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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Engraving of a bearded figure standing on a swirling sphere amid clouds and flames, with Latin verses below.

Chaos: The Untangling of Chaos, or the Creation of the Elements

Workshop of Hendrick Goltzius, after Hendrick Goltzius, 1589

Engraving of Pan pursuing the nymph Syrinx among reeds by a river, with a reclining river god in the foreground.

Pan and Syrinx

Workshop of Hendrick Goltzius, after Hendrick Goltzius, 1589

Engraving of nude figures in a lush forest with Jupiter on a cloud above, a goat, and a sun face in the sky.

The Golden Age

Workshop of Hendrick Goltzius, after Hendrick Goltzius, c. 1589

Engraving of muscular giants attacking the heavens while armed gods hurl thunderbolts from the clouds above.

The Giants Climbing the Heavens

Workshop of Hendrick Goltzius, after Hendrick Goltzius, c. 1589

Etching of two dogs fighting over a piece of meat in a field, with trees at right and a distant village spire at left.

The Disputed Meat (La viande disputé)

Jan le Ducq, 1661

Etching of a ewe standing over a nursing lamb, with another lamb resting in the grass at left.

Ewe Nursing Her Lamb

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem

Etching of three sheep and a lamb resting in a grassy pastoral landscape with rocks in the foreground.

Three Sheep and a Lamb

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem

Misty watercolor woodland with slender trees, a dirt path, and a bright opening of light through green foliage.

June

Roswell Morse Shurtleff, c.1910

Pen and wash drawing of a symmetrical baroque fountain facade with arches, obelisks, statues, and a horse-topped urn.

Study for "The Seconda Macchina for the Chinea of 1754: An Allegory of Waterworks"

Paolo Posi, 1754

Pen drawing of an octagonal tower with a flag and statues, flanked by pedestal figures, a fountain and a column.

Study for "The Seconda Macchina for the Chinea of 1753: The Quarters of the Royal Militia"

Paolo Posi, 1753

Brown ink drawing of a vaulted hall with classical columns, statues, and a smoking altar at the far end.

A Monumental Vaulted Hall with a Smoking Altar

Luigi Tasca, 1813/1814

Etching of an arcadian landscape with large oaks, a willow, a pond, a classical temple, and a satyr family with a sheep.

Arcadian Landscape with a Satyr Family

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, 1759-1835

Pen and wash drawing of the hilltop town of Ariccia with a domed church and arched aqueduct across a valley.

Ariccia Seen from across a Valley

August Christian Geist, 1866

Watercolor landscape of ruins on a rocky hill above a valley, with a wooden bridge, grazing cattle and a thatched cottage.

The Ruins of the Monastery of Oybin in the Zittau Mountains

Philipp Veith, 1792

Watercolor of three fisher women with baskets and a net on a rocky shore, with sailboats on a stormy sea.

Three Fisher Girls, Tynemouth

Winslow Homer, 1881

Wash drawing of a woman in a crinoline reading on a sandy beach beside a folding chair, with faint figures and sea behind her

Woman in a Crinoline on the Beach of Trouville

Eugène-Louis Boudin, c. 1865

Watercolor of a sunlit mountain valley with craggy cliffs and trees, with a seated man at lower right.

A Seated Man Contemplating a Sunlit Mountain Valley

Jakob Alt, c. 1825

Watercolor and ink drawing of a hunched blue figure beside a brown log against red and gray washes.

Hölzfaller (recto)

Wilhelm Morgner, 1913

Engraving of a skeleton with wings among crowds of nude and robed figures in a rocky cave, some grieving or fleeing.

The Skeletons

after Baccio Bandinelli Marco Dente, c. 1518

Pale lithograph of rocky cliffs above calm sea with hills receding into hazy sky, by Paul Baum.

Annater Muiden

Paul Baum, 1900

Woodcut-style print of a stone church with arched doorways beside trees, set against a dense pattern of small pale flowers.

Das Mappenwerk der Insel

Wilhelm Laage, 1900

Pale drawing of two standing women in an interior with a flower vase, overlaid with white snowflake-like linear patterns.

Das Mappenwerk der Insel

Max Arthur Stremel, 1900

Pen and wash drawing of classical ruins, fallen columns, a wind-bent palm, and a river winding toward a distant mountain.

Antique Ruins along a Mountain Coast

Johann Franz Ermels, 1670s

Etching of a vaulted classical interior with steps, a central statue on a pedestal, and a colonnade with reliefs.

Porch before a Circular Temple

Pierre Moreau, c. 1750

Grey and white chalk drawing of forest treetops on blue-grey paper, with light striking the foliage on the right.

Forest Treetops Struck by Light

Heinrich Rieter, c. 1800

Pen and ink drawing of a hilltop church with a bell tower, cypress tree, and brick arches in the foreground.

The Church of S. Gregorio Magno on the Celian Hill (verso)

Antonie van den Wyngaerde, 1553

Pencil drawing of large oak trees beside a dirt road leading to a ruined stone tower on the Appian Way.

Oaks along the Appian Way near Albano

Jean-Paul Flandrin, 1834

Watercolor of a rocky beach at low tide with layered cliffs, a moored boat, and distant sailboats under cloudy sky.

The Rocky Beach and Cliffs at Fécamp

Edward William Cooke, mid-1830s

Etching of classical ruins framed by a large arch, with Corinthian columns, a carved sarcophagus, a statue and small figures.

Ancient Forum Seen Beneath an Arch

Pierre Moreau, c. 1750

Brown ink drawing of an empty cartouche framed by a curtain, two female figures, theater mask garlands and an eagle with armo

A Cartouche with Theater Masks

Pierre Philippe Choffard