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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Hand-colored engraving of a red and white banded snake coiling around a plant with green leaves and a bulb.

The Corn Snake (Coluber fulvius?)

Mark Catesby, 1731

Pen and ink drawing of a timber-roofed barn interior with a staircase, stone arches, and a view of a rural gate and cottages.

Interior of a Barn Built on Ancient Ruins

Hand-colored print of a dark snake with a yellow belly beside a pink coneflower with green leaves, by Mark Catesby, 1731.

The Glass Snake (Anguis ventralis)

Mark Catesby, 1731

Hand-colored print of a dark purple martin perched beside ivy vines with red berries and a thatched roof.

The Purple Martin (Hirundo purpurea)

Mark Catesby, 1731

Pastel and charcoal drawing of two studies of a seated jockey in a helmet, with curved motion lines on brown paper.

Two Studies of a Jockey

Edgar Degas, c. 1884

Hand-colored engraving of a white-headed eagle diving toward a fish, with a smaller flying eagle and an enlarged head outline

The Bald Eagle (Falco leucocephalus)

Mark Catesby, 1731

Hand-colored print of a black skimmer bird with an open orange and black bill, standing on a sandy mound.

The Cutwater (Rhynchops nigra)

Mark Catesby, 1731

Hand-colored engraving of a red-clawed crab beside a branching yellow coral on a cream background.

The Red Clawed Crab (Cancer erythropus)

Mark Catesby, 1731

Grey wash landscape of a valley with trees, a distant lake, rolling hills and a rocky outcrop on the right.

The Head of Ullswater

Edward Dayes, 1790s

Hand-colored engraving of a green gar fish beneath a branch with yellow flowers, green leaves, and berries.

The Green Gar Fish (Esox osseus)

Mark Catesby, 1731

Grey chalk drawing of a reclining prophet and flying putti seen from below, with diagonal perspective guide lines.

Ceiling Studies of a Prophet and a Putto Seen from Below

Giulio Cesare Procaccini, 1602

Fan-shaped print of a ballerina in a tutu facing a bearded man in a top hat, with another man behind them, in warm orange ton

Fan

Jean-Louis Forain, 1903

Brown ink and wash drawing of several gondolas with gondoliers poling across water.

Gondolas

Attributed to Francesco Guardi

Etching of two figures bending over a stretcher-bound paralytic, with faint sketched figures in the background.

Lourdes, the Paralytic (second plate)

Jean-Louis Forain, 1912

Brown wash drawing of a hilltop castle above a river, with figures, a boat, a sledge and tall trees in the foreground.

View of Castle Sachsenburg

Lithograph of a dim gambling room with men in dark suits, a seated woman in a pale gown, and drapery behind them.

Gambling Room

Jean-Louis Forain, 1914

Lithograph of a courtroom with robed lawyers leaning at a wooden barrier and a helmeted guard standing at left.

Lawyer Talking to His Client

Jean-Louis Forain, 1915

Lithograph of a slumped seated man and a standing woman in a long dress beside a draped table in a dim room.

Scene in a Private Room (horizontal plate)

Jean-Louis Forain, 1905

Print of a young girl with dark hair resting her head on her shoulder, wearing a dotted blouse, gazing sideways.

Etude d'enfant (Study of a Child)

Camille Bourget, 1895

Brown lithograph of a nude woman leaning on a dresser while an attendant in an apron stands nearby in a room with a window.

La friction au gant de crin (Massage with Coarse Hair Glove)

Jean-Louis Forain, 1895

Watercolor drawing of the Colosseum interior with tiered arches, ruined walls, small figures on the arena floor, and a cloudy

Interior of the Colosseum

Watercolor drawing of the Arch of Titus and Roman ruins with a brick bell tower under a pale blue sky.

The Arch of Titus and the Temple of Venus and Rome near the Roman Forum

Pencil sketch of a woman with an infant and a boy seated before a carved pulpit in a church interior.

Figures at a Church Service

Hippolyte Bellangé

Sepia drawing of a crowded 1830s street with a curved columned building, awnings and people in period dress.

View of Muhlendamm

Johann Friedrich Stock, 1834

Monochrome drawing of two seated women beside a tree with large leaves, one holding a fan, on a pale green sheet.

Tahiti

After Paul Gauguin, 1895

Engraved interior scene of elegantly dressed figures in a decorated room with paintings, a canopy bed, and dogs.

Marriage a la Mode: pl.1

Louis Gérard Scotin, 1745

Engraved interior with a reclining woman, attended figures, a dog at a table, and a window view of a city by a river.

Marriage a la Mode: pl.6

Louis Gérard Scotin, 1745

Sepia etching of two harnessed horses beside a horse-drawn cab at a stand, with a tree trunk at right, by Eugène Béjot.

Station de fiacre (Cab Stand)

Eugène Bejot, 1893

Loose ink sketch of a reclining woman on a bed with a seated figure, pillows, and a small cat in the upper right corner.

Croquis (Sketch)

Paul Edouard Crébassa, 1895

Etching of a woman in a long gown standing on a hillside under dark trees, with a distant tower on the horizon.

Carmosine (projet de programme)

Maurice Dumont, 1895