, and snowy mountains in haze.

Fanciful Landscape

Thomas Doughty, 1834

Painting of a snowy mountain at dusk with golden sunlight on its peak, dark pines in the foreground, and pale blue sky.

Mount Monadnock

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1911

Crowd of figures, animals and jugs gathered at water flowing from a rock in a wooded landscape, after Joachim Wtewael's 1624

Moses Striking the Rock

Joachim Wtewael, 1624

Painting of whitewashed village houses with red roofs above green fields, distant trees, a pale moon in a twilight sky.

Midsummer Twilight

Willard Metcalf, 1890

Painting of the Madonna in a blue mantle holding a nude infant Christ against a rocky landscape with clouds.

Madonna and Child

Bartolomeo Montagna, 1490

Painting of two women reclining on a rug in an arched terrace, a lute player beside them, with a blue sea view behind.

Favorite of the Emir

Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, 1879

Cubist painting of a seated musician with a violin, fragmented into grey and blue planes beside a piano and sheet music.

The Musician

Louis Marcoussis, 1914

Oil portrait of a woman in a dark dress and white collar against a warm red and yellow background.

Madame Cahen

Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, 1869