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National Gallery of Art

5,752 works

Mary Wood

John Russell, 1794

Pen and wash drawing of an illusionistic architectural vault with coffered ceiling, cornices and arched bays around a central

Illusionistic Architecture for the Vault of San Ignazio

Andrea Pozzo, 1685/1690

Grey wash drawing of the Holy Family in a carpenter's shop, a man sawing wood, a boy measuring, a woman seated, and an angel

The Holy Family in the Carpenter's Shop

Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen, c. 1755

Grey wash drawing of a timber-framed cottage with a gabled roof and chimney beside a stream, with a small figure and trees.

A Cottage at Dorking in Surrey

John Sell Cotman, c. 1800/1801

Red chalk drawing of a standing male nude figure with head tilted, on warm buff paper.

Male Nude

Gian Antonio Guardi, 1750s

Red chalk drawing of a standing male nude with one arm raised overhead and head turned, on cream paper.

Male Nude

Gian Antonio Guardi, c. 1725

Pen and brown ink drawing of a boy fishing on a grassy bank, with trees, hills, a rider and a distant tower.

Landscape with a Boy Fishing

Domenico Campagnola, 1516

Head of a Man

Domenico Campagnola

Pen and wash drawing of a decorative ceiling design with clouds and gods, grape foliage, classical columns and reclining figu

Illusionistic Ceiling with a Grape Arbor, Figures Poised on Galleries, and a Central Scene of Olympian Gods

Unknown artist, c. 1580/1590

Red chalk drawing of ruined vaulted arches and brick walls with small figures and a fountain, by Piranesi.

The "Canopus" of the Villa Adriana at Tivoli

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1776

Pen and ink drawing of a shepherd playing a flute and leading sheep and cattle through a rocky landscape with a distant town.

Shepherd Playing a Flute and Leading His Flock

Domenico Campagnola

Pen and gray wash drawing of a city square with an equestrian monument and arcaded palace facades under a cloudy sky.

Piazza with an Equestrian Monument and a Palace

Alessandro Sanquirico, c. 1810

Pen and grey wash drawing of a garden with stone terraces, obelisks, and weeping willows framing a fountain.

A Palatial Garden with Circular Terraces

Alessandro Sanquirico, c. 1810

Blue monochrome drawing of river rapids below wooded rock cliffs, with a wooden bridge and figures at right.

River Rapids by Wooded Cliffs

Claude Louis Châtelet, c. 1780

Brown wash drawing with red chalk of armed figures and smoke in a dark wooded setting, sketched in loose strokes.

A Young Woman Overcome by Love [recto]

Jean-Baptiste Deshays, c. 1763

Black and red chalk sketch of a woman with raised arm and loose studies of drapery and figure contours.

A Reclining Nude with Her Right Arm Raised over a Swift Composition Study [verso]

Jean-Baptiste Deshays, c. 1763

Pen and ink drawing of a sailing ship and rowboats at a harbor with a statue, spired buildings and clouds.

Seascape

Rodolphe Bresdin

Drawing of a whimsical thatched farmhouse village with ducks and chickens by a pond under a cloudy sky.

Fantasy Farmhouse

Rodolphe Bresdin, 1853

Pen and ink drawing with brown wash of allegorical figures around a winged figure standing on a wheel, with labeled scrolls.

A Dialogue on Human Favor (recto) [fol. 15 verso / 16 recto]

Unknown artist, 1512/1514

Pen and ink drawing of kneeling and standing figures gazing upward at serpent-like forms and rays in the sky.

"Turn Your Body as You Worship" [fol. 37 verso]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink drawing of a crowned man extending his hand to a group of men reaching up toward him.

"Do Not Give Your Right Hand to All and Sundry" [fol. 13 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Colored drawing of a courtier between Covetousness, a crowned piper with money bags, and a hooded Dissimulation, with a wolf

A Courtier Standing Between Covetousness and Dissimulation [fol. 14 recto]

Unknown artist, 1512/1514

Pen and ink drawing with red wash of a young man among allegorical figures, a Latin scroll, and a crouching figure labeled Ma

"Do Not Walk outside the Public Highway" [fol. 35 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen drawing of allegorical figures around a knight whose red heart is being grasped with pincers, with labeled banners.

"Do Not Eat Your Heart Out" [fol. 22 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink drawing of a haloed bearded man carrying sticks, a crucifix, a lion, and a seated youth under a tree.

"Help Him Who Takes up His Burden, Not Him Who Lays It down" [fol. 31 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen drawing of allegorical figures: a crowned man with scales, two blindfolded women turning a wheel, and two men holding a h

"Friendship Is Equality; A Friend Is Another Self" [fol. 10 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink drawing of a building facade with labeled allegorical figures, a staircase, and banners reading Cras and Tempus.

"Do Not Sit on the Grain Measure" [fol. 12 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink drawing of a spectacled woman riding a horse beside a veiled woman, with banners reading Credulitas and Mater spe

Credulity Preparing to Nurse the Mother of Hope [fol. 18 verso]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink allegory: Hope reaches toward a banner among sad monks, joyful dancers, fearful figures and soldiers.

Hope, Reaching for Heaven, Stands among Sad and Happy Men, Joys, and Fear [fol. 19 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Ink and wash drawing of a sick man in bed, a miser, a kneeling man, and a red-robed ape beside an apple tree.

An Ape in Purple with a Sick Man, a Good Man, and a Miser [fol. 36 verso]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515