New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome and Firefox. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome Add to Firefox

National Gallery of Art

25,761 works

Etching of a canal with tall trees on the left, moored barges, and a factory with smokestacks and rising smoke on the right.

The Brussels Canal, A Modern Hobbema

Joseph Pennell, 1910

Etching of a straight avenue lined with tall poplars, railway tracks, power poles and distant factory chimneys.

The Avenue, Valenciennes

Joseph Pennell, 1910

Etching of an industrial mine entrance with smokestacks, wooden trestles, a water tower, rail tracks and small figures.

Mouth of the Mine, Ruhrort near Oberhausen

Joseph Pennell, 1910

Etching of industrial cranes, rail tracks and smokestacks along a river harbor, with two seated figures in the foreground.

Cranes at Duisburg

Joseph Pennell, 1910

Etching of the Venice campanile wrapped in scaffolding, seen through an arch with three flags and a crowd in the square below

Rebuilding the Campanile, Venice, No.I

Joseph Pennell, 1911

Etching of the scaffolded Campanile tower in Venice beside an ornate palazzo, with pedestrians in the square below.

Rebuilding the Campanile, Venice, No.II

Joseph Pennell, 1911

Etching of a busy city avenue seen from above, with tall ornate skyscrapers, domed towers, and a hatched sky.

Golden Cornice, No.II

Joseph Pennell, 1915

Etching of a river with ships and a suspension bridge before a dense city skyline under a cloudy sky.

Sunset, from Williamsburg Bridge

Joseph Pennell, 1915

Etching of the Woolworth Building's tall Gothic tower above a city street with lower buildings, a bare tree, and pedestrians.

The Woolworth Building

Joseph Pennell, 1915

Etching of a ferry landing framed by timber beams, with a figure at the pier and a hazy city skyline across the river.

The Ferry House

Joseph Pennell, 1919

Etching of pedestrians and a streetcar passing under an arched viaduct toward the ornate facade of Grand Central Terminal.

The Approach to the Grand Central, New York

Joseph Pennell, 1919

Etching of a crowded concourse with arched windows, columns, and a central clock, with people in early 20th-century dress.

Concourse, Grand Central, New York

Joseph Pennell, 1919

Etching of stone arches of a ferry terminal framing a view of the river and steamboats with smokestacks in the distance.

Within the Ferry, Cortlandt Street, New York

Joseph Pennell, 1919

Etching of a crowded monumental hall with arched windows, columns, and a central staircase.

The Marble Hall, Pennsylvania Station, New York

Joseph Pennell, 1919

Etching of a steel truss bridge over a river, with a smoky city skyline and smokestacks on the far bank.

The City Bridge, St. Louis

Joseph Pennell, 1919

Etching of a steam train crossing a tall stone viaduct above a village street lined with trees and houses.

The Viaduct, D., L. & W. at Nicholson, Pa

Joseph Pennell, 1919

Etching of a historic two-story building on a cobbled street with pedestrians in top hats and tall trees.

Fourth Street, Meeting House, Philadelphia

Joseph Pennell, 1920

Etching of a crowded open-air market with covered stalls, pedestrians, rooftops, a church steeple, and overhead wires.

Second Street Market, Philadelphia

Joseph Pennell, 1920

Etching of the Brooklyn Bridge towering over a crowded city street with tenements, an elevated railway and small pedestrians.

The Bridges, from Brooklyn

Joseph Pennell, 1921

Etching of Charing Cross Bridge over the Thames with a train, trees, boats, and a London skyline with spires.

London over Charing Cross Bridge

Joseph Pennell, 1910

Etching of a river city skyline with a tall shot tower, bridge arches, moored barges, and sailing boats on the water.

Shot Tower between the Bridges

Joseph Pennell, 1910

Etching of a river with tugboats and sailboats, a distant city skyline with spires, and docks along the right bank.

Williamsburg from the Bridge (Sketch)

Charles A. Platt, 1889

Etched portrait of an older woman in a lace bonnet and ruffled collar, looking toward the viewer.

Suzanna Rose

Paul Adolphe Rajon, 1875

Sepia mezzotint portrait of a seated man in a wig holding a cup, with a factory and smoking chimneys behind him.

Matthew Boulton, F.R.S.

Samuel William Reynolds I, 1796

Hand-colored print of a horse race on a curving track, with jockeys, carriages, a crowd of spectators, and hills behind.

Racing

Thomas Rowlandson, probably 1812

Hand-colored caricature of an officer escorting a stout woman in green through a street, watched by two onlookers.

The Successful Fortune Hunter

Thomas Rowlandson, 1812

Hand-colored etching of a gouty man in an armchair attended by a woman, with servants and a sleeping dog in the room.

Comfort in the Gout

Thomas Rowlandson, 1785

Pen and wash sketch of three standing women with faint architectural and figure studies around them on aged paper.

Copy After a Historical Painting from the Circle of Paolo Veronese [recto]

Unknown artist, 16th century

Etching of a blacksmith working at an anvil in a dim workshop with a brick forge and window light.

The Blacksmith's Shop

Etching of a young child bent over a table writing on paper, lit by a window in a dark interior.

The Little Student

J. Alden Weir, 1890

Etching of sailing ships on choppy sea before a mountainous coast with small buildings on the cliffs and clouds above.

Harbor Scene with Mountainous Background

Reinier Nooms, probably c. 1656

Engraved frontispiece with French text in a scrolled cartouche, a winged cherub head at top, and crosses in the corners.

