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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Pen and ink drawing of a triumphal procession with a chariot carrying a seated woman, cupid, armored riders and decorated hor

The Triumph of Venus

Unknown artist, 16th century

Grey wash drawing of a rustic farmyard with a timber balcony, stairs, a bare tree, straw, and two seated figures.

A Farmyard

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

Watercolor of women in white caps washing laundry on a beach below pale chalk cliffs and a distant sea.

Washerwomen on the Beach at Etretat

George Henry Boughton

Pencil and wash drawing of classical figures on clouds, a woman welcomed by a seated god, by Vincenzo Camuccini.

Psyche Received on Mount Olympus

Vincenzo Camuccini

Ink drawing of two cloaked figures on a ledge watching winged demons fly over a writhing crowd below.

Scene from the Inferno (canto IX)

Pencil sketch of a flat coastal village with a church tower, dunes in the foreground and a distant sailboat.

View of Scheveningen [recto]

Jan van Goyen, probably c. 1650/1652

Pencil drawing of a thatched rustic house with a well, a large tree, figures, and a distant church spire.

Rustic House with a Well

Pen and wash drawing of a crowded religious procession with tall banners and a canopy passing across an open field.

Religious Procession in Landeck

Attributed to George Jones, 1820

Brown wash drawing of a dancer standing with arm extended, beside four seated women in ruffled skirts and shawls.

Spanish Dancers

Pio Joris, 1873

Drawing of a peasant man asleep on a sack, arm behind his head, with a hat and stick on the ground beside him.

Sleeping Peasant

Francesco Londonio

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bearded armored man in a plumed helmet beside a kneeling nude and cloaked figures.

Saint Homobono

Attributed to Avanzino Nucci

Three male figures in draped cloth drawn in ink and white highlights on grey paper, one bearded, with raised arms.

Three Herms

Giovanni Mauro della Rovere, c. 1630s

Brown ink drawing of a crowded fair under large trees, with a tall church tower and livestock among the figures.

The Fair at Impruneta

Remigio Cantagallina

Red chalk and wash drawing of allegorical figures, cherubs and a horned animal in a classical composition.

Antwerp Blessed with Abundance

Theodoor van Thulden, c. 1648

Red chalk sketch of a pensive young woman in a boat among reeds, with smaller study vignettes below.

Pensive Girl Adrift in a Boat

Brown wash drawing of a harbor with a statue, sailing ships, timber stacks, a carriage, and a high city wall.

View of Livorno

Sepia wash drawing of the Tomb of the Scipios with an arched entrance, a sarcophagus, trees, and strolling figures.

Tomb of Scipios

Angelo Uggeri, 1803

Pen and brown ink drawing of a Roman triumphal procession passing the Colosseum, with soldiers, horsemen and crowds.

A Roman Triumph

Pen and wash drawing of an old water mill with a tiled roof, wooden waterwheel, and stream in the foreground.

An Old Water Mill

Cornelis Adamsz Willaerts

Etching of Pan reclining beside a large vase under a tree, with a sheep and distant mountains in the landscape.

Pan Reclining before a Large Vase

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, c. 1640/1645

Brown ink drawing of a fortified stone bridge and tower beside a river, with a craggy mountain behind and travelers nearby.

Fortified Bridge against Distant Mountains

Pietro Giacomo Palmieri, c. 1760

Print of winged Cupid dancing between two draped allegorical women, with coins and a sword at lower left and Latin verse abov

Cupid Dancing with Two Allegorical Women

Paulus Moreelse, 1612

Watercolor of a woodland edge with pale birch and reddish pine trunks rising through layered green undergrowth and foliage.

The Edge of a Wood at Nohant

Eugène Delacroix, c. 1842/1843

Graphite sketch of a reclining male figure with head thrown back and arms raised, with faint studies of hands.

Satyr Leaning on a Column

Anton Domenico Gabbiani

Engraving of two apostles beside a seated paralytic man in a colonnaded hall, with a crowd of onlookers and a dog.

Apostles Peter and John Healing the Paralytic

Lambert Suavius, 1553

Pen and brown ink sketch of a cavalryman mounting a horse, with flowing mane and tail, on pale paper.

Cavalryman Mounting a Horse

Luigi Sabatelli

Engraving of a crowded pagan sacrifice scene with nude figures around a flaming altar and a horned priest beneath a tree.

Sacrifice to Priapus

Antonio Fantuzzi after Rosso Fiorentino, 1542

Pencil sketch sheet with many studies of soldiers in camp, standing, bending, crouching and reclining in varied poses.

Studies of Soldiers in Camp

Georg Philipp Rugendas

Pen and brown ink sketch of a seated man at an easel with two figures nearby in a studio scene.

An Artist Seated at His Easel [recto]

Andries Both, possibly c. 1634

Brown ink sketch of a bellowing stag with large antlers standing on a grassy ridge with faint hills behind.

A Bellowing Stag

Edwin Landseer, probably 1840/1850