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National Gallery of Art

433 works

Engraving of a toucan and a crested bird before a landscape of mountains, a village, and boats on water.

Toucan and Another Tropical Bird

Adriaen Collaert, c. 1600

Sepia drawing of a cow, horse, and sleeping man with a cat in a rustic stable filled with hay.

Animals in a Stable

Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg II

Pencil sketch of herdsmen and cattle moving beneath a large tree in an open pastoral landscape.

Herdsmen and Cattle

Eugène-Louis Boudin, 1877

Engraving of two birds in a landscape with a city, stone bridge, sailboat, palm and willow trees.

Waxwing and Another Bird

Adriaen Collaert, c. 1600

An Antique Sculpture of a Horse

Jacques-Louis David, 1780

Pencil sketch of uniformed officers standing among saddled horses, with smaller studies of horses above, on tan paper.

Officers and Horses at Rest

Winslow Homer, 1864

Engraving of a magpie and another bird on a branch, with a watermill, cottage and cow in the rural background.

Magpie and Another Bird

Adriaen Collaert, c. 1600

Engraving of an ornate column topped by a many-breasted female figure, with stags, a griffin, unicorns and winged figures.

A Grotesque with Diana of Ephesus and Diverse Animals

Master AP, 1555

Pen and brown ink drawing of a standing nude figure with draped cloth, beside a cat, a pig, and a pedestal.

Allegorical Figure with a Cat and a Pig

Jacopo di Giovanni di Francesco, c. 1530

Black woodcut print on yellow paper showing a boy holding a cat, with bold angular dark shapes and light gouged areas.

Boy with Cat (Knabe mit Katze)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1919

Lion's Head from the Capitoline Staircase

Augustin Pajou, 1752/1756

Charcoal study on brown paper of horses in motion, one with a rider, plus studies of legs and heads.

Study of Horses

Edgar Degas, c. 1886

Lithograph of a lion crouched over a dead horse on rocky ground, with a dark rock face behind them.

Lion Devouring a Horse

Théodore Géricault, 1823

Hand-colored print of a reclining lion in front of a rock face beneath a leafy tree.

The Lion

John Baptist Jackson, 1754

Charcoal sketch of a horse with its head turned left, carrying a rider seen from behind.

Horse and Rider

Edgar Degas, c. 1878

Sketch of two horses standing on open ground under loose clouds, drawn in dark chalk on brown paper.

Horses

after Paulus Potter Anonymous

Watercolor of ostlers changing horses at a French post house as a carriage passenger waves from the coach.

Changing Horses at a Post House in France

Thomas Rowlandson, c. 1790

Pen and ink sketch of a man fused with a smoking cannon beside a figure in a boxlike masquerade headpiece.

Two Men in Masquerade Costumes: A Cannon Firing and a Cat Inside a Mousetrap

Stefano Della Bella, c. 1645

Black wood engraving of a long-billed bird perched on a gnarled branch against a cream background.

A Bird

Thomas Bewick, c. 1800

Sepia etching of a saddled horse, a pipe-smoking soldier in a greatcoat, and a wagon with soldiers behind them.

Horse with Soldiers Smoking Pipe/Military Scene

Johann Adam Klein, 1816

The Neighing Horse

after Paulus Potter Johann Teyler, c. 1685-1697

Pencil and watercolor ornamental design of two swallows above peaches and leaves, with a repeating fan-like pattern above.

Ornamental design with two birds pecking at fruit

Vítězslav Karel Mašek, c.1890s

Sketch in brown wash and graphite of a seated cat with white chest and muzzle, turned to the right, on tan paper.

Cat with a White Front

Gwen John, 1910/1915

Watercolor of cattle drinking at a wooded pond at dusk, with tall trees and rolling hills under a pale evening sky.

Evening Light on a Wooded Lakeside with Cattle Drinking

Henri Harpignies, 1882

Pen and wash landscape with large trees on the left, three small figures and a dog in the foreground, and rolling hills.

A Landscape with Three Figures and a Dog

Théodore Rousseau

Watercolor drawing of two drovers in hats wrestling a pair of rearing grey horses, one man raising a whip overhead.

Drovers with a Pair of Rearing Horses

Thomas Rowlandson

Sepia drawing of two cows and a goat beside a cliff, with a reclining shepherd in the foreground and mountains in the distanc

Landscape with Cattle, a Goat, and a Resting Shepherd

Pietro Giacomo Palmieri, 1774

Etched landscape with a rocky cliff, pine trees, a stream with dogs, and two figures, one on horseback, under a cloudy sky.

A Woman with a Horse and a Standing Man

Joachim Franz Beich, c.1700-1725

Ink sketch of two angular dancers on brown paper, with a cat sitting in the lower left corner.

Two Dancers with a Cat

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1913

Two Lions (Zwei Löwen)

Paul Gangolf, 1900-1945