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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Etching of sailing boats on a river with the town of Emmerich and its church spire along the far bank.

Emmerich

Wenceslaus Hollar, c. 1632/1635

Etching of the city of Kampen across a river, with church towers, windmills and a gallows in the foreground.

Kampen

Wenceslaus Hollar, c. 1632

Etching of sailing boats on rippling water with a town skyline on the shore, labeled Lillo.

Lillo

Wenceslaus Hollar, c. 1632

Etching of porters unloading bales and crates from a rowboat at a harbor, with sailing ships in the background.

Title Page for "Views of the Ports of the Sea"

Stefano Della Bella, 1647

Hand-colored print of a male Argus pheasant with fanned wing feathers and eyespots, beside a stream and ferns.

Argus Pheasant (Argusianus Argus)

W. Hart, published 1850-1883

Hand-colored print of two rufous-breasted bamboo partridges with red eyes among rocks, grass and leaves.

Rufous-breasted Bamboo Partridge (Bambusicola Hyperythra)

John Gould and W. Hart

Hand-colored lithograph of a black tern flying over two dark birds swimming near reeds on a marsh at sunset.

Hydrochelidon nigra

John Gould and H.C. Richter

Hand-colored print of two nightjar birds perched on a mossy branch with oak leaves, caption Caprimulgus Ruficollis.

Caprimulgus Ruficollis

John Gould and H.C. Richter

Engraved allegory with two draped women beside a decorated urn, cypress trees, and an oval portrait medallion.

Allegory in Honor of Anne of Austria

Brown ink and wash drawing of a rider struggling to control a rearing horse near trees, with a kneeling figure at left.

Alexander the Great and Bucephalus

Taddeo Zuccari, c. 1553

Pen and brown ink wash drawing of a standing young man before a seated bearded elder and a crowd of turbaned onlookers.

Joseph Recounting His Dreams

Rembrandt van Rijn, early 1640s

Red chalk sketch of a crowd with spears and poles in a hilly landscape, attributed to Vittore Carpaccio.

The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand

Vittore Carpaccio, c. 1514

Red chalk sketch of several groups of standing men, some looking upward, with a seated figure pointing at upper right.

Groups of Male Figures

Vittore Carpaccio, c. 1514

Grey wash drawing of a vast classical church interior with coffered domes, columns, clouds through an oculus, and tiny figure

Perspective View of the Interior of a Metropolitan Church

Etienne-Louis Boullée, 1780/1781

Hand-colored engraving of a commander questioning a captive under a canopy, and the captive bound to a tree before a walled c

Holofernes Interrogating Achior

Unknown artist, c. 1575

Hand-colored print of Judith addressing bearded elders in a hall, with a city gate and soldiers in the background.

Judith Goes to the Camp of Holofernes

Unknown artist, c. 1575

Hand-colored print of Mary Magdalene kneeling with a skull and open book, attended by three angels, with a church in the back

Saint Mary Magdalene Pray for Us

Unknown artist, c. 1820

Engraving of a crowned king on a throne judging two women, a soldier with a sword beside him, a child lying below.

The Judgment of Solomon

Etching of a cluttered kitchen with a hanging carcass, vegetables in barrels, and two figures by a hearth.

Interior of a Kitchen

David Teniers the Younger

Engraving of cats performing music around a table, watched by an owl, with a monkey playing a flute on the floor.

The Cat's Concert

Coryn Boel after David Teniers the Younger

Engraving of a dark arched tomb with a nude figure entwined by a serpent and a spear-holding figure seated at right.

The Tomb of Death

Francesco Bartolozzi after Thomas Stothard

Grey wash drawing of a family visit: a woman in bed holds an infant while visitors, a child and a dog gather around her.

Visit to the Nurse

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1780/1790

Pencil and watercolor sketch of women harvesting peas in a field, some kneeling and some bending over the plants.

Pea Harvesters [recto]

Camille Pissarro, c. 1880

Pencil sketch of a country road with a horseback rider, a large tree at right, and distant poplars across an open field.

Montmorency Road

Camille Pissarro, c. 1850/1860

Laundress Carrying Linen

Edgar Degas, c. 1885/1895

Loose watercolor sketch of green and blue trees along a horizon with faint bird-like strokes in the pale sky above.

Mont Sainte-Victoire [recto]

Paul Cézanne, c. 1895

Ink drawing of a rural landscape with a thatched cottage, bare trees and a grassy field on tan paper.

Landscape at Pont-Aven

Paul Gauguin, c. 1888

Pencil sketches of geese in various poses and studies of two girls wearing bonnets on a two-panel sheet.

Geese; Girls in Bonnets, Geese [recto]

Paul Gauguin, 1886

Pencil sketch of a monkey head and cottage on left; colored pencil drawing of a seated boy in a blue hat on right.

Monkey and Cottage; Little Breton Boy [recto]

Paul Gauguin, 1886

Two Studies of a Child's Head; Two Studies of a Child's Head, a Woman in Profile, and a Man Wrestling an Animal [recto]

Paul Gauguin, 1884-1888