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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Engraved bird's-eye map of ancient Rome showing city walls, hills, the Tiber, and labeled monuments and gates.

Topographical Map of Ancient Rome

Nicolas Béatrizet, 1557

Antique engraved bird's-eye map of Rome with city walls, the Tiber, hills, and a numbered key below.

Topographical Map of Modern Rome

Sebastiano di Re after Giovanni Antonio Dosio, 1561

Engraving of the bronze Capitoline Wolf suckling twins Romulus and Remus on a pedestal, with Latin inscription below.

Capitoline Wolf with Romulus and Remus

Unknown artist, 1552

Engraved print of a triumphal arch with three openings, Corinthian columns, relief panels, and a Latin inscription over a che

Arch of Constantine

Unknown artist

Engraving of a three-arched Roman gateway with Corinthian columns, pedimented niches and inscribed stone panels above.

Arch of the Claudian Aqueduct

Unknown artist, 1549

Engraved cutaway view of the Colosseum showing exterior arcades on the right and interior tiered seating and arena on the lef

Colosseum

Attributed to Nicolaus Beatrizet

Engraving of the ruined Colosseum in Rome with tiered arches, overgrown upper walls, and two small figures on a hillside.

Colosseum

Unknown artist

Engraved interior with a monk and a nun at a dining table by a fireplace, a dog and cat nearby, and figures praying at a wind

The Amorous Nun between the Abbot and the Monk

Hans Collaert the Elder, c. 1560

Drawing of winged Cupid leaning over reclining Psyche on a canopied bed, lit by a lamp, in grey wash with white highlights.

Cupid with Psyche Extinguishing the Lamp

François-Édouard Picot

Sepia drawing of an Arcadian landscape with a Doric temple, waterfall, lake, large tree and small figures.

Arcadian Landscape with a Doric Temple

Christoph Heinrich Kniep, 1790s

Pen drawing of a crucifix in a church with kneeling and standing saints in robes beneath arches and columns.

A Crucifix in a Church with Saints Thomas Aquinas, Mary Magdalene, Albertus Magnus, and Others

Johann Heinrich Schönfeld, 1655

Hand-colored print of a girl steadying a boy in a red jacket on stilts in a garden with trees and roses.

Les Échasses

I Louis-Marin Bonnet after Jean-Baptiste Hüet, c. 1790

Tonal print of a pale nude woman lying on a ledge, with a seated man in shadowed drapery bending over her.

Levite of Ephraim and His Dead Wife

M.G. Fuchs after Jean-Jacques Henner, c. 1898

Oval engraving of an allegorical chariot scene with a nude woman, a winged archer, a skeleton with torch, and animals.

Lust

Léon Davent after Luca Penni, c. 1547

Etched landscape of a watermill and buildings on rocky hillside, with trees and a distant town beside a river.

Landscape with a Mill

Dominique Barrière after Titian, c. 1650

Title page of Ludwig Richter's Radirungen portfolio, with black framed lettering on pale blue paper announcing views of Rome.

Malerische Ansichten aus den Umgebungen von Rom

Ludwig Richter, 1831-1832

Lithograph of a Gothic pilgrimage church with a tall spire beside a waterfall and forest in Tyrol.

Wallfahrts Kirche in Thyrol

Domenico Quaglio the Younger, 1818

Graphite and white chalk landscape drawing on tan paper showing shrubs, a winding stream, trees at right, and distant hills.

Landscape near Vourlis

Antoine Jean Duclaux, c. 1830

Red chalk drawing of a bearded nude river god seated on rocks, leaning on a large urn with one arm outstretched.

River God

Paul Troger, c. 1720

Striped peach poster in black type announcing the Groupe Impressionniste et Synthétiste paintings exhibition at Café des Arts

Poster for "L'Exposition de Peintures du Groupe Impressionniste et Synthétiste" at Café des Arts

Unknown artist, 1889

Black ink print of a horseman on a rearing horse passing a crouching beggar under swirling clouds, on tan paper.

The Horseman and the Beggar (Le Cavalier et le mendiant)

Louis Anquetin, 1893

Pencil sketch of a wooden Swiss house with a gabled roof and balconies, set among trees with a figure in the courtyard.

Courtyard of a Swiss Country House

Friedrich Salathé

Pencil sketch of a fortified castle on a hill above a wooded valley flanked by rocky cliffs and a stone bridge.

Fortified Castle Above a Narrow Valley

Friedrich Salathé

Pencil sketch of a terraced garden with trees, shrubs, a stone wall and a villa with a roof at right.

A Terraced Garden by a Villa

Friedrich Salathé, 1815/21

Red and black chalk drawing of a saddled camel with a bridle and pack load, with faint sketch lines around it.

Camel

Johann Rudolph Schellenberg, 1770s

Pen and ink drawing of a crowd around a figure with raised bound arms, with a woman and child among onlookers.

Part of the Crowd at the Ecce Homo

Peter Paul Rubens over Anonymous Italian after Titian

Mezzotint of an old bearded king in chains embracing a young woman in white on a draped bed, after Henry Fuseli.

Lear and Cordelia

John Raphael Smith after Henry Fuseli, 1784

Etching of a gothic mansion with turrets and a fence, with cattle, sheep, and birds in the foreground and sky.

La Maison Enchantée (The Haunted House)

Rodolphe Bresdin, 1871

Etching of a stone villa and tower beside a road, with two cloaked figures walking and hills in the distance.

For dalla porta pia (Villa outside the Porta Pia)

Herman van Swanevelt

Lithograph of a dappled horse harnessed to a canvas-covered cart in a courtyard, with figures in a doorway nearby.

Cheval de charrette sorti des Limons

Théodore Géricault, 1823