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National Gallery of Art

1,161 works

Etching of two sword fighters, a central framed rearing horse scene, and two standing men with canes.

Soldiers

Stefano Della Bella

Brown wash drawing of a wooded landscape with a road, tall trees, and a distant village under a hazy sky.

Wooded Landscape with a Road

Lodewijk de Vadder, mid-17th century

Ink and white-heightened drawing of a nude woman bathing while two bearded elders lean toward her beside a fountain.

Susanna and the Elders

Attributed to Sebald Beham

Charles-Georges Coqueley de Chaussepierre

Jean Francois Rousseau after Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, 1780

Black and white chalk drawing on blue paper of a bearded man's head turned sideways, resting on a faint platter outline.

Head of Saint John the Baptist

Francesco Marmitta, 15th century

Head of an Old Man (recto)

Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1631

Red chalk drawing of a leafy plant with budding stems growing from rocks, with a second sketched plant at upper right.

Flowering Plant with Buds

I Jean-Baptiste Hüet, mid 1760s

Ink sketch of an armored warrior on a rearing horse, arm raised, on toned paper.

Warrior in Renaissance Armor on a Rearing Horse

Workshop of Peter Vischer the Younger, c. 1530/1540

Watercolor drawing of a dying man on a blue bed attended by two haloed figures beneath a rainbow arc of angel faces.

The Death of Saint Joseph

William Blake, 1803

An Eagle

Titian, 1560/1565

Red chalk drawing of a heap of weathered boulders with small plants growing among the rocks on a pale sheet.

Weathered Boulders

Franz Edmund Weirotter, c. 1769

Circular engraving of Saint George on horseback spearing a dragon, with a kneeling woman, a lamb, and a castle behind.

Saint George and the Dragon

Israhel van Meckenem, c. 1465/1470

Pen and ink study of robed figures gathered beneath a large arch and columns in a stone interior with steps.

Study after Old Master

Elihu Vedder, c. 1858

Pencil sketch of two women with jars on their heads beside a market stall, with a donkey and figures in the foreground.

Son and Donkey

Elihu Vedder, c. 1859

Circular study of a seated nude woman with a lyre, drawn in charcoal and white chalk on toned paper.

Study for "Music"

Elihu Vedder, c. 1890

Pencil and red chalk sketch of a scowling bald man with caricatured faces and creatures, handwritten notes and red arrows.

Self-Portrait: Caricatures

Elihu Vedder, c. 1918

Black chalk drawing of a young man's head tilted downward, with shoulder-length hair and lowered eyes on toned paper.

Head of a Young Man [recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1650

Brown wash drawing of a bearded man in a turban leaning on a sill, looking out, with white highlights on draped fabric.

A Man Looking Out a Window

Bonifazio Veronese

Ink and wash ceiling study showing allegorical figures, cherubs and clouds within an octagonal frame.

Study for a Ceiling: Allegory of the Harvest with Dionysus and Ceres

Engraving of robed senators and armored soldiers in a Roman-style procession passing a brick arcade with onlookers.

The Triumph of Caesar: The Senators

Workshop of Andrea Mantegna, before 1506

Drawing of a bearded man in a feathered hat with a round medallion, rendered in graphite and red chalk on pale paper.

Portrait of a Man Wearing a Hat with a Medallion

Unknown artist, 1520/1540

Circular engraving of the muse Clio seated by books and a tree, gesturing toward a battle scene in the mountains.

Clio

Crispijn de Passe I

Four loose black-line sketches of children's heads on cream paper, with a signature at lower right.

Kinderköpfe (Heads of Children)

Lovis Corinth, 1914

Pen and brown ink sketch of a turbaned figure with a scepter beside two seated men, on a pale sheet.

Esther before Ahasuerus

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1655/1660

Three Oriental Heads

John Hamilton Mortimer, 1770/1775

Two Oriental Heads

John Hamilton Mortimer, 1770/1775

Architectural drawing with interior view, cross-section, floor plan and exterior elevation of a triangular church with dome.

Three Views and a Plan of a Triangular Parish Church

Pierre Varin, c. 1750

Engraved architectural drawing of a classical temple interior with Corinthian columns, a central statue, and a barrel-vaulted

Interior of a Temple

Pierre Varin, c. 1750

Red chalk drawing of an allegory with a youth holding a wreath, helmeted warrior, and figures on clouds in an oval.

Allegory of Fame

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, 1773

Circular drawing of a nude figure falling through the sky above a landscape, with crowns, scepter and orb in the foreground.

Man Falling from the Sky

Unknown artist