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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Brown wash drawing of a historical scene with a seated ruler, armored warrior, mounted horse, soldiers and banners.

Historical Scene

Unknown artist, third quarter 16th century

Ink and wash drawing of a flood with struggling figures, a large ark, boats, a bent tree, and rain clouds.

The Flood

Georg Pencz after Michelangelo, 1530s

Etching of a pastoral scene with a shepherd, a standing woman, cattle by a stone bridge, and a seated woman under trees.

The Ford (Le passage du gué)

Claude Lorrain, 1634

Etching of cows and a bull resting and standing on a grassy hillside under an open sky, with a fallen log at lower left.

Cow, Bull and Calf

Etching of a woman wading a stream beside a drinking donkey with a packed basket, a dog, and a wooded hillside.

Woman Crossing a Stream

Karel Dujardin, 1662

Engraving of Laocoon wrestling serpents on a platform beside a colonnade, with a ruined city in the background.

Laocoon

Jean de Gourmont

Engraving of a martyrdom scene with a bound man on a trestle, executioners, a seated official, and a crowd in a columned hall

Martyrdom of Saint Andrew

Carlo Maratta after Domenichino

Ink and wash drawing of a grand church interior with receding arches, Corinthian columns and coffered vaults.

The Interior of Saint Peter's, Rome

Unknown artist, first quarter 17th century

Tonal print of a bearded man lying on a stone floor with his ankles chained to the wall.

Man in Chains

John Skippe after Jacopo Tintoretto, 1808

Brown chiaroscuro woodcut of a woman with a rolled paper beside a feathered-hat man, watched by two older women.

The Procuress

Ludwig Büsinck after Georges Lallemand, 1620-1640

Fan-shaped ink and wash drawing of the Death of the Virgin, with mourning apostles gathered around a reclining woman on a bed

Death of the Virgin

Johann Matthias Kager, 1620s

Pen and brown ink drawing of two helmeted soldiers in a wood beside a sleeping woman and a cupid.

Three Soldiers Discovering a Sleeping Woman

Nicolas-Raymond de La Fage

Charcoal sketch of three seated figures seen from behind in a meadow, wearing hats, with hatched grass in front.

Three Figures Seated in a Meadow, Seen from the Back

Unknown artist, late 19th century

Etching of riders on galloping horses, one man in a headscarf raising a whip, with other horsemen behind him.

Rough Sport in the Yosemite

James David Smillie, 1885

Grey-ground pen drawing with white highlights showing six medieval figure studies, including seated, standing and reclining f

Studies for Six Figures (sheet from a model book) [recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1450/1460

Pen and brown ink drawing of a smoking volcanic crater with rocky cliffs and tiny figures on the ground below.

Forum Vulcani: The Hot Springs at Pozzuoli

Joris Hoefnagel, 1578

Etching of the drunken Silenus reclining with a wine cup, attended by a satyr beside a large wine barrel and a donkey.

The Drunken Silenus

Jusepe de Ribera, 1628

Woodcut of the Adoration of the Magi: mounted kings and attendants approach the Virgin and Child in a forest under an angelic

The Adoration of the Magi

Domenico Campagnola

Grey lithograph of a cloaked man with a crutch walking a path past tall trees and two peeking children.

Beggar with a Crutch (Mendiant a la bequille)

Camille Pissarro, 1897

Engraving of a bearded man flanked by allegorical women Charity, Hope and Faith, with a skeleton and a child below clouds.

Man Assisted by Faith, Hope and Charity

after Maerten van Heemskerck, 1562

Engraving of a standing Christ-like figure at a cross with a kneeling man, a woman labeled Caritas, and two children.

The Diligent Worker United with Christ after Death

Philip Galle after Maerten van Heemskerck, 1572

Engraved title page with Latin lettering in a central cartouche, flanked by pillars, putti, and seated apostles.

Title Page

Philip Galle after Maerten van Heemskerck after Jan van der Straet

Engraving of apostles and women praying together in a tiled upper room with draped curtains and an oil lamp.

The Meeting of the Apostles and the Women in the Upper Room

Philip Galle after Jan van der Straet

Engraving of apostles praying and a man at a barred window in a columned hall, with a town scene and clouds at left.

The Choosing of Saint Matthias

Philip Galle after Maerten van Heemskerck

Engraving of Pentecost: Mary kneels centrally as a dove of the Holy Spirit radiates light over apostles and angels in an inte

Pentecost

Philip Galle after Jan van der Straet

Engraving of Saint Peter preaching from a platform to a crowd on steps, with a classical city and rotunda behind.

Saint Peter Speaks to the People about Christ

Philip Galle after Maerten van Heemskerck

Engraving of a crowded interior where a haloed figure baptizes a kneeling man while a dove descends in light above.

Many are Baptized

Philip Galle after Maerten van Heemskerck

Engraving of two haloed apostles helping a seated cripple on temple steps, with columns, arcades and onlookers around them.

Saints Peter and John Heal a Cripple at the Gate of the Temple

Philip Galle after Maerten van Heemskerck

Engraving of the Holy Spirit as a dove descending on kneeling figures above, with two figures in a beamed interior below.

And They were All Filled with the Holy Ghost

Philip Galle after Maerten van Heemskerck

Engraving of Ananias and Sapphira: a fallen figure among scattered coins before haloed apostles beneath classical arches.

The Deaths of Ananias and Sapphira

Philip Galle after Maerten van Heemskerck