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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Watercolor of ruined brick buildings and a standing figure in a town street, with distant trees and boat masts behind.

Ruins of a Tavern, Petersburg, Virginia

Jr William Skinner Simpson, c. 1845

Pencil sketch of cavalry soldiers in battle, with raised sabres, a fallen horse and rider, and a horseman charging across a f

Cavaliers in Battle

Asa B. Sizer, c. 1820

Daumier lithograph of seated theatre audience women and top-hatted men in the foreground, with a stage and couple at right.

Ce qui nous prouve comme quoi il est ... inutile ...

Honoré Daumier, 1857

Pencil drawing of the U.S. Capitol dome rising above brick rooftops and chimneys under a pale sky.

Capitol, Washington

George Strickland, 1837

Daumier caricature of a man in uniform frowning at a woman in a huge crinoline gown in a garden, 1857.

J'aimerais autant voir un ouragan se promener dans mon jardin qu'une de ces satanées crinolines!

Honoré Daumier, September 9, 1857

Daumier lithograph of two cloaked figures beneath a comet and a glowing sun, one woman wringing her hands in alarm.

Ah! Ma pauv' Madame Chaffarou ...

Honoré Daumier, 1857

Daumier lithograph of a startled man holding a framed still life of a candle, with another figure carrying a canvas behind hi

Ils m'ont refusé ca ...

Honoré Daumier, 1859

Pen and ink drawing of a bear lying in grass beside a bench with two straw beehives under trees.

Bear Stung by Bees

William Holbrook Beard, 1865-1895

Watercolor of Half Dome and Royal Arches in Yosemite with pale granite cliffs, shadowed valley and stormy sky.

Half Dome and Royal Arches, Yosemite, from Glacier Point

Samuel Colman, c. 1870

Graphite study of pioneer families on rocky ground, a man in a fur hat pointing west, with grid lines visible.

Study for "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way"

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, c. 1862

Pencil sketch of steep rocky cliffs and a winding creek in a canyon, with scattered trees along the valley floor.

Clear Creek Canyon, Rocky Mountains, Colorado

Ralph Albert Blakelock, c. 1869

Daumier lithograph of provincial visitors at the Louvre gallery and the Jardin des Plantes, with a copyist and a cat behind r

Dans la galerie du Louvre

Honoré Daumier, 1853

Brown wash drawing of four men seated around a table in conversation, one smoking a pipe, with faint sketches of heads.

Fishermen

Adolph Menzel, c. 1850

Etching of Westminster Abbey's chancel with Gothic arches, an ornate tomb behind iron railing, and visitors near the pews.

Westminster Abbey, View of the Chancel from the South Transept

Axel Herman Haig, 1885

Etching of two thatched rural cottages by a stream with a windmill, tall trees, and children resting in the grass.

Les Deux Bourrines

Louis Auguste Lepère

Pen and ink study of two embracing figures in period dress, with smaller sketches and handwritten notes on pale paper.

Study for "The Return of King Friedrich II from Küstrin"

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, c. 1850s

Pencil sketch of a crowd of bearded men in seventeenth-century hats and cloaks, finished at left and faint toward right.

Men in Seventeenth-Century Costumes [recto]

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, c. 1850s

Sketch of the Ponte Vecchio over the Arno with buildings, a tower and a dome behind it, drawn in soft grey tones.

Ponte Vecchio, Florence [recto]

John Singer Sargent, 1870-1872

Pencil sketch of a monastery with a bell tower and cypress trees on a hillside under a soft sky.

Monastery [recto]

John Singer Sargent, 1870-1872

Pencil sketch of a valley village below steep mountains, with grazing animals in the foreground and a dated inscription.

Weser

John William Casilear, 1842

Graphite sketch of a seated man in a pith helmet looking over a rolling landscape with distant hills and trees.

Study for "White Mountains from North Conway, New Hampshire" [recto]

David Johnson, 1851

Horse

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, c. 1860s

Graphite sketch of large oak trees in a field, with a seated figure at the trunk and a standing man with a staff at left.

By the Old Oak Trees

James Goodwyn Clonney, 1839

Watercolor of a country road with a horse cart, a leaning tree, and hazy blue mountains beyond a village.

A Gleamy Effect - Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania

George Harvey, 1835-1840

Brown leather album cover with gold lettering reading Album of Virginia, illustrated by Ed. Beyer, 1858.

Album of Virginia

Edward Beyer, 1857-1858

Watercolor and pencil study of a weathered wooden well, two wooden troughs, planks and sketched tools on tan paper.

Studies of a Well and Wooden Trough

Jr Enoch Wood Perry, c. 1870-1900

Watercolor of an elephant with riders in a howdah turning away from a snarling tiger on an open grassy plain.

The Tiger Hunt

Antoine-Louis Barye, c. 1836

Brown and white drawing of soldiers charging with bayonets, a flag bearer at center, and fallen soldiers in the foreground.

Battle Charge

Hammat Billings, 1865-1874

Graphite and chalk sketch of a wooded valley with tall trees and an open field, on tan paper, dated 1852.

Sherberne Valley

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1852

Etching of two steamboats with tall smokestacks moored by a riverbank, with a bridge and buildings in the background.

Bateaux sur la Seine