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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Charcoal drawing of gondolas along Venice's Palazzo Ducale and Piazzetta at night, with reflections in the water.

Memory of Venice: the Palazzo Ducale and the Piazzetta

Eugène Vail, c. 1900-1920

Charcoal drawing of dark silhouetted figures crossing a stepped bridge beneath arched buildings in dim light.

Bridge, Venice

Eugène Vail, c. 1900-1920

Pastel sketch of a Nile landscape with ruined columns on the horizon, green fields, shrubs, and a stone wall in the foregroun

Nile Journey, No. 15

Elihu Vedder, 1890

Pastel drawing of camels and seated figures resting in a desert landscape with red rock formations and blue sky.

Nile Journey, No. 20

Elihu Vedder, 1890

Pastel drawing of large dark boulders in a calm river with tan hills and a pale sky behind them.

Nile Journey, No. 22

Elihu Vedder, 1890

Charcoal sketch of robed figures standing and kneeling in a shadowy group beneath a dark, cloudy sky.

Group of Figures

Robert Walter Weir, early 19th century

Caricature lithograph of a crowded double-decker omnibus with top-hatted passengers on its roof and inside, by Honoré Daumier

Vue ... et elévation des ... omnibus du boulevard ...

Honoré Daumier, 1853

Watercolor sketch of a flat landscape with trees, a green meadow, a small figure, and a distant skyline under gray sky.

Marsh in Zeeland

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1900

Pencil sketch of lake houses with moored rowboats, a wooden pier, trees, and mountains in the background.

Lake Houses

Worthington Whittredge, late 19th century

Watercolor of a shaded Moorish-style arcade with donkeys and resting robed figures beneath a carved lattice balcony.

A Street in Tangiers

Mariano Fortuny Marsal, 1860 or 1862

Drawing of three standing men in long robes, one with a wide-brimmed hat, with white highlights on grey paper.

Three Figures

School of Carpaccio

Watercolor of a marshy plain at sunset with glowing reflections in water and silhouetted trees on the horizon.

Vicinity of Morestal

François-Auguste Ravier, c. 1890

Watercolor landscape of a flat plain at sunset with leaning bare trees on the left and distant hills under an orange sky.

Environs de Cremieu

François-Auguste Ravier, c. 1890

Grey-toned drawing of a crowd of richly dressed figures before a gothic palace with a balcony and garden.

David and Bathsheba

Jan van Roome, c. 1515

Watercolor of a brown and white cow grazing in a green meadow with trees, a fence, and a cloudy sky.

Landscape with a Cow

Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, late 19th century

Charcoal sketch of several nude male figures with raised arms and turned heads, studies for a larger composition.

Studies for "Heaven" and "Hell"

John Singer Sargent, 1903-1916

Charcoal study of three standing officers in military uniforms, one cropped to legs and boots, on pale paper.

Studies for "General Officers of World War I"

John Singer Sargent, 1920-1922

Pencil study in an oval: a central nude figure on a pedestal, a satyr at left, draped women at right.

Study for "Classic and Romantic Art"

John Singer Sargent, c. 1921

Charcoal study of a muscular male nude with raised and outstretched arms, drawn on cream paper.

Studies of Achilles for "Chiron and Achilles"

John Singer Sargent, 1922-1925

Charcoal study of a kneeling nude figure seen from behind with raised arms, beside a sketch of curly hair.

Studies for "The Unveiling of Truth"

John Singer Sargent, 1922-1925

Pencil study on tan paper of Apollo with a halo surrounded by dancing draped female figures in an oval composition.

Study for "Apollo and the Muses"

John Singer Sargent, c. 1921

Charcoal studies of a male nude figure carrying a large sphere, with smaller sketches of hands holding spheres on tan paper.

Studies of Notus for "The Winds"

John Singer Sargent, 1922-1925

Pencil sketch study sheet of oxen, showing a yoked pair, cow heads, horns, and a wooden cart.

Studies of Oxen

Walter Shirlaw, late 19th century

Charcoal study of a seated male nude with outstretched arms, drawn on cream paper by John Singer Sargent.

Study for "Arion"

John Singer Sargent, 1919-1920

Studies for "Apollo in His Chariot with the Hours"

John Singer Sargent, 1922-1925

Charcoal study of a seated nude man on a curved ledge, one arm raised, by John Singer Sargent, 1919-1920.

Study for Figure above "Music"

John Singer Sargent, 1919-1920

Pencil sketch of boulders and shrubs beside a sloping rocky bank with trees, inscribed Hintersee 1871.

Hintersee, Germany

John Singer Sargent, 1871

Pencil sketch of a wooden Swiss chalet on a lakeshore with misty mountains rising behind it.

Swiss Chalet

John Singer Sargent, 1869

Daumier lithograph of two men carrying a stretcher with a figure dressed as a grape cluster, workers in a vineyard behind.

Faut pas vous désoler comme ca ...

Honoré Daumier, 1853

Charcoal study on grey paper of a male arm and torso with drapery over a vertical pole, by John Singer Sargent.

Study of Adam for the "Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary"

John Singer Sargent, 1903-1916