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National Gallery of Art

689 works

Pencil sketch of a young child with puffed sleeves and a serious expression on cream paper, signed M. and dated 95.

Petit portrait

Maurice Dumont, 1895

Black ink print of a woman in a long coat and wide-brimmed hat, seen from behind, one arm extended to the side.

Etude pour un portrait

Maurice Delcourt, 1895

Head of a Magician

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, c. 1760

Head of a Young Man

Gustav Heinrich Naecke, c. 1818

Self-Portrait

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1928

Profile Head of a Man in a Turban

Dominique Vivant Denon, 1820

Etched bust portrait of a middle-aged man with a mustache and ornate lace collar, looking toward the viewer.

Portrait of a Middle-Aged Man

Ottavio Mario Leoni

Brown ink and wash drawing of a woman reaching toward a platter beside armored soldiers and a nude figure in a columned room.

Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist

Unknown artist, c. 1580

Pen and wash drawing of Salome holding a platter with the head of Saint John the Baptist, with a bearded man behind her.

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, 1825/1835

Ink drawing of a man in a top hat with a moustache and cane, dated 1909, by William Merritt Chase.

Self-Portrait

William Merritt Chase, 1909

Lithograph portrait of a bald man in a suit and tie, gazing sideways with a stern expression, on cream paper.

Self-Portrait

Max Liebermann, 1924

Head of a Young Woman Facing Left

Gilles Demarteau, the Elder, after François Boucher, c. 1774

Woodcut of an armored warrior with a spear beside a feathered grotesque figure, with a radiating spider web above.

Von der Artzney bayder Glück (De Remediis Utriusque Fortuna) (On the Remedies of Good and Evil Fortune)

Francesco Petrarch and Hans Weiditz, II, 1532

Head of a Man

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Engraved double portrait of two men in oval medallions, flanked by putti, a lion, a globe and floral ornament, with Latin ins

Rubens and van Dyck, a Double Portrait

Paulus Pontius, after Sir Anthony van Dyck and Erasmus Quellinus II

Pencil and red chalk drawing of a man's head in three-quarter view with tousled hair and a mustache.

Head of a Man

Italian or French 16th/17th Century, 1580/1610 (?)

Handwritten letter on Iris Court letterhead beside a pencil and wash portrait sketch of a man labeled John L. Toole.

A Letter From Iris Court with a Portrait of John L. Toole

Mortimer Menpes

Pencil portrait of a balding man with a mustache, head turned slightly, wearing a collared shirt and tie.

Portrait of a Man (Souvenir d'un Passage à Paris)

Albert Besnard, 1898

Pencil and brown wash sketch of figures in outdoor settings with trees, two compositional studies side by side.

Two Studies for a Portrait of the Warren Family

George Romney, c. 1768

Drawing of a balding cleric in a dark gown and white clerical bands, shaded in charcoal on tan paper.

Half-Length Portrait of a Cleric

Head of a Bearded Gentleman

Charles-Louis-Lucien Müller, early 1860s

Woodcut title page with ornate border, central scene of an enthroned woman receiving a book from a kneeling scholar.

De plurimis claris selectisque Mulieribus

Unknown artist, published April 1497, borders dated 1493

Engraved portrait of an older bearded man in a ruff collar and skullcap, with laurel bust and trumpets in the arched frame.

Portrait of Hendrick Goltzius

Hendrick Goltzius Jan Muller, c.1617

Engraving of Judith holding a sword beside a servant who carries the severed head of Holofernes under a tent curtain.

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

after Hendrik Goltzius Christoffel van Sichem I

Charcoal drawing of a man's angular face beside a seated figure in a studio with sketched paintings on the wall.

Self-Portrait in the Studio (Selbstbildnis im Atelier)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1923

Engraved oval portrait of an elderly bearded man in a ruff collar, with Latin inscriptions around the border.

Portrait of Dirck Volckertcz. Coornhert

Hendrick Goltzius, 1591

Lithograph of four men's heads in varied poses, several wearing round spectacles, signed L. Boilly 1832.

Self-Portrait

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1832

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of a youth with wavy hair turned three-quarter view on tan paper.

Portrait of a Youth

Vincenzo Gemito, 1923

Woodcut frontispiece portrait of a man in a flat cap and fur collar within an arched niche, with Latin caption above.

Annotationes Othonis Brunfelsii...in quatuor Euangelia & Acta Apostolorum...

Otto Brunfels Hans Baldung Grien, 1535

Pencil drawing of a man in a cap working at a lithographic press in a workshop with tools on the bench.

Self-Portrait Working at a Lithographic Press

Julius Adam the Elder, 1847