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National Gallery of Art

5,752 works

Brown ink and wash drawing of a round rococo salver with a crowned coat of arms and a scrolled two-part pedestal base.

A Salver with Two Bases

Luigi Valadier, 1755

Brown ink and wash drawing of an ornate scalloped salver with a central crested cartouche and two pedestal candlestick design

A Salver and an Openwork Base

Luigi Valadier, 1755

Pen and ink sketch on tan paper of fluffy chicks, with two full figures and several head and beak studies.

Chicks

Félix Bracquemond

Ink drawing of a coastal landscape with trees on the left, rolling hills, a small sailboat on water, and a dark foreground ro

Coastal Landscape

Félix Bracquemond

Grey wash drawing of sheep in a barn beside a wooden manger, with a hanging lantern and straw on the floor.

Sheep in a Manger

Charles Émile Jacque

Grey wash drawing of sailing boats on a river beside a village church, with a rowing boat in the foreground.

Tull on the River Waal

Nicolaas Wicart

Grey wash drawing of a river with sailing boats, a rowing boat with figures, a thatched cottage and a distant church tower.

Ameide on the River Lek

Nicolaas Wicart

Dante seated in red robe before a lamp, with tormented figures above and a radiant woman in white reaching toward light.

Dante Meditating on the "Divine Comedy"

Jean-Jacques Feuchère, 1843

Etched landscape with large trees, a small columned temple across a lake, figures on a path, and hills under clouds.

Classical Landscape with a Tempietto

Attributed to Frédéric de Moucheron

Black chalk and white highlight drawing of a veiled mother holding a child in a carved arched niche, signed Bida, 1888.

Mother and Child

Alexandre Bida, 1888

Nine small painted lunette studies on tan paper showing figures in groups, labeled Religion, Study, Family, Labor, Rest and R

Studies for Lunettes

Charles Sprague Pearce, 1890/1897

Graphite sketch of figures composed within an arched lunette shape on a tan sheet of paper.

Study for a Lunette

Charles Sprague Pearce, 1890/1897

Pencil study of reclining figures inside a semicircular lunette, with rough strokes suggesting landscape and trees below.

Study for a Lunette [recto]

Charles Sprague Pearce, 1890/1897

Pencil and white chalk study on tan paper showing a draped standing woman and sketched figures in a panel at right.

Studies for a Panel

Charles Sprague Pearce, 1890/1897

Red chalk drawing of a partially unrolled scroll on tan paper, with shaded rolled end and soft cast shadow.

Study of a Scroll

Charles Sprague Pearce, 1890/1897

Pencil sketch on tan paper of a kneeling figure and a standing cloaked figure beside a sailboat mast on a horizon.

Study of Figures

Charles Sprague Pearce, 1890/1897

Graphite sketch of two figures arranged within a semicircular lunette on tan paper.

Study of Figures in a Lunette

Charles Sprague Pearce, 1890/1897

Pencil sketch on tan paper of a seated figure in a flowing robe, seen from behind, with vertical hatching behind.

Study of a Figure from Behind

Charles Sprague Pearce, 1890/1897

Pencil and chalk sketch on tan paper of a kneeling cloaked figure facing a winged standing figure beside a pedestal.

Study of a Figure from Behind [recto]

Charles Sprague Pearce, 1890/1897

Pencil sketches on tan paper showing robed figures in semicircular lunette frames and a large standing woman in a long dress.

Studies for a Lunette

Charles Sprague Pearce, 1890/1897

Pencil and colored pencil study for a lunette showing arched compositions with draped and standing figures on tan paper.

Studies for a Lunette [recto]

Charles Sprague Pearce, 1890/1897

Circular sheet with loose graphite sketch lines suggesting a figure, overlapping curves and diagonals, faint brown stains on

Figure Study

Charles Sprague Pearce, 1890/1897

Study of two female figures in pale dresses lifting a tablet across an arched border, watercolor on tan paper.

Study of Two Female Figures in Arched Border

Charles Sprague Pearce, 1890/1897

Pencil sketches of semicircular lunette designs with seated figures, desks, books and labels reading Study and Religion.

Studies for Lunettes [recto]

Charles Sprague Pearce, 1890/1897

Pencil study on tan paper: a loose conifer branch at upper left and a stylized leafy border sprig at right.

Study for a Border Design with a Sketch of a Tree

Charles Sprague Pearce, 1890/1897

Pencil drawing of a decorative border with scrolls, trefoil shapes and wave patterns on tracing paper.

Tracing of a Border Design

Charles Sprague Pearce, 1890/1897

Ink and wash sketches of scrolls with curled ends on tan paper, including one large unrolled scroll and several smaller studi

Sketches for a Scroll

Charles Sprague Pearce, 1890/1897

Brown ink and wash drawing of a family with children playing, a child riding a toy horse, and a small soldier with a flag.

The Happy Family with Children Playing

Johann Eleazar Zeissig

Loose oil sketch of a seated young woman in a black dress with yellow ribbon, hands folded, on tan paper.

Young Woman in Black

Edgar Degas, 1861/1865

Pencil and grey wash drawing of a woman in a black dress and bonnet seated on a chair on a beach.

Seated Lady in Black, Trouville

Eugène-Louis Boudin, 1865