Frontispiece for Callot's "The New Testament"

Abraham Bosse, 1635

Etching of a haloed youth gesturing among seated and standing bearded men inside a columned temple beneath a draped canopy.

Christ Disputing with the Doctors

Jacques Callot, 1635

Etching of a haloed figure preaching from a fishing boat to a crowd on shore, with fishermen working nets and a city in the d

Fisher of Men

Jacques Callot, 1635

Etching of Jesus gesturing to Pharisees as disciples pick grain in a field beneath trees, with a distant landscape and ruins.

Jesus with the Pharisees

Jacques Callot, 1635

Etching of Jesus seated on a hill teaching twelve haloed apostles beneath a large tree and rocky cliffs.

Sermon on the Mount

Jacques Callot, 1635

Etching of Christ with a kneeling woman in a columned hall, surrounded by robed figures and spear-carrying soldiers.

Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery

Jacques Callot, 1635

Etching of a colonnaded temple interior where a haloed figure stands among a crowd as men gather stones from the floor.

Stoning of Jesus

Jacques Callot, 1635

Etching of Jesus raising Lazarus from a cave tomb as a crowd of onlookers gathers around.

Raising of Lazarus

Jacques Callot, 1635

Etching of Jesus riding a donkey into Jerusalem as a crowd with palm branches welcomes him, city walls behind.

The Entry into Jerusalem

Jacques Callot, 1635

Etching of Jesus among robed men in a colonnaded hall, with a figure in a feathered hat and a seated elder with a cane.

Caesar's Coin

Jacques Callot, 1635

Etching of soldiers fighting near a fortified hill while a divine light breaks through clouds above.

Conversion of Paul

Jacques Callot, 1635

King Ferdinand of Austria

Unknown artist, 1547

Engraving of a three-masted warship in rough seas, with winged figures falling through sunlight above and a sea monster below

Armed Three-Master with Daedalus and Icarus in the Sky

Frans Huys after Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Engraving of an armed three-masted ship with full sails beside a galley on rough open sea.

Armed Three-Master on the Open Sea, Accompanied by a Galley

Frans Huys after Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Engraving of a triumphal procession with a chariot, robed figures with scrolls, angels in clouds, and a crowned eagle below.

The Triumph of the Virgin

Jacques Callot, 1625

Engraving of a seated governess admonishing a standing young boy in an interior with a racket and shuttlecock on the floor.

La Gouvernante

Bernard Lépicié after Jean Siméon Chardin, 1739

Engraving of a schoolmistress pointing at alphabet cards for a child in a cap, seated at a wooden table.

La Maitresse d'ecole

Bernard Lépicié after Jean Siméon Chardin, 1740

Engraving of a seated woman sewing with a young girl beside her, a spinning wheel and pug dog in the foreground.

La Mere laborieuse

Bernard Lépicié after Jean Siméon Chardin, 1740

Daumier lithograph of three men crowded at a cluttered library table beside tall bookshelves and a ladder.

Monsieur, pardon si je vous gêne un peu...

Honoré Daumier, 1844

Dürer's 1526 print of the Holy Family on a grassy bench, with the Virgin, Christ Child, an elderly man, and putti.

The Holy Family on a Grassy Bench

Albrecht Dürer, 1526

Pencil sketch of two men, one shouting in the other's face while holding a hat, on a pale sheet.

Two Men Arguing

Pencil and wash drawing of a foreshore with a windmill, moored boats, workers and sailing vessels under a cloudy sky.

Foreshore Scene with Windmill

Jan van Goyen, 1653

Woodcut print of robed figures in a procession beside arches and a rocky hillside, with a child reaching toward an old man.

Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple [left plate]

John Baptist Jackson after Titian, 1742

Engraving of the Presentation of the Virgin, with a girl climbing temple steps toward a priest while a crowd and balcony onlo

Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple [center plate]

John Baptist Jackson after Titian, 1742

Engraving of a girl climbing temple steps toward a robed priest, with Corinthian columns and onlookers, plus a heraldic crest

Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple [right plate]

John Baptist Jackson after Titian, 1742

Engraving of the Virgin and Child in clouds with angels and a dove above, and six saints standing below in a niche.

The Virgin in Clouds and Six Saints

John Baptist Jackson after Titian, 1742

Monochrome print of a martyrdom in a forest, with an angel descending above two attackers and a fallen man beneath tall trees

The Death of Saint Peter Martyr

John Baptist Jackson after Titian, 1739

Monochrome print of the Virgin and Child with a crowned saint, surrounded by angels, musicians and putti under draped curtain

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine

John Baptist Jackson after Veronese, 1740

Black and white print of the Holy Family with four saints, the Virgin and Child above a pedestal, draped curtain behind.

Holy Family and Four Saints

John Baptist Jackson after Veronese, 1739

Black and white print of a grand Renaissance-style wedding banquet with columns, balustrades, musicians, and seated guests.

The Marriage at Cana [left plate]

John Baptist Jackson after Veronese, 1740

Black and white print of soldiers on horseback and men hauling ropes across a rocky landscape with a distant city.

The Crucifixion [left plate]

John Baptist Jackson after Jacopo Tintoretto, 1741

Black and white print of the Crucifixion with Christ on a cross, mourners below, and men hauling ropes beside a horse.

The Crucifixion [center plate]

John Baptist Jackson after Jacopo Tintoretto, 1741

Black and white print of mounted soldiers, horses, and a dog beneath trees, with a distant landscape and dramatic sky.

The Crucifixion [right plate]

John Baptist Jackson after Jacopo Tintoretto, 1741