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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Etching of dolphin-like sea creatures and a crocodile in choppy water, with a sailboat and distant coastline on the horizon.

Dolphins and Crocodile

Jacques Callot, 1628

Etching of a sheep in the foreground by trees, with a grazing flock in a meadow and hills beyond.

Sheep Calling Lamb

Jacques Callot, 1628

Etching of a huntress with a spear and leash among running dogs in a landscape with trees and a fence.

The Huntress

Jacques Callot, 1628

Etching of a doe and a lowered-head animal beside a tree, with a hunter at left and a hilly landscape behind.

Doe Mourning her Foal

Jacques Callot, 1628

Etching of a seated dog with a bone beside a lying dog, under a bare windblown tree and rolling hills.

Lioness Mourning her Cub

Jacques Callot, 1628

Etching of a windswept tree on a rocky hill, a bird flying in the sky, and distant hills under clouds.

Turtle Dove Flying in the Desert

Jacques Callot, 1628

Pen and brown wash drawing of allegorical figures, putti and a warrior with spear arranged among clouds.

The Triumph of Virtue and Divine Wisdom

Livio Retti, 1736

Etching of Noah's Ark with a gabled roof floating on rough waves, rain falling from clouds, and a bird carrying a branch.

Noah's Ark

Jacques Callot, 1628

Etching of a man in a cap bending to cut a slender shrub, with windblown trees and a distant town in the landscape.

Man Cutting a Balm-Tree

Jacques Callot, 1628

Etching of a man tending a fire with smoke billowing upward, ruins and trees on a hill at left.

Man Attending a Fire

Jacques Callot, 1628

Etching of a rocky outcrop under dark clouds, with sunbeams breaking over a distant village and hills on the right.

Sun and Rain

Jacques Callot, 1628

Etching of an ornate crown with a cherub face above a laurel wreath held by two hands, with a rocky landscape behind.

The Two Crowns

Jacques Callot, 1628

Etching of a flooded river landscape with a windblown tree on the right, ruins and obelisks along distant shores.

The Nile Flooding

Jacques Callot, 1628

Etching of two women seated at a tea table in a dim interior, one drinking from a cup beside a silver teapot.

Lydia and Her Mother at Tea

Mary Cassatt, 1882

Pen and ink landscape of a large lake with a castle, village, church, boats, and wooded hills under a framing tree.

Landscape with a Large Lake at Center

Augustin Hirschvogel, 1546

Engraving of two bearded men seated in a landscape, one holding an open book and the other gesturing, with a sword at their f

Saints Peter and Paul Seated in a Landscape

Lucas van Leyden, 1527

Red chalk drawing of a young woman kneeling and reaching forward with outstretched arms, draped in loose cloth.

Young Woman Kneeling and Reaching Forward [verso]

Charles de La Fosse, 1698

Red chalk drawing of two seated young women in draped dress, with a hand study below and a partial figure at right.

Two Young Women Seated on the Ground [recto]

Charles de La Fosse, 1698

Etching of a murky river with factory buildings and smokestacks on the far bank, with sailboats and a rowboat in the water.

The Troubled Thames

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1875

Etching of a shadowed arched passage with overhanging branches, opening onto a sunlit quay with a small seated figure.

The Traghetto, No.I

James McNeill Whistler, 1879/1880

Brown ink and wash drawing of a stormy forest with two figures, one kneeling and one reclining, beneath bending trees.

Clap of Thunder [recto]

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a winged figure leaning toward a seated cupid-like child against hatched shadows.

Mab and Cupid (Mab et Cupidon)

Alphonse Legros

Color woodcut of waves breaking on a shore, with a dark boat and figures at left under a cloudy sky.

Unfurled Waves, Flood of September 1901 (Les lames deferlent,maree de Septembre 1901)

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1901

Brown ink drawing of a hunched figure carrying a bundle on a path beside trees, with a glowing sun behind clouds at dusk.

Landscape, Evening

Alphonse Legros

Brown wash drawing of flat countryside with gnarled trees, two figures with a rake in the foreground, and a distant village.

View over Flat Country

Alphonse Legros, 1906

Engraving of Apollo dancing hand in hand with nine draped muses in a horizontal procession.

Apollo Dancing with the Nine Muses

Unknown artist

Bird's-eye woodcut view of Venice with canals, rooftops, lagoon, distant mountains and wind heads in clouds.

View of Venice [upper left block]

Jacopo de' Barbari, 1500

Bird's-eye woodcut view of Venice and its lagoon with islands and boats, framed by Mercury and a wind figure in clouds.

View of Venice [upper center block]

Jacopo de' Barbari, 1500

Woodcut panorama of Venice and its lagoon, with small sailing boats and a cloud-borne wind head blowing across the water.

View of Venice [upper right block]

Jacopo de' Barbari, 1500

Bird's-eye print of Venice and its lagoon with ships, canals, gardens and cloud-puffing wind heads.

View of Venice [lower left block]

Jacopo de' Barbari, 1500