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National Gallery of Art

5,752 works

Brown ink drawing of allegorical figures crowning a bust with garlands beside classical columns and a temple.

Virtues Crowning the Bust of Canova

Michele Sangiorgi, 1812

Graphite and chalk drawing of a seated male nude with one arm raised overhead, gripping a chair back, on grey paper.

Seated Male Nude with Raised Right Hand

William Linnell, c. 1845/1850

Waves crash against layered rocky cliffs under a hazy sky, with gulls flying over the churning sea.

South-West Point, Conanicut

William Trost Richards, 1878 / 1879

Watercolor of a colonnaded courtyard with a seated reader, a figure feeding pigeons in sunlight, and a tiled wall.

A Fakeer at the Door of a Mosque, Constantinople

John Frederick Lewis, 1863

Pencil sketch of two women in hats watching pheasants and birds behind a wire fence in a garden with trees.

Au Jardin d'Acclimatation (In the Zoological Garden)

Félix Bracquemond, 1870s

Graphite sketch of a frontal face with large eyes, broad nose and framing hair, numbered 32 in the lower right corner.

Self-Portrait

Lyubov Popova, 1910s

Graphite portrait of a woman with short hair and a dark cap, wearing a dark top with a ruffled collar, on tan paper.

Self-Portrait

Olga Rozanova, c. 1915

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded Hercules leaning on a club, with flowing drapery and a lion skin.

Hercules Leaning on His Club [recto]

Parri Spinelli, 1440

Watercolor of a thatched barn beside a pond, with a rider on a white horse wading in the water and geese at the bank.

The Old Barn, Arreton, Isle of Wight

Marie Spartali Stillman, probably 1890s

Colored pencil drawing of a harbor wharf with a ship, crane, lighthouse and a stylized dockworker smoking a pipe.

On the Wharf

Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, 1931

Portrait study of Pierre Louis Alexandre

Carl Frederick von Saltza, c.1890

Pencil portrait of a woman with bowed head, headwrap, chain necklace and clasped hands, dated 1704.

Half-length portrait of a Young Black Man

Anna Waser, 1704

Charcoal drawing of a gaunt woman, a sad child, and a hooded figure with outstretched hand against a dark background.

Beggars

Käthe Kollwitz, 1924

Drawing of plowed fields with blossoming trees and two bent figures working in the foreground under a cloudy sky.

Spring

Louis Auguste Lepère, probably 1909

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bald, bearded elderly man looking up and to the right.

Head of a Bald Man with a Beard

Alphonse Legros, 1906

Charcoal drawing of a woman with a bundle, a boy in a cap, and a girl with a basket before a ruined building.

C'est ici, chez nous!

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, 1916

Brown ink sketch of sailors working rigging on a ship deck, with seated figures and a faint sea horizon behind them.

At Sea

James McNeill Whistler, probably 1901

Sketch of a weary standing woman leaning on a wall beside a seated man in a hat, drawn in charcoal and ink.

At the Peace Conference

Jean-Louis Forain, c. 1919

Charcoal drawing of a man seated at a desk with an inkwell and quill, head bowed in thought, by Jean-Louis Forain.

A Versailles juillet 1919

Jean-Louis Forain, probably 1919

Loose charcoal sketch of two bearded men at a table, one seated writing, one standing and smiling.

À la conférence (At the Conference)

Jean-Louis Forain, c. 1919

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a woman in a red headscarf and long dress standing by a rock, with a sketched building behin

La France attend (France Waits)

Jean-Louis Forain, c. 1914/1919

France Watching

Jean-Louis Forain, c. 1914/1919

M. Clemenceau. La lettre du Cte Czernin

Jean-Louis Forain, c. 1914/1919

Charcoal caricature of two men beside a table piled with top hats and bowler hats, with a French caption below.

C'est la Paix. Tu vois pas un kepi!

Jean-Louis Forain, c. 1919

Embroidered sampler with a verse titled Procrastination, a floral border, trees, flower baskets and the name Mary R. Wallace.

Sampler

Max Unger, c. 1941

Painted study of a yellow quilted silk fabric with diamond quilting and raised floral and scroll embroidery.

Quilting on Silk (Detail)

Edward Jewett, c. 1940

Embroidered floral motif on linen with blue star flower, red carnation, pink buds and golden stems.

Bed Hanging (Detail)

Martha Elliot, c. 1939

Watercolor of two embroidered linen cuffs with blue and green floral designs and blue ribbon bands on a pale background.

Linen Cuffs

Isabella Ruth Doerfler, 1935/1942

Embroidery on linen with a central flowering vine, a blue bird, a parrot on a branch, and a brown horse below.

Embroidery

Isabella Ruth Doerfler, c. 1940

Two drawn views of an embroidered purse with floral and urn motifs in pink, blue, and gold thread, with tassels.

Embroidered Purse

Isabella Ruth Doerfler, c. 1941