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National Gallery of Art

14,479 works

Grid of twelve gold-printed scenes on dark paper, each labeled with a month, showing rural and seasonal activities.

Endpaper with the Twelve Months

Unknown artist

Orange sheet with twelve gold-toned standing costumed figures in arched frames, with animal vignettes along the bottom row.

Endpaper with Twelve Standing Figures

Unknown artist

Engraving of a drummer striking a kettle drum beside a fife player with a small drum, with German text below.

Die Herpavck vnd andere Drvmmen zvernst vnd Schimpf wir lassen ervmmen

Unknown artist, c. 1580

Three bearded men in feathered hats play flutes together in a hand-colored German print from around 1580.

Gantz loblich Pfeiffen wir all drei avs der Mvsic: Schon Melodey

Unknown artist, c. 1580

Engraving of three seated musicians playing lute, harp and wind instrument, with German verse text below.

Die Instrvment gantz lvstig Kling vorab wen man darein tvt singen

Unknown artist, c. 1580

Engraving of five singers gathered around a table reading songbooks, one marked BAS, under a draped canopy with vine decorati

Liblich singen wir avs der Mass den Tenor discant Alt und Bass

Unknown artist, c. 1580

Engraving of three bearded men in feathered caps playing stringed instruments, with German verse text below.

Nach der Mvsic: Geigen wir drei gantz Kvnstlice vnd artliche dabei

Unknown artist, c. 1580

Engraving of a man playing a lute beside a woman at a positive organ, with German inscription below.

Ich schlag das Positif mit Schall die Zytternavchmacht frolich all

Unknown artist, c. 1580

Engraving of a draped female figure playing panpipes beside a blank disc, with a hilly landscape behind her.

Polimnia (Polyhymnia)

Master of the E-Series Tarocchi, c. 1465

Engraving of Venus with a winged Cupid holding a bow, nude nymphs on a rocky shore, and birds flying in the sky.

Venus

Master of the E-Series Tarocchi, c. 1465

Pen and wash drawing of the Flight into Egypt with Mary, the Christ child, Joseph and a donkey, plus sketches and Latin text.

The Flight into Egypt [recto]

Unknown artist, early 15th century

Pen and brown ink sketch on paper with figures in framed registers and handwritten Latin text at the top and sides.

The Destruction of the Egyptian Idols [verso]

Unknown artist, early 15th century

Engraving of a haloed saint gesturing to a figure on a rocky hillside, with a city and clouds in the background.

Saint Filippo Benizzi Healing a Beggar

After Andrea del Sarto, c. 1510/1520

Woodcut of the crowned Madonna seated on a grassy bank holding the Christ child, with a castle and river in the background.

Madonna and Child on the Grassy Bank

Hans Baldung Grien, 1505

Woodcut of Saint Colomannus with halo and pilgrim staff in a landscape beside a tree and a lion coat of arms.

Saint Colomannus

Willem Liefrinck after Leonhard Beck, 1516/1518

Woodcut of a bishop saint with halo and crozier, an angel in the clouds above a town, and a lion coat of arms.

Saint Goericus

after Leonhard Beck Cornelis Liefrinck, 1516/1518

Woodcut of Saint Gudila with a halo, holding a staff while a winged demon pours from a pitcher in a Gothic interior.

Saint Gudila

Willem Liefrinck after Leonhard Beck, 1516/1518

Woodcut of Saint Jodocus with halo and pilgrim staff standing in an arched niche, with a castle landscape and heraldic shield

Saint Jodocus

Leonhard Beck, 1516/1518

Woodcut of a haloed pope with crosier beside a sick figure in bed, under a papal coat of arms with crossed keys.

Saint Leo (Pope Leo IX)

Leonhard Beck, 1516/1518

Woodcut of a bearded saint with a halo holding a rosary, standing among pine trees with a dragon and a distant castle.

Saint Ramaricus

Leonhard Beck, 1516/1518

Woodcut of a crowned, haloed saint with staff and patterned robe beside a heraldic shield and arched doorway.

Saint Rudolfus

Leonhard Beck, 1516/1518

Woodcut of crowned Saint Rupertus in armor with halo, holding a staff, an angel above, and a fortified town behind him.

Saint Rupertus

Leonhard Beck, 1516/1518

Woodcut print of crowned Saint Sigismundus with halo and scepter in a cobbled courtyard, beside a heraldic shield and attenda

Saint Sigismundus

Cornelis Liefrinck after Leonhard Beck, 1516/1518

Woodcut of a haloed saint pouring water for a kneeling man beside arcaded buildings, a fountain and a shield of arms.

Saint Verona

Leonhard Beck, 1516/1518

Woodcut of a haloed saint in a hooded robe pointing toward a ship, with a coat of arms, a city, and mountains behind.

Saint Walpurgis

Leonhard Beck, 1516/1518

Woodcut of Saint Willibaldus pointing at a woodcutter felling a tree, with a coat of arms and village behind.

Saint Willibaldus

Leonhard Beck, 1516/1518

Etching of two fighting beggars, one raising a club, with a dog at the lower left and crosshatched background.

Fighting Beggars

Jacques Bellange, c. 1612-1616

Pencil drawing of a standing male figure seen from behind, with curly hair, ribbons, pleated sleeves and boots.

Standing Figure [recto]

After Jacques Bellange

Engraving of an old woman seated on a sack dropping coins while children crawl to collect them, with a Latin caption below.

The Man with the Moneybag and His Flatterers

Johann Theodor de Bry after Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Engraving of peasants linked arm in arm walking past tall trees toward a distant town in a rural landscape.

Epileptics Walking to the Right

Hendrik Hondius I after Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1642