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National Gallery of Art

25,760 works

Brown wash drawing of a seated woman with a fan and a standing couple in an ornate rococo interior.

Second Day, Second Story: Rinaldo d'Asti and the Widow

Hubert François Gravelot, c. 1757

Brown wash drawing of a man in a plumed hat drawing back a bed curtain to look at a sleeping woman in an elegant interior.

Second Day, Seventh Story: The Duke of Athens Contemplating the Sleeping Princess Alatiel

Hubert François Gravelot after François Boucher, c. 1757

Grey wash drawing of a woman in a long gown receiving a pouch from a man beside a seated clerk writing at a table.

Eighth Day, First Story, Madonna Ambruogia Gives Her Husband the Two Hundred Florins She Was Given by Gulfardo in Pay…

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, c. 1757

Brown ink drawing of a sleeping man on a bed while turbaned men gather in a columned hall with scattered coins.

Tenth Day, Ninth Story: Saladin Bestows Rich Gifts on the Sleeping Torello

Hubert François Gravelot, c. 1757

Engraving of the Great Flood: families in water, a robed figure under a tree, rain-filled sky and distant refugees on a hill.

The Great Flood

Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen, 1765

Brown wash drawing of a reclining nude Io beneath clouds, with an eagle and cupid on a rock above, in a decorative frame.

Jupiter couvre la Terre de Nuages pour jouir d'Io

Charles Monnet, published 1767/1771

Pencil and wash drawing of Phaeton bowing before the seated Sun god in a columned palace, with attendants around him.

Phaeton au Palais du Soleil ...

Jean-Michel Moreau, 1766

Pencil drawing of Jupiter disguised as Diana embracing Callisto beneath a tree, with cupid, dogs and drapery.

Jupiter and Callisto

Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen, 1765

Brown wash drawing of Perseus holding up Medusa's head to armored soldiers, with a winged figure above and fallen bodies belo

Perseus Turning Phinneas to Stone with the Head of Medusa

Charles Monnet, 1767

Grey wash drawing of a gaunt spectral figure hovering over a sleeping man in a curtained bed beside a lamp.

La Famine par l'ordre de Ceres ...

Jean-Michel Moreau, 1767

Engraving of a gaunt winged figure leaning over a sleeping man on a bed beneath drapery, with a lamp on a table nearby.

La Famine par l'ordre de Cérès vient répandre son venin sur Eresicthon, tandis qu'il dormoit

Louis Binet after Jean-Michel Moreau, published 1767/1771

Drawing of Venus embracing Adonis on clouds with cupids above, in grey and white chalk by François Boucher, 1767.

Venus appuyee sur son cher Adonis ...

François Boucher, 1767

Grey wash drawing of a woman on altar steps, a priest with a knife, soldiers, and a goddess with a deer in clouds.

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

Jean-Michel Moreau, 1769

Brown wash drawing of a kneeling man reaching toward a woman under a garlanded garden arch with a balustrade behind.

Le Mari sylphe

Hubert François Gravelot, 1765

Etching of two women and two men picnicking in a wooded glade beside a large tree, with a dog by a pond.

La colation

Jean Moyreau after Antoine Watteau, c. 1729

Red and white chalk drawing of a seated woman in a pink lace-trimmed gown and powdered hairstyle, 1778.

Yes or No

Jean-Michel Moreau, 1778

Pen and wash drawing of a library interior with a couple at a doorway and a seated man studying a framed picture.

Le Connoisseur

Hubert François Gravelot, 1765

Engraving of elegant figures in a garden: a couple reading music, a lute player on a path, and a nude statue on a pedestal.

Lecon d'amour

Charles Dupuis after Antoine Watteau, c. 1734

Engraved interior scene of a farm family with a mother, several children, a dog, and a hearth fire beneath stone columns.

La famille du fermier

Clément-Pierre Marillier after Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1791

Dark leather book cover with gold tooled border, central crown and fleur-de-lis emblem, and classical column motifs.

Album of Portraits of Queen Marie-Antoinette

Various Artists, volume assembled between 1815 and 1942

Oval engraved scene of Minerva crowning a seated winged genius, framed by a hand-colored rose and ivy garland with purple rib

Minerva Crowning the Genius of Fine Arts

Unknown artist, early 1780s?

Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette

Jean Pillement, Jean-Baptiste-André Gautier-Dagoty, and Louis Bonvallet, c.1781

Engraved oval portrait of a man in a powdered wig and lace jabot, labeled F. Boucher, in a decorative frame.

Francois Boucher

Engraved oval scene of a seated woman sketching while two children wind yarn, framed by a hand-colored ivy and ribbon garland

Seated Woman Sketching a Design for Embroidery and Children Winding Yarn

Unknown artist, early 1780s?

Engraved oval portrait of Laurent Cars in a powdered wig and period coat, with an inscribed cartouche below.

Laurent Cars

Simon Charles Miger after Jean-Baptiste Perronneau

Hand-colored engraving of a couple embracing in a tavern kitchen while a fiddler and onlookers watch.

Histoire de Manon Lescaut (volume I)

Antoine-Francois Prévost and Louis-Joseph Lefevre and Various Artists, published 1797

Oval engraving of a seated woman embroidering with a cupid above, framed by a hand-colored floral garland and ribbon.

Seated Woman Embroidering

Unknown artist, early 1780s?

Grey wash drawing of a couple embracing by a fireplace while servants watch, with a dog on the floor and a caption below.

Nous n'avons pas le patience d'attendre que nous fussions seuls

Louis-Joseph Lefevre, published 1797

Engraved portrait of a man with curly hair in a fur-trimmed coat, holding a brush beside a drawing board, with French verse b

Figures de différents caractères, de Paysages, et d'Etudes dessinées d'après nature par Antoine Watteau (volume I)

Various Artists after Antoine Watteau, c. 1726

Engraving of musicians and women gathered outdoors in a wooded clearing, a guitarist and flautist among trees.

Le concert agreable

Charles Nicolas Varin after Nicolas Lavreince