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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Watercolor of waterfalls cascading past a temple and villas, with a seated figure and sheep in the foreground.

The Waterfalls at Tivoli

Louis Ducros, c. 1790

Watercolor of a hilltop town with a domed church, wooded hills, and a distant sea under a pale blue sky.

Larici from the Convent of the Galoro

Thomas Jones, 1777

Etching of an elderly woman seated by a stone wall with two children, a vegetable basket, and a cooking pot on a fire.

Interior of a House

Francesco Londonio, 1763

Sepia etching of a saddled horse, a pipe-smoking soldier in a greatcoat, and a wagon with soldiers behind them.

Horse with Soldiers Smoking Pipe/Military Scene

Johann Adam Klein, 1816

Pissing Cow and Two Sheep

after Paulus Potter Johann Teyler, c. 1685-1697

Arcadian landscape with an obelisk on a hill, shepherds at a fountain, grazing sheep and a goat, and a stream in woodland.

Arcadian Landscape with an Obelisk

Salomon Gessner, 1785

Engraved coastal view of fishermen hauling a net from a sailboat beside ruins and rocky cliffs, with hills in the distance.

View of the Ancient Port of Phaleron, Athens

Jacques Philippe LeBas after Julien David Le Roy, 1758

Etching of a landscape with classical ruins, fallen columns, travelers, rolling hills and sunbeams breaking through clouds.

The Dromos, Athens

Jacques Philippe LeBas after Julien David Le Roy, 1758

Etching of a funeral procession with a black hearse and mourners on a Paris boulevard, under a purple evening sky.

Funeral Procession on the Boulevard de Clichy

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1887

Pencil panorama of rolling hills, an olive grove, and a classical temple on a distant hilltop under a pale sky.

Panorama toward Athens from the Garden of Aphrodite

Joseph Thürmer, 1818

Watercolor landscape of travelers with a donkey on a rocky road, a stone tower at right, and mountains under a soft sky.

View from Tivoli across the Tiber Valley at Sunset

Franz Kaisermann, 1813

Pencil and wash sketch of a ruined tower among wooded hills under a cloudy sky, with a bare tree in the foreground.

Ruins of a Fortified Tower among Wooded Hills [recto]

Friedrich Salathé, 1816/1821

Engraving of a wooded idyll with reclining figures, a goat, a peacock, and Jupiter on a cloud above.

The Golden Age

after Nicolaes de Bruyn after Abraham Bloemaert Anonymous, 1644

Etching of a rocky valley with fields, a distant village, and mountains under a sky with clouds.

The Enclosed Valley

Hercules Seghers

Two oval etched portraits of an old man in a cap and an old woman in a headscarf, set against cross-hatched backgrounds.

Heads of a Peasant Man and Woman

Adriaen Brouwer

Etching of the Marriage at Cana showing a banquet with seated guests, servants pouring wine into stone jars, and arched inter

The Marriage at Cana

Odoardo Fialetti

Brown wash drawing of a grand classical hall with basketweave columns, a painted coffered ceiling, draped curtains and armill

Fantasy of a Great Hall with Basketweave Columns

Pietro Gonzaga, c. 1800

Brown wash drawing of a fantasy ancient capitol with symmetrical staircases, a temple facade, domed rotundas and a central co

Fantasy of an Ancient Capitol with Trophies and Grand Staircases

Pietro Gonzaga, c. 1800

Red chalk drawing of a cow and four sheep arranged in a symmetrical study on pale paper.

Four Sheep and a Cow

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem, c. 1652

Red chalk print of two seated male nudes on a stone block, one seen from behind, the other looking down.

Two Male Nudes

Jean-François Janinet after Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger, c. 1774

Watercolor of the Piazza San Marco in Venice with a brick bell tower, arcaded buildings, strolling figures and pigeons.

The Piazza San Marco

Rudolf von Alt, 1874

Watercolor study of arching fountaingrass clumps in a meadow corner with trees and shrubs behind.

A Corner of a Meadow with Fountaingrass

Themistokles von Eckenbrecher, 1870

Engraving of Mercury with a caduceus beside three draped women in a wooded landscape, with Latin text below.

Mercury and the Three Graces

Agostino Carracci after Jacopo Tintoretto, 1589

Sepia ink drawing of the Acropolis in Athens with the Parthenon on the hilltop above ruined arches and trees.

View of the Acropolis

Themistokles von Eckenbrecher, 1890

Etching of a river landscape with dense trees, a stone bridge, a horseback rider, reeds, and a cloudy sky.

Orage à la Fin du jour

Paul Huet, 1868

Sepia drawing of ruined Doric columns and stone walls of an ancient Greek temple with two small figures in the foreground.

Propylaeum

Themistokles von Eckenbrecher, 1890

Sepia drawing of Roman theater arches with cattle, a herder and trees in the foreground.

Theater of Herodes Atticus

Themistokles von Eckenbrecher, 1890

Engraved text plate with Latin inscriptions from Roman arches in an ornamental border of scrolls and foliage, by Piranesi, 17

Text Plate

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1748

Sepia drawing of a columned neoclassical university building with a horse carriage and palm trees in the foreground.

University

Themistokles von Eckenbrecher, 1890

Sepia drawing of Parthenon ruins with fallen marble blocks, a standing figure, and distant hills under clouds.

Parthenon, Inside

Themistokles von Eckenbrecher, 1890