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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Brown wash drawing of cows by a river with trees on the left and a distant town skyline under a pale sun.

Landscape

Anthonie van Borssom

Etching of a farmyard with a thatched cottage, a rider on horseback, sheep, a pond and figures under a cloudy sky.

The Farmyard

Rodolphe Bresdin, published 1861

Engraved landscape of a river valley with mountains, villages, and a large tree framing workers in the foreground.

Solicitudo Rustica (Rustic Concerns)

Johannes and Lucas van Doetechum after Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1555/1557

Etching of a river valley with a hilltop castle, rocky cliffs, tall trees, boats, and small figures under a cloudy sky.

S. Hieronymus in Deserto (Saint Jerome in the Desert)

Johannes and Lucas van Doetechum after Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1555/1557

Etching of a receding city street with turbaned figures in robes, guards with halberds, and classical buildings flanking the

Il Solimano, Act I

Jacques Callot, 1620

Etching of a classical city street with a procession of costumed figures in plumed headdresses toward a distant arch.

Il Solimano, Act II

Jacques Callot, 1620

Etching of a stage-like city street with classical buildings, statues, armed guards, and figures in Ottoman-style dress.

Il Solimano, Act III

Jacques Callot, 1620

Etching of a city street with classical buildings, costumed figures in turbans in front, and spear-carrying guards on both si

Il Solimano, Act IV

Jacques Callot, 1620

Etching of a burning city street with fleeing crowds, armed soldiers, and dead bodies beneath billowing smoke.

Il Solimano, Act V

Jacques Callot, 1620

Pointillist print of cypress trees, sailboats in a bay, and women in white dresses on a sunlit slope.

La Promenade

Henri-Edmond Cross, 1897

Pen and ink drawing of a river landscape with trees on both banks, cattle wading in the water, and a small boat.

Pennsylvania Landscape

Mezzotint of an iron forge at night with workers, a water wheel, and women and children beside molten metal.

An Iron Forge

Richard Earlom after Joseph Wright, 1773

Narrow etching of a landscape with a brook, bridge, ruined walls, large tree trunks and distant hills, dated 1545.

Landscape with a Brook and Ruins

Augustin Hirschvogel, 1545

Pen and watercolor drawing of a stone castle tower with ruined walls, an arched gateway, and two figures on a path.

Roslin Castle

Paul Sandby, in or after 1780

Watercolor of the West Gate at Canterbury with round towers, timber houses, a footbridge, a large tree and small figures.

West Gate at Canterbury

Paul Sandby, in or after 1780

Pen drawing on red paper with white highlights: a crowned bearded head, a woman with loose hair, a lamb, and a dove.

Studies of Sudarium and Saint Agnes

Attributed to Tobias Stimmer

Watercolor landscape of a river with a rowboat, cattle, village buildings, and wooded hills under a pale sky.

Italian Landscape with a Boating Party

Louis Gabriel Moreau

Brown wash drawing of a garden with tall pine trees, a ladder, statues, a balustrade, figures and cattle.

Gardens of an Italian Villa (Villa Medici?)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1773/1774

Pen and wash drawing of a rustic farmhouse interior with a seated woman, a child, a cat, and a figure on stairs.

Interior of a Farmhouse with Figures

Attributed to Hubert Robert, late 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of a rural farmyard with a thatched cottage, a cow, barrels, seated figures and trees.

Farm Scene

I Jean-Baptiste Hüet, 1779

Red chalk sketch of two seated women in flowing period dress, one holding a fan, drawn with loose hatched lines.

Two Seated Ladies

Nicolas Lancret

Watercolor of a thatched cottage among trees with wooden fences, barrels on a dirt path, and small figures under a blue sky.

Landscape

Louis Gabriel Moreau, probably c. 1780

Watercolor landscape of a whitewashed farmhouse, trees, a dirt road, and a stone monument under a pale blue sky.

Landscape

Louis Gabriel Moreau, late 1770s

Watercolor of strollers on a stone terrace in a park, with statues, trees and a blue mountain range in the distance.

Panoramic View across a Terraced Park

Louis Gabriel Moreau, 1780/1790

Watercolor drawing of a thatched mill beside a stream, with a wooden bridge, two figures, rowboats and trees.

Mill with Bridge and Figures

Louis Gabriel Moreau

Oval view of a formal lattice-fenced garden with a statue, a stone mansion at left, trees, and strolling figures under blue s

The Potager of the Hôtel de Valentinois in Passy

Nicolas Pérignon, c. 1780

Watercolor garden scene with ruined columns, figures on a seesaw, an arched bridge, pines and a seated statue.

The Seesaw

Style of Hubert Robert

Drawing of a seated woman and a man in a plumed hat on a sofa, with a cupid above and a flaming heart below.

Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette Crowned by Love

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1775

Grey wash drawing of a ruined arch and tower framing a harbor with ships and figures on steps.

Port Scene

Follower of Claude-Joseph Vernet

Engraving of the Holy Family resting in a wooded landscape with a donkey, river, town, and hills beneath clouds.

Fuga Deiparae in Aegyptum (The Flight into Egypt)

Johannes and Lucas van Doetechum after Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1555/1557