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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Two sketch pages: a brown ink boy's face on the left and pencil studies of a sheep head and lines on the right.

Boy's Face; Two Sheep [verso]

Paul Gauguin, 1884-1888

A Profile and Four Shapes; Sketch of a Man's Head [recto]

Paul Gauguin, 1884-1888

Pencil drawing of a small cottage with a steep roof, two chimneys and shuttered windows beside a path and trees.

The Magrot House, Cuesmes

Vincent van Gogh, c. 1879/1880

Pencil drawing of a row of rustic cottages with steep roofs and chimneys beside a road, under a cloudy sky.

The Zandmennik House

Vincent van Gogh, c. 1879/1880

Pen and brown ink sketch of farm buildings and dense trees beside a pond, with a path and small figure in the foreground.

A Landscape with Farm Buildings among Trees

Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1650/1655

Red chalk drawing of a park with a small temple among tall trees, a man with a wheelbarrow, and stone lions in the foreground

Italian Park with a Tempietto

Hubert Robert, 1763

Lithograph of caricatured deputies seated in tiered legislative benches, some dozing, with a top hat on the front desk.

Le Ventre Législatif (The Legislative Belly)

Honoré Daumier, 1834

Daumier lithograph of men hauling an overloaded cart through a street while a woman waves a flag and crowds watch.

Grrrrand Déménagement du Constitutionnel

Honoré Daumier, 1846

Etching of a rocky river valley with a village, bridge, and small figures in the foreground, including the sacrifice of Abrah

Sacrifice of Abraham

Hieronymus Cock, 1551

Etching of a mounted rider on a rearing horse above sprawled dead soldiers, with cavalry and banners in the distance.

Battlefield

Karel Dujardin, 1652

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowded procession before a classical temple with columns and a statue on a distant column.

A Triumphal Procession in Ancient Rome

Gaetano Gandolfi, c. 1780

Brown ink and wash drawing of soldiers and grieving women in an interior, depicting the death of Priam.

The Death of Priam

Michael Lucas Leopold Willmann, c. 1660

Shell (Vasum ceramicum)

Wenceslaus Hollar, c. 1645

Etching of a spiny murex seashell in side view, with a long tapering canal and projecting spines on pale paper.

Shell (Murex brandaris)

Wenceslaus Hollar, c. 1645

Pen and brown wash drawing of four evangelists writing in an arcaded scriptorium with an ox, lion, eagle and angel.

Four Evangelists in a Scriptorium

Master I.K., 1539

Pen and white-heightened sketch on tan ground showing several male figure studies within an ornamental architectural frame.

Various Figure Studies

Filippino Lippi, c. 1493/1495

Red chalk sketch of a winged old man with a scythe, a seated woman, cherubs and loose figure studies on cream paper.

Mythological Composition with Chronos and Harpies [recto]

Giovanni Battista Cipriani

Book cover with red line drawing of a sailing boat, reeds, water lilies and a village on a Norfolk Broads waterway.

Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads

Peter Henry Emerson and T.F. Goodall, 1886

Pencil sketch of thatched cottages and willow trees on a riverbank, with a sailboat on calm water to the right.

Cottages by a River

Jan van Goyen, c. 1627/1629

Etching of monkeys in clothing running a barber shop, one shaving a customer in a chair, others at work in a cluttered room.

The Monkeys' Barber Shop

Coryn Boel after David Teniers the Younger, mid 17th century

Hand-colored print of a bird-headed man fishing and a bird-headed woman in a blue gown seated by a harp near a pond.

Metamorphoses of the Day: A Conventional Marriage

Jean-Ignace-Isidore Grandville, 1829

Hand-colored 1829 caricature of animal-headed figures in period dress reading street posters on a pole.

Metamorphoses of the Day: Regrets, or Never till the Next Time

Jean-Ignace-Isidore Grandville, 1829

Hand-colored caricature of an insect with antennae reclining in a chair while a doctor checks his pulse, with two insect visi

The Ailing Cricket

Jean-Ignace-Isidore Grandville, 1829

Hand-colored print of a crowded evening scene at Vauxhall Gardens, with an orchestra on a balcony and strollers under trees.

Vauxhall Gardens

Robert Pollard and Francis Jukes after Thomas Rowlandson, published by John Raphael Smith, 1785

Grey wash drawing of a walled garden with a well and figures, a stone house at left, and a village of rooftops beyond.

Landscape View

Brown ink drawing of a port with workers, a loaded cart, a church tower, large trees and distant ship masts.

View of a Port

Unknown artist

Pen and wash drawing of an ornamental helmet design with scrolling strapwork, mythological figures and a central classical me

Design for a Burgonet Helmet

Jean Cousin the Elder, c. 1545

Red chalk drawing of a rearing horse on a pedestal with faint measurement lines and proportional notes.

A Marble Horse on the Quirinal Hill [recto]

Raphael, c. 1513

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Virgin and Child with a kneeling saint and several onlookers in the background.

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine

Anthony van Dyck, c. 1618

Brown ink and wash drawing of a flat landscape with a wooden shed, reeds, a water channel, and distant houses under an open s

View of Houtewael near the Sint Anthoniespoort [recto]

Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1650