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National Gallery of Art

10,102 works

Monkeys dressed in human clothing work as sculptors around a marble bust in an outdoor workshop with a landscape behind.

Singerie: The Sculptor

Christophe Huet, c. 1739

Painting of a bearded man in red armour offering bread to an elder in gold robes, with soldiers, a horse and cherubs.

The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek

Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1626

Three men in feathered headdresses and fringed clothing hold a bow, a spear, and a staff against a pale sky.

Alaeutian Chief and Two Warriors

George Catlin, 1855/1869

Painting of a winding park path around an oval pond, tall trees, a white obelisk, and a couple in period dress.

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Thomas Chambers, mid 19th century

Naive painting of a steamboat, sailboats, a train, and geese flying over a rocky shoreline and green hillside.

Geese in Flight

Leila T. Bauman, 1850 or later

Three Indigenous figures on a grassy plain: a man with a staff, a central man in a pink blanket and feathered headdress, and

Cochimtee Chief, His Wife, and a Warrior

George Catlin, 1855/1869

Painting of a two-story church with a clock tower burning at night while a crowd watches and an American flag is raised.

Burning of Old South Church, Bath, Maine

John Hilling, c. 1854

Naive painting of a paddle steamer with smoke crossing a harbor, with a promenade, white house, and cliff tower.

U.S. Mail Boat

Leila T. Bauman, 1855 or later

Painting of a Mohave chief, a warrior, and a woman standing in an open landscape, in an oval frame.

Mohave Chief, a Warrior, and His Wife

George Catlin, 1855/1869

Painting of villagers skating and playing hockey on a frozen pond, with a sleigh, stone houses and snowy mountains behind.

Skating Scene

John Toole, c. 1835

Painting of a calico cat with two kittens playing with pink yarn beside a red ball of yarn and white lace.

Cat and Kittens

Unknown artist, c. 1872/1883

Painting of a woman and two Yuma men in feathered headdresses and beaded jewelry standing in a grassy landscape with hills.

A Yuma Chief, His Daughter, and a Warrior

George Catlin, 1855/1869

Painting of an ochre building framed by tall trees and angular branches, with blue hills and a rocky landscape behind it.

Château Noir

Paul Cézanne, 1900/1904

Anonymous late 18th-century group portrait of a family with seated parents, infants, children in white and blue, and a patter

The Cheney Family

Unknown artist, c. 1795

Painting of three standing Indigenous men in feathered headdresses, one holding a spear, within an oval frame.

Three Yumaya Indians

George Catlin, 1855/1869

Soft misty landscape painting with tall, faint trees dissolving into pale blue and pink haze over a meadow.

Morning Haze

Claude Monet, 1888

Folk painting of a family burial ground with white headstones, figures, and a river with a steamboat and hills beyond.

Family Burying Ground

Unknown artist, c. 1840

Painting of five Indigenous figures, including men in straw hats and a woman with a basket, in an open landscape.

Five Maya Indians

George Catlin, 1855/1869

Landscape painting of a ruined abbey by a river, with a distant town on rolling hills and trees framing the foreground.

Easby Abbey, near Richmond

George Cuitt the Younger, c. 1821/1854

Painting of a hillside village with about twenty-two houses, a white church steeple, picket fences, and bare trees under a cl

Twenty-two Houses and a Church

Unknown artist, mid 19th century

Oval painting of a mounted rider shooting a bow at a charging bison across a grassy plain.

Buffalo Chase

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of a naval battle with burning ships, smoke-filled sky, crowded boats and struggling sailors in choppy water.

The Battle of La Hogue

Benjamin West, 1778

Naive painting of a riverside village with Victorian houses, a church, steamboat, sailboats, and a hunter on the bank.

Village by the River

Unknown artist, fourth quarter 19th century

Painting of bison stampeding over plains as a hunter gallops behind, with a fallen rider and horse in the foreground.

Buffalo Chase, with Accidents

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Still life painting of a striped melon on a silver platter, a bowl of quinces, peaches, grapes, a rose, and a dark bottle on

Still Life with Melon and Peaches

Édouard Manet, c. 1866

Naive painting of a Civil War battle with cavalry, infantry, an American flag, smoke, and fallen soldiers and horses on a gre

Civil War Battle

Unknown artist, 1861 or after

Painting of a bison herd on open grassland, with a bow hunter and a rifle hunter in the lower right foreground.

Catlin and Indian Attacking Buffalo

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of a country house beyond a park with a tall conifer, strolling figures, and a dramatic cloudy sky.

Country House in a Park

Jacob van Ruisdael, c. 1675

Naive painting of a couple on a manor terrace overlooking a river with sailboats, a carriage, a rider and a fountain.

Leaving the Manor House

Unknown artist, c. 1850/1855

Bison herd on grassy prairie, one animal rolling in a mud wallow in the foreground beneath a cloudy sky.

A Buffalo Wallow

George Catlin, 1861/1869