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National Gallery of Art

25,761 works

Woodcut of the Crucifixion with Christ on a cross at right, two mourners below, rays of light and clouds in the sky.

The Crucifixion

Etching of a hilltop castle above houses and trees, with a radiating sun and distant mountains in the sky.

Landscape with a Castle and Radiating Sun

Hanns Lautensack, 1553

Engraving of two bearded men seated in a landscape, one holding an open book and the other gesturing, with a sword at their f

Saints Peter and Paul Seated in a Landscape

Lucas van Leyden, 1527

Engraving of the Lamentation: mourners hold the dead Christ beneath a cross, with a skull and crown of thorns in the foregrou

The Lamentation

Master BM, c. 1480/1490

Engraving of the Rest on the Flight into Egypt: Mary and Christ child with Joseph and angels before a rocky landscape.

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Master BM, c. 1480/1490

Engraving of the Virgin and Christ Child with Joseph and Magi bearing gifts inside a wooden shelter.

The Adoration of the Magi

Master E. S., c. 1460/1465

Engraving of an old peasant man with a staff beside a seated woman holding eggs, with a basket of eggs at their feet.

Peasant and Egg Woman

Agostino dei Musi after Raphael, c.1514-1536

Engraving of two winged nude cupid figures beside a tree trunk, with a shell at their feet and a landscape behind.

Two Loves

Agostino dei Musi after Raphael

Lithograph of a nude woman seen from behind beside geese under trees, drawn in loose grey crayon-like strokes.

Gardeuse d'oies nue (Nude Goose Girl)

Camille Pissarro, c. 1897

Etching of a standing man in a top hat and long overcoat holding a cane, with a dark smudge beside him.

Whistler

Carlo Pellegrini

Red chalk drawing of a young woman kneeling and reaching forward with outstretched arms, draped in loose cloth.

Young Woman Kneeling and Reaching Forward [verso]

Charles de La Fosse, 1698

Engraved oval portrait of a man with powdered wig and cravat, labeled J.J. Rousseau, after Maurice-Quentin de La Tour.

J.J. Rousseau

Augustin de Saint-Aubin after Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, 1777

Red chalk drawing of two seated young women in draped dress, with a hand study below and a partial figure at right.

Two Young Women Seated on the Ground [recto]

Charles de La Fosse, 1698

Red chalk drawing of the Virgin and Child appearing on clouds to a kneeling monk, with angels above.

The Vision of Simon Stock

Pietro da Pietri, 1680

Engraving of a gardener with a shovel, a boy watering plants, and a gentleman in a tricorn hat beside a large tree.

Chacun respecte le travail des autres, afin que le sien soit en sûreté

Pierre-Philippe Choffard after Jean-Michel Moreau, 1777/1779

Engraving of two men under a leaning tree gazing at a river valley, village and mountains beneath a cloudy sky.

La nature étaloit à nos yeux toute sa magnificence

Jean-Baptiste Blaise Simonet after Jean-Michel Moreau, 1778

Engraving of a thatched hut where feathered figures meet armed European men in plumed hats, with a palm tree outside.

La découverte du nouveau monde

Pierre Duflos after Jean-Michel Moreau

Engraving of a woman sealing a letter by candlelight while a man holds the candle, with a dog and curtain in the room.

Dame cachetant une lettre (Lady Sealing a Letter)

Etienne Fessard, 1738

Engraving of a dying woman in a canopy bed as a man and two women react in grief beside her.

Mort de Julie

Nicolas Delaunay after Jean-Michel Moreau

Engraving of a salon scene: a seated woman with a dog, a girl and boy beside a birdcage, with a title panel below.

La cage symbolique (The Symbolic Cage)

Etienne Fessard, 1738

Woodcut of two haloed saints, one with a pilgrim staff and one holding an arrow, in an arcade with mountains behind.

Saint Roch and Saint Sebastian

Hans Leonhard Schäufelein, 1510

Sepia oval portrait of an elderly man in a powdered wig, framed by an engraved laurel wreath with a ribbon at the base.

James Nares

William Ward, c. 1780-1810

Etched self-portrait of a man in a wide-brimmed hat and bow tie, with curly hair and mustache, by James McNeill Whistler.

Self-Portrait

James McNeill Whistler, 1859

Etching of a murky river with factory buildings and smokestacks on the far bank, with sailboats and a rowboat in the water.

The Troubled Thames

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1875

Etching of a shadowed arched passage with overhanging branches, opening onto a sunlit quay with a small seated figure.

The Traghetto, No.I

James McNeill Whistler, 1879/1880

Engraving of the Virgin holding the Christ Child on a crescent, surrounded by radiating lines and a halo, dated 1520.

The Virgin and Child on the Crescent

Sebald Beham, 1520

Brown-toned drawing of a bearded older man with lowered eyes, lit by white chalk highlights on a warm ground.

Head of a Man, Full Face

Alphonse Legros

Brown ink and wash drawing of a stormy forest with two figures, one kneeling and one reclining, beneath bending trees.

Clap of Thunder [recto]

Alphonse Legros

Drawing of a bearded man's head and shoulders in black chalk and colored crayon on orange paper, gazing forward.

Head of a Man (Possible Portrait of Professor E.D. Adams)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a winged figure leaning toward a seated cupid-like child against hatched shadows.

Mab and Cupid (Mab et Cupidon)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a cloaked man seated beside an overturned wooden cart with a broken wheel on grassy ground.

Broken Cart (La charette brisee)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of an elderly man seated with bowed head beneath a large, shadowed bare tree with spreading branches.

