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National Gallery of Art

1,161 works

Circular painting of the kneeling Virgin in blue cloak beside the reaching Christ Child, with a donkey and ox in a stone ruin

The Virgin Adoring the Child

Sandro Botticelli, 1490

Paint scene of John the Baptist pouring water over a nude Christ in a stream, with an angel and cherubs in a landscape.

The Baptism of Christ

Paris Bordone, c. 1535/1540

Woman with a bread basket and a child walk across a brick courtyard past a well, with figures in a shaded arbor beyond.

Woman and Child in a Courtyard

Pieter de Hooch, 1658/1660

Painting of a woodland feast with robed revelers, nude satyrs, a donkey, pouring vessels, and dense trees under a blue sky.

The Feast of the Gods

Titian, 1514

Painting of a rustic farm courtyard with a woman, man, children, a dog and a hen beside a brick house and wooden gate.

The Cottage Dooryard

Adriaen van Ostade, 1673

Painting of men shoeing horses outside a brick farrier's shop, with dogs, a rooster and a cloudy sky.

A Farrier's Shop

Paulus Potter, 1648

Watercolor of an interior with a clock, curtain and window rendered in soft yellow, green, blue and violet washes.

Interior with the Clock

Paul Klee, 1913

Three children in an oval frame, one blowing a soap bubble through a pipe while a girl holds a white cloth beside him.

Soap Bubbles

Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, 1764

Dark moonlit forest painting with a mounted knight beside a gnarled tree and two bathing figures in a river.

Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1888/1891

Painting of a dancer in a green and pink skirt turning on stage, with seated audience and performers behind her.

Marcelle Lender Dancing the Bolero in "Chilpéric"

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1895

Three children and a young woman gather around a wooden camera obscura inside a carved oval stone frame.

The Camera Obscura

Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, 1764

Oil portrait of a seated man in spectacles and dark coat, hand on a document, with a rural landscape behind him.

Thomas Earle

Ralph Earl, 1800

Gothic altarpiece panel of a haloed girl climbing temple steps toward a robed priest, with onlookers in side arches.

The Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple of Jerusalem

Paolo di Giovanni Fei, 1398

Octagonal painting of a sleeping nude woman, a satyr, a horned figure, and a putto with a compass in a landscape.

Allegory

Pietro degli Ingannati, c. 1515-1525

Circular painting of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, kneeling kings, a crowd, a peacock and a stable.

The Adoration of the Magi

Fra Angelico, c. 1440/1460

Painting of a standing woman, a seated man on stairs, and a man in an armchair in a bright red and yellow room.

The Visit - Couple and Newcomer

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1922

Circular painting of the kneeling Virgin in blue cloak adoring the infant Christ in a stone stable with animals.

The Virgin Adoring the Child

Sandro Botticelli, 1480/1490

Circular painting of the Crucifixion on gold ground, with Mary in a dark cloak and John in a red cloak beside Christ.

The Crucifixion

Francesco del Cossa, c. 1473/1474

Painting of a bound, bearded nude man looking upward as a cloaked executioner holds a knife, with a figure in red at left.

Jusepe de Ribera, The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, 1634

Jusepe de Ribera, 1634

Circular painting of nude putti working and drinking around a wine press under a grapevine, against a blue sky.

Putti with a Wine Press

Mariotto Albertinelli, c. 1500

Folk painting of a white farmhouse with livestock, figures, large trees, fenced fields and mountains under a blue sky.

Farmhouse in Mahantango Valley

Unknown artist, late 19th century

Two women in silk gowns share a letter beside sheep, a dog, a stone lion and flowers in a wooded garden.

The Love Letter

François Boucher, 1750

Portrait of a woman in a blue lace shawl holding a book, with a harbor city scene behind her in an ornate frame.

Eliza Wells

Abram Ross Stanley, 1840

Two children in a parlor, a boy on a dappled rocking horse and a girl in red beside him, with a patterned carpet.

The Hobby Horse

Robert Peckham, c. 1840

Garden scene with tall cypress trees, a fountain, and elegantly dressed figures gathered on a terrace under a cloudy sky.

Blind Man's Bluff

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1773

Painting of a Roman commander gesturing to soldiers holding gilded eagle standards, with an eagle overhead and a discarded sh

Decius Mus Addressing the Legions

Peter Paul Rubens, probably 1616

Portrait of a woman in a green dress holding a wooden box inscribed MARTHA, with books and a river landscape behind her.

Martha

Unknown artist, c. 1835

Painting of a newborn baby lying atop a colorful, richly patterned cradle of textiles against a green background.

Baby (Cradle)

Gustav Klimt, 1917

Two women in pastel dresses share a letter in a garden with sheep, a dog, and a stone lion statue.

The Love Letter

François Boucher, 1750

Painting of Bacchus with a vine-crowned head and cup beside reclining Ariadne, cherubs, and a leopard in a landscape.

Bacchus and Ariadne

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, c. 1743/1745