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National Gallery of Art

5,752 works

Pencil sketch of layered hills and mountains with trees and a hilltop village under a pale sky.

The Sabine Hills and Rocca Santo Stefano Seen from Civitella

Ludwig Richter, c. 1824

Watercolor interior of a paneled music room with a green tiled stove, grand piano, blue sofa, and mountain view through windo

The Music Room of Archduchess Margarete, Princess of Saxony, in Schloss Ambras

Heinrich von Förster, 1870s

Pen and grey wash drawing of a standing man in a feathered hat beside an ornate blank coat of arms with scrollwork.

A Donor with a Coat of Arms (Schildbegleiter und Wappenschild mit Schrägbalken)

Hans Jegli II, 1603

Red chalk drawing of robed figures burying the dead beside a stone tomb, framed by trees and classical architecture.

Tobit Burying the Dead

after Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione Antoine Watteau, c. 1710

Pencil drawing of a seated woman in a lace-trimmed gown and wide hat, playing a cittern and gazing upward.

Woman Playing a Cittern

Nathaniel Dance-Holland, c. 1770

Brown wash drawing of a seated woman with a child under a tree, a kneeling man, a grazing donkey, and a river landscape.

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Hans Rottenhammer, 1596/1598

Misty watercolor woodland with slender trees, a dirt path, and a bright opening of light through green foliage.

June

Roswell Morse Shurtleff, c.1910

Pen and wash drawing of a symmetrical baroque fountain facade with arches, obelisks, statues, and a horse-topped urn.

Study for "The Seconda Macchina for the Chinea of 1754: An Allegory of Waterworks"

Paolo Posi, 1754

Pen drawing of an octagonal tower with a flag and statues, flanked by pedestal figures, a fountain and a column.

Study for "The Seconda Macchina for the Chinea of 1753: The Quarters of the Royal Militia"

Paolo Posi, 1753

Brown ink drawing of a vaulted hall with classical columns, statues, and a smoking altar at the far end.

A Monumental Vaulted Hall with a Smoking Altar

Luigi Tasca, 1813/1814

Watercolor of a tall rock pillar beside turbulent river rapids and boulders, with hazy canyon cliffs under a pale sky.

Tower at Tower Falls, Yellowstone

Thomas Moran, 1872

Pen and wash drawing of Mercury with winged helmet embracing Psyche, standing on a stone pedestal.

Mercury Abducting Psyche

after Jan Muller Michael Philip I, 1652

Pencil study of two hands gripping a staff and a riding crop or glove, with sleeve sketched above, on tan paper.

A Left Hand Holding a Staff and a Right Hand Holding a Glove and Riding Crop(?)

Paul Friedrich Meyerheim

Pen and wash drawing of the hilltop town of Ariccia with a domed church and arched aqueduct across a valley.

Ariccia Seen from across a Valley

August Christian Geist, 1866

Watercolor landscape of ruins on a rocky hill above a valley, with a wooden bridge, grazing cattle and a thatched cottage.

The Ruins of the Monastery of Oybin in the Zittau Mountains

Philipp Veith, 1792

Watercolor of three fisher women with baskets and a net on a rocky shore, with sailboats on a stormy sea.

Three Fisher Girls, Tynemouth

Winslow Homer, 1881

Wash drawing of a woman in a crinoline reading on a sandy beach beside a folding chair, with faint figures and sea behind her

Woman in a Crinoline on the Beach of Trouville

Eugène-Louis Boudin, c. 1865

Watercolor of a sunlit mountain valley with craggy cliffs and trees, with a seated man at lower right.

A Seated Man Contemplating a Sunlit Mountain Valley

Jakob Alt, c. 1825

Charcoal drawing of a man in a wide-brimmed hat with wavy hair, looking upward, by Michael Sweerts.

Jan van den Enden

Michiel Sweerts, c. 1651

Watercolor and ink drawing of a hunched blue figure beside a brown log against red and gray washes.

Hölzfaller (recto)

Wilhelm Morgner, 1913

Watercolor of a mounted soldier in blue uniform with a rifle, horse in a clearing, other cavalry riders among trees.

Chasseur à Cheval (Soldier on Horseback)

Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille, 1885

Pen and wash drawing of classical ruins, fallen columns, a wind-bent palm, and a river winding toward a distant mountain.

Antique Ruins along a Mountain Coast

Johann Franz Ermels, 1670s

Grey and white chalk drawing of forest treetops on blue-grey paper, with light striking the foliage on the right.

Forest Treetops Struck by Light

Heinrich Rieter, c. 1800

Pen and ink drawing of a hilltop church with a bell tower, cypress tree, and brick arches in the foreground.

The Church of S. Gregorio Magno on the Celian Hill (verso)

Antonie van den Wyngaerde, 1553

Pencil sketch of angular, loosely drawn figure forms on a yellowed sketchbook page with black ink scribble at bottom.

Dancers and Performers (Page from a Sketchbook)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, c. 1911

Pencil drawing of large oak trees beside a dirt road leading to a ruined stone tower on the Appian Way.

Oaks along the Appian Way near Albano

Jean-Paul Flandrin, 1834

Watercolor of a rocky beach at low tide with layered cliffs, a moored boat, and distant sailboats under cloudy sky.

The Rocky Beach and Cliffs at Fécamp

Edward William Cooke, mid-1830s

Brown ink drawing of an empty cartouche framed by a curtain, two female figures, theater mask garlands and an eagle with armo

A Cartouche with Theater Masks

Pierre Philippe Choffard

Monochrome drawing of a rider and dog beside a still pond with rocky banks, trees, and a bird in the sky.

A Rider by a Mountain Pond at Sunset

Adolphe Appian, 1870s

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of a youth with wavy hair turned three-quarter view on tan paper.

Portrait of a Youth

Vincenzo Gemito, 1923