Old man, Old Tree (Vieil homme, vieil arbre)

Alphonse Legros

Color woodcut of waves breaking on a shore, with a dark boat and figures at left under a cloudy sky.

Unfurled Waves, Flood of September 1901 (Les lames deferlent,maree de Septembre 1901)

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1901

Woodcut of the risen Christ on a tomb holding a banner, with sleeping armored soldiers below and a tree and castle in the bac

The Resurrection

Lucas Cranach the Elder, in or before 1509

Woodcut of the Entombment of Christ, with mourners lowering the body into a stone tomb beneath an angel and trees.

The Entombment

Lucas Cranach the Elder, in or before 1509

Engraving of a gnarled tree beside a rock arch, with a mountain and distant town in the valley below.

The Gate in the Rocks

Hanns Lautensack, 1554

Woodcut of Christ carrying the cross, crowned with thorns, among armored soldiers and a crowd in an arched hall.

Christ Bearing the Cross

Lucas Cranach the Elder, in or before 1509

Woodcut of nude Christ with crown of thorns displayed to a crowd and armored soldiers before a banner-hung wall.

Ecce Homo

Lucas Cranach the Elder, in or before 1509

Brown ink drawing of a hunched figure carrying a bundle on a path beside trees, with a glowing sun behind clouds at dusk.

Landscape, Evening

Alphonse Legros

Etched portrait of a bearded man in a jacket, with dark vertical hatching behind him and a signature at lower right.

Florestan Mionnet

Alphonse Legros

Etched portrait of an elderly bearded man seated in a buttoned jacket, hands resting on his knees.

Old man seated (Vieillard assis)

Alphonse Legros

Brown wash drawing of flat countryside with gnarled trees, two figures with a rake in the foreground, and a distant village.

View over Flat Country

Alphonse Legros, 1906

Pen and brown wash drawing of an elderly bearded man in a robe, seated and leaning forward, hands resting on a round object.

Beggar with Crutches

Alphonse Legros

Woodcut of two mercenaries with a skeleton in a tree above, a hourglass, a seated woman, and a town with mountains behind.

Two Mercenaries and a Woman

Engraved portrait of a bearded older man in a wide-brimmed hat and fur-trimmed robe, with a Latin caption below.

Josias Simler

Dietrich Meyer the Elder

Engraved print of the Lamentation: grieving figures support Christ's body beneath a cross inscribed INRI.

The Lamentation

Unknown artist, c. 1470/1480

Hand-colored print of Saint Maurice in armor holding a spear and a cross banner, with an inscription border and a landscape b

Saint Maurice

Unknown artist, c. 1480/1490

Engraving of Apollo dancing hand in hand with nine draped muses in a horizontal procession.

Apollo Dancing with the Nine Muses

Unknown artist

Illuminated manuscript initial showing a birth scene above and a haloed man with a book teaching a group below.

Birth and Naming of John the Baptist

Unknown artist, late 13th century

Illuminated initial with gold ground showing a bearded prophet in a red robe praying with clasped hands.

Praying Prophet

Lorenzo Monaco, 1410/1413

Woodcut bookplate with two winged putti holding a heraldic shield marked P S, inscribed PIERSANTI, in an ornate frame.

Two Putti with Shield Inscribed Pier Santi

Unknown artist, 16th century

Woodcut of Saint John the Baptist seated with a lamb, a cross-topped staff, an open book, and a haloed head against radiating

Saint John the Baptist

Hans Baldung Grien, 1517

Bird's-eye woodcut view of Venice with canals, rooftops, lagoon, distant mountains and wind heads in clouds.

View of Venice [upper left block]

Jacopo de' Barbari, 1500

Bird's-eye woodcut view of Venice and its lagoon with islands and boats, framed by Mercury and a wind figure in clouds.

View of Venice [upper center block]

Jacopo de' Barbari, 1500

Woodcut panorama of Venice and its lagoon, with small sailing boats and a cloud-borne wind head blowing across the water.

View of Venice [upper right block]

Jacopo de' Barbari, 1500

Bird's-eye print of Venice and its lagoon with ships, canals, gardens and cloud-puffing wind heads.

View of Venice [lower left block]

Jacopo de' Barbari, 1500

Bird's-eye woodcut view of Venice with crowded harbor ships, a trident-bearing sea figure, and a wind head in clouds.

View of Venice [lower center block]

Jacopo de' Barbari, 1500

Bird's-eye woodcut view of Venice's harbor with sailing ships, galleys, rowing boats and a cloud-filled sky.

View of Venice [lower right block]

Jacopo de' Barbari, 1500

Engraving of three women in robes facing a winged angel with a halo beside an open tomb, with two figures in the background.

The Three Marys at the Tomb

Jacques Bellange, c. 1612-1616

Engraving of the risen Christ with a banner rising above a cave, an angel, sleeping soldiers below, and women in veils at rig

The Resurrection

Philip Galle after Pieter Bruegel the Elder, possibly c. 1570

Engraving of the parable of the wise and foolish virgins: angels, a bridegroom in a Gothic hall, women with lamps and a spinn

The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins

Philip Galle after Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1560/1563

Print of a man in a fur-trimmed coat at a table with scales, a seated figure, barrels, and a monkey eating fruit.

Jan Uytenbogaert

Jan van der Bruggen after Rembrandt van Rijn

Etching of soldiers attacking villagers before a stone house with a sloping roof, with trees framing the street.

Scene of Pillage

Jacques Callot, c. 1633

Etching of soldiers looting a city square, with a church facade, a loaded cart, fallen figures and smoke over rooftops.

Destruction of a Convent

Jacques Callot, c. 1633