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National Gallery of Art

5,752 works

Pen and ink sketch of a rocky coastline with hatched cliffs, calm water, and wispy clouds above.

The Coast

Alfred Thompson Bricher, 1870-1900

Pencil sketch of Saint George fighting a dragon inside a circular medal design, signed Flaxman in the lower right.

Design for a Medal Representing Saint George and the Dragon

John Flaxman, c. 1800?

Brown ink drawing of Saint Jerome kneeling beside a lion in a rocky landscape with a cross and distant town.

Saint Jerome

Brown ink sketch of a bound winged child figure with studies of a head and limbs on a tan sheet.

Cupid Bound

Attributed to Raphael

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a young girl asleep on a pillow, wearing a flower crown and white nightgown.

A Girl on Her Deathbed with a Crown of Flowers

Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann, 1882

Pencil drawing of tall trees and willows beside a calm river with pebbled banks, by Frederick W. Watts, 1826.

Trees by the River at Castle Bromwich

Frederick William Watts, 1826

Brown ink and wash drawing of two winged putti flanking a sarcophagus with scrolled brackets, a palm frond and a wreath.

Study for a Reliquary Sarcophagus

Giovanni Odazzi

Charcoal drawing of a female figure in flowing drapery with outstretched arms, over a faint numbered grid.

A Muse

John Vanderlyn, 1815

Pencil sketch of a man in a checkered Pierrot-style costume with ruffled collar, arm raised, on tan paper.

Lepeintre Ainé in the Role of Paillasse

Tony Johannot, 1831

Pen drawing of three helmeted soldiers near a sleeping draped woman with cupids in trees, on two joined sheets.

Three Soldiers Discovering a Sleeping Woman

Raymond de Lafage

Pen and ink drawing of a seated gentleman in a wig beside a standing man in a tall hat leaning on a cane.

A Gardener and a Gentleman

Richard de Saint-Non, 1745

Pencil sketch of a heavenly Trinity scene with radiant light, clouds, and angels above kneeling figures on earth.

The Triumph of the Trinity (The Gloria)

Francesco Solimena

Watercolor plate of six numbered flatfish swimming over stylized blue water within a gold-ruled oval border.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXXIV

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Watercolor plate of five flatfish in blue water and sand, one pink fish tied with cord, numbered XXXV.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXXV

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Watercolor of five numbered fish, including an eel and a carp, swimming over a blue sea and sand within a gold oval border.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXXVI

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXXVII

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Six numbered freshwater fish swim across blue water in a gold-ruled oval, painted in watercolor on vellum.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXXVIII

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Watercolor plate of a walrus, pink fish, sunfish and blue octopus swimming in an oval sea with Latin labels.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate III

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Drawing of a squid, carp, pike, perch, and small fish over water, with a flowering water plant and shells on a bank.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXXIX

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Seven numbered fish of varied species swim in blue water inside a gilded oval border, drawn in watercolour and ink.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XL

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Watercolor plate of ten numbered fish of varied colors swimming across a stylized blue water surface within an oval border.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XLI

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Nine numbered fish swim in rippled blue water inside a gold oval border, drawn in watercolor on a cream page.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XLII

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Watercolor plate of numbered fish swimming in pale blue water within a gold oval border, by Joris Hoefnagel.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XLIII

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Watercolor of lobsters, crabs, shells, a flatfish and shrimp on a sandy seabed, numbered and labeled with a Latin inscription

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XLIV

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Hoefnagel watercolor plate of seven numbered crustaceans, lobsters, crabs and shrimp, over blue water within an oval border.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XLV

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Watercolor plate of two crabs and numbered seashells arranged within a gold oval border, labeled XXXVI.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XLVI

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Pen drawing of a misty harbor with moored sailing boats, a rowboat, and church towers behind rooftops by the water.

Harbor in Dordrecht

Albert Lebourg, 1895

Charcoal and white chalk sketch of a seated nude woman with crossed legs, plus a small study of a foot, on brown paper.

Seated Nude and a Foot

Arthur Bowen Davies, 1920

Pencil sketch of a church facade with a cross on the gable, an arched doorway, and a Latin inscription above.

Mission Dolores, San Francisco

Arthur Bowen Davies, 1913

Pencil and watercolor drawing of four nude women in intertwined poses on a warm cream ground.

Four Figures

Arthur Bowen Davies, 1921