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National Gallery of Art

14,495 works

Painted study of a polished brass candlestick with a turned stem and stepped octagonal base on cream paper.

Candlestick

Mina Lowry, c. 1939

Watercolor textile design with a central rose wreath, brown eagles, scattered multicolored stars, and floral garland borders.

Texile

George Loughridge, c. 1940

Watercolor and pencil drawing of a pale blue glass bowl with a flared rim and scalloped base on cream paper.

Bowl

John Dana, c. 1940

Watercolor drawing of a teal glass sugar bowl with a domed lid and garland swags on its body, signed P. Johnson.

Sugar Bowl

Philip Johnson, c. 1940

Engraving of Saturn, a bearded nude god holding a scythe and an infant, within an ornate oval cartouche frame.

Saturn

Jacob Matham, 1597

Engraving of allegorical nude figures representing the four elements, with a sun god, wheat, clouds and a distant castle.

The Four Elements

Jacob Matham, 1588

Engraving of two nude male figures embracing and kissing, one holding a torch, against a rocky landscape with a tree.

Eros and Anteros

Jacob Matham, 1588

Engraving of Venus, Bacchus and Ceres with a cupid holding grapes, a barrel, fruit and a tree in a landscape.

Venus, Bacchus, and Ceres

Jacob Matham, 1588

Watercolor and pencil study of wall painting borders with flowers, geometric meander, rosettes and handwritten color notes.

Wall Painting

Edward Jewett, c. 1939

Engraving of a richly dressed woman holding a feathered mirror in an arched niche, with Latin verse below.

Pride

Engraving of a standing woman with a hammer beside a tent where a man lies sleeping, with a hilly landscape behind.

Jael and Sisera

Jacob Matham, 1588

Woodcut of Saint Jerome seated nearby a lion in a wooded landscape, with a crucifix against a tree and a castle beyond.

Saint Jerome in the Desert

Hans Baldung Grien, 1511

Woodcut of three archers shooting at a round target while a young man in a fur-trimmed robe stands watching in a forest clear

The Young White King at the Butts

Leonhard Beck, 1514/1516

Pen and brown ink sketch of a seated woman with curled hair and puffed sleeves in a high-backed chair.

Sketch of a Woman

Richard Parkes Bonington, 1828

Engraving of Saint Peter with halo, holding a key, in heavy drapery, with a plant and tablet at his feet.

Saint Peter

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia, c. 1507

Engraved print of an ornate footed cup with scrolling foliage on the bowl and grotesque masks on the base.

Cup

Wenzel Jamnitzer

Engraving of an ornate ewer with a trident-bearing Neptune figure, sea creatures on the bowl, and a dragon-headed spout.

Jar with Neptune

Wenzel Jamnitzer

Etching of a standing nude woman with raised arm, a small nude child beside her, and a figure seen from behind at right.

Woman and Child (Weib und Kind)

Wilhelm Lehmbruck, 1914

Etching of a crowned, cloaked figure surrounded by pale elongated women and spectral faces, with sweeping hatched lines.

Macbeth V (The Vision of Lady Macbeth)

Wilhelm Lehmbruck, 1918

Engraving of a bearded saint with halo holding a book and knife, standing in a heavy draped robe on a tiled floor.

Saint Bartholomew

Master FVB, c. 1490/1500

Engraving of a bearded saint in long draped robes holding an open book and an upright sword.

Saint Paul

Master FVB, c. 1490/1500

Engraving of a haloed saint holding a chalice, with a blessing gesture and flowing robes, c. 1480/1490.

Saint John the Evangelist

Master i.e., c. 1480/1490

Dark ink frontispiece showing a clock-like form with a small pale face and flowers on top, surrounded by hatched shading.

Couverture - Frontispice

Odilon Redon, 1890

Les Fleurs du Mal

Odilon Redon, 1890

Je t'adore a l'egal de la voute nocturne. O vase de tristesse, o grande taciturne (I adore you as I adore the vault o…

Odilon Redon, 1890

Etching of a seated figure emerging from a dark base, wrapped in swirling lines beneath a large flask-like shape.

Parfois on trouve un vieux flacon qui se souvient, d'ou jaillit toute vive une ame qui revient (Sometimes one finds a…

Odilon Redon, 1890

Dark monochrome print of a pale tomb in an arched recess, with a floating ghostly head and a drifting coffin above.

Si par une nuit lourde et sombre, un bon chretien, par charite, derriere quelque vieux decombre, enterre votre corps…

Odilon Redon, 1890

Sketch-like lithograph of a nude woman standing by a bed with a hooded figure and draped curtains in a dim interior.

Volupte, Fantome Elastique! (Pleasure, elastic phantom!)

Odilon Redon, 1890

Dreamlike lithograph of floating faces, a large eye and shadowy heads on a dark grainy background.

Sur le fond de nos nuits dieu de son doigt savant dessine un cauchemar multiforme et sans treve (On backdrop of our n…

Odilon Redon, 1890

Dark etching of two seated figures on a rocky ledge beneath a cliff, facing a glowing moon with radiating strokes.

Sans cesse a mes cotes s'agite le demon (Ceaselessly by my side the demon stirs)

Odilon Redon, 1890