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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Watercolor sketch of a state carriage in procession with mounted guards in plumed helmets and liveried attendants.

The Duchess of Kent's State Carriage

Constantin Guys

Watercolor of gondola moorings and a sunlit Venetian palazzo along the Grand Canal, with a gondola and mooring poles.

Gondola Moorings on the Grand Canal

John Singer Sargent, 1904/1907

Hand-colored print of two nightjars and two chicks resting on sandy heathland with pink heather flowers.

Caprimulgus europaeus (Nightjar)

John Gould and H.C. Richter

Hand-colored print of two quail, one brown and speckled, one grey with a striped head, standing among grass on bare ground.

Malacoturnix superciliosus (Mountain Quail)

John Gould and H.C. Richter

Hand-colored print of four barnacle geese on a grassy shoreline beside a pool, one standing prominently in the foreground.

Barnacle Goose (Bernicla Leucopsis)

Joseph Wolf and H.C. Richter

Hand-coloured print of a male ring-necked pheasant on snow beside a branch, with two females and another male behind.

Phasianus colchicus (Ring-necked Pheasant)

John Gould and W. Hart

Etching of a cloaked man raising a sword over a crowd, with a limp figure carried by others in the foreground.

Disparate conocido (Well-Known Folly)

Francisco Goya, in or after 1816

Engraved landscape of a dense forest with two small figures on a path, a river, and a distant town under clouds.

Landscape with the Temptation of Christ

Hieronymus Cock after Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1554

Engraving of a bearded man tending a wounded man seated by a stone bank, with a horse and dog in a rocky landscape.

The Good Samaritan

Jean-Marie Delatre and Simon Francois Ravenet I after William Hogarth, 1772

Engraving of The Pool of Bethesda: a haloed figure gestures to sick people beneath a hovering angel, among trees and ruined a

The Pool of Bethesda

Simon Francois Ravenet I and Victor Marie Picot after William Hogarth, 1772

Brown ink and wash drawing of towering rock formations, a hilltop castle with a tower, and a distant hazy valley.

The Fantastic Rocks and Castle at Bomarzo [recto]

Bartholomeus Breenbergh, 1625

Grey wash drawing of a rearing white horse, a turbaned rider, and panicked soldiers and horses, with a distant battle.

The Defeat of Sennacherib

Pieter Soutman, 1618

Brown wash drawing of a chaotic lion hunt with hunters on horseback, spears raised, and lions attacking.

Lion Hunt

Pieter Soutman, 1615

Pen and wash drawing of soldiers on horseback with trumpets and foot soldiers carrying a head on poles before a distant city.

The Triumph of David

Style of Jan Luyken, c. 1700

Oval brown ink and wash drawing of a nude woman with a wreath, a child, a centaur, and a bust on a pedestal under laurel.

Antique Subject

Style of Angelica Kauffmann

Pen and ink drawing of a seated nude warrior with a sword, skull, lion, and classical ruins, by Maerten van Heemskerck.

Simeon the Patriarch

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1549

Grey wash drawing of a market scene with a seated woman, a barrel, wooden wheels, figures in hats, and a bird on the ground.

Market Scene

Unknown artist, 17th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of Christ in a triumphal chariot pulled by a lion, with kneeling figures, clergy and a crowd.

The Triumph of Christ

attributed to Bartolomeo Roverio

Title page of a gothic-lettered 19th-century print, Auch ein Todtentanz, by Alfred Rethel, with verse and publisher details.

Auch ein Todtentanz: Title Page

Alfred Rethel, 1849

Woodcut of a skeleton holding scales above a tavern table, with a crowd, a horse, and a sign reading Freiheit Gleichheit Brüd

Auch ein Todtentanz III

Alfred Rethel, 1849

Woodcut print of a skeleton Death figure with allegorical women, a horse, scales and hooded figures, with German verses below

Auch ein Todtentanz I

Alfred Rethel, 1849

Woodcut of a skeleton holding a flag atop a barricade among fallen revolutionaries, with smoke and German verse below.

Auch ein Todtentanz V

Alfred Rethel, 1849

Woodcut by Alfred Rethel, 1849: a skeleton Death rides a white horse over fallen bodies in a city street with soldiers and a

Auch ein Todtentanz VI

Alfred Rethel, 1849

Woodcut print of a man raising a sword labeled Volks Justiz above a crowd and fallen bodies in a city street.

Auch ein Todtentanz IV

Alfred Rethel, 1849

Woodcut of a skeletal death rider with a scythe galloping past crows toward a walled city with church spires.

Auch ein Todtentanz II

Alfred Rethel, 1849

Printed German verse in blackletter type, set in two columns on aged cream paper with light staining.

Auch ein Todtentanz: Text Page

Alfred Rethel, 1849

Etching of a Venetian canal with a domed church, brick buildings, small boats, and figures on the shore under cloudy sky.

Imaginary View of Venice

Canaletto, 1741

Red chalk drawing of an oval fountain in a wooded garden with tall trees, seated figures, and a statue on a terrace.

The Oval Fountain in the Gardens of the Villa d'Este, Tivoli

Hubert Robert, 1760

Engraving of the Adoration of the Shepherds with the Virgin and infant Christ, shepherds, a donkey and a landscape.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Giovanni Britto after Titian, c. 1532/1533

Engraving of a wounded man mourned by kneeling women beneath trees, with a hunter and dogs at right.

The Death of Adonis

Léon Davent after Luca Penni