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National Gallery of Art

5,752 works

Watercolor of a ruined Doric temple with four columns and a seated figure on the steps, surrounded by trees under a blue sky.

A Temple Ruin in Agrigento

Carl Götzloff, 1825

Watercolor drawing of the Colosseum interior with tiered arches, ruined walls, small figures on the arena floor, and a cloudy

Interior of the Colosseum

Watercolor drawing of the Arch of Titus and Roman ruins with a brick bell tower under a pale blue sky.

The Arch of Titus and the Temple of Venus and Rome near the Roman Forum

Pencil drawing of a bearded seated soldier in a kepi and epauletted coat, leaning on a walking stick.

A Seated Soldier

Hippolyte Bellangé

Pencil sketch of a woman with an infant and a boy seated before a carved pulpit in a church interior.

Figures at a Church Service

Hippolyte Bellangé

Sepia drawing of a crowded 1830s street with a curved columned building, awnings and people in period dress.

View of Muhlendamm

Johann Friedrich Stock, 1834

Ink and wash drawing of a standing man in a long overcoat, hands in pockets, on tan paper.

Standing Man

Watercolor of a kneeling man in red gazing up at three giant elderly faces beyond a window with curtains.

Gulliver Awed by Three Giant Beggars in the Land of Brobdingnag

Paul Gavarni, 1862

Kneeling Shepherd

Brown wash drawing of a bound man before a seated ruler on a dais, with spear-carrying soldiers and a draped canopy.

Christ before Herod

Jacopo Ligozzi, 1591

Watercolor of a marmot seated on a rock beside a branch of blue plums and leaves.

A Marmot with a Branch of Plums

Jacopo Ligozzi, 1605

Night landscape with a moonlit castle behind dark trees, framed by a pen-and-ink border with scrolls and a sarcophagus.

Das Schloss am Meer (Castle on the Sea)

Adolf Friedrich Teichs, 1850

Watercolor study of four bearded men in turbans and robes, one seated in blue, by Auguste Raffet, 1837.

An Elderly Jew and a Muslim Tartar in the Crimea

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, 1837

Brown wash drawing of three mounted horsemen with lances fording a river beneath windblown trees at dusk.

Three Arab Horsemen Crossing a River

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1835

Brown-toned drawing of a large tree, two small figures on a rise, a distant building and hills under clouds.

Oriental Landscape

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1845

Charcoal and chalk drawing of two harnessed draft horses standing in a dim stable beside a wooden bench.

Two Draft Horses

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1830

Pen and brown ink sketch of a nude male figure kneeling, one arm raised overhead, with hatched shading on the body.

A Male Nude Kneeling

Pen and ink drawing of Death entering a vaulted room where a miser counts coins beside a canopied bed.

The Death of the Miser

William Henry Brooke

Wash drawing of Adam and Eve with two children in a wooded landscape, one child offered a flower by the male figure.

Adam and Eve with Cain and Abel

Carlo Alberto Baratta

Graphite and white chalk drawing of a standing man in 18th-century embroidered coat and breeches on gray paper.

A Gentleman

John Singleton Copley, 1776

Pastel portrait of a man in a powdered wig, brown coat and blue sash against a dark background.

John Temple

John Singleton Copley, 1765

Pen and ink study of rearing horses and riders in a diagonal battle composition on tan paper.

Study for "The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar"

John Singleton Copley, 1783

Pencil sketch of a room with seated figures in turbans watching a dancer in the center beneath a hanging chandelier.

Interior with Dancer

Edmond Hédouin

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a young girl with closed eyes, wearing a flower crown, resting on a pillow.

A Girl on Her Deathbed with a Crown of Flowers

Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann, 1882

Watercolor of a beached rowboat on sand beside weathered wooden buildings, with a pier and misty sea behind.

Beached Vessel

George Loring Brown, 1880

Red chalk drawing of a seated woman, a standing man, a young woman and a child in 18th-century dress.

The Letter

Johann Eleazar Zeissig

A Gentleman Standing with His Arms Crossed

François-André Vincent

The Angel of the Annunciation

Swabian School, 1480s

Circular drawing with washes of a submerged man reaching toward a fruit tree with scrolls, framed in wood with gold edge.

Tantalus

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1535/1540

Chalk drawing of a seated young woman holding a bowl, draped in gray and red cloth beside a stone ledge.

Young Woman with a Bowl, Seated Outdoors

Johann Justin Preissler, 1733