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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Studies of Figures

James Goodwyn Clonney, c. 1836-1843

Ink and wash drawing of robed figures and soldiers gathered around a young woman before a hillside, on blue-grey paper.

Jephthah's Daughter

Benjamin West, 1780-1810

Daumier lithograph: a top-hatted man with umbrella faces a hooded woman holding a lantern on a Paris street, 1857.

Précaution indispensable que prennent les Parisiens ...

Honoré Daumier, 1857

Lithograph of a man in a long coat pointing at a group of boys on a street, one boy holding a paper handbill.

Si tu veux, je t'achète deux cents billes ...

Honoré Daumier, 1857

Daumier lithograph of top-hatted spectators watching a race while fallen horses lie on the track in the foreground.

Ce qu'on appelle les plasirs du turf

Honoré Daumier, 1857

Lithograph of a man with spectacles and top hat reading a catalogue while a child points at sculptures in a gallery.

Papa ... viens donc voir ce qui est ...

Honoré Daumier, 1857

Daumier lithograph of a top-hatted Parisian man and a woman in striped skirt harvesting grapes among vines, with a basket of

Les parisiens en vendages

Honoré Daumier, 1857

Daumier lithograph of a man in a top hat, a woman with a grape basket, and a crouching child, with a crowd behind them.

Ayant abusé du raisin de 1857

Honoré Daumier, 1857

Daumier caricature of Archimedes seated at a lever lifting a whole fleet of sailing ships from the sea.

Archimède démontrant aux ingènieurs anglais ...

Honoré Daumier, 1857

Daumier lithograph of a butcher weighing meat while a stooped customer with a basket leans toward him in a shop.

Eh! Ben ... puisque vous voulez qu' les bouchers ...

Honoré Daumier, 1857

Pale green wash drawing of chalk cliffs and rolling hills under a cloudy sky, with dark rocks in the foreground.

Cliffs of Ecclesbourne Near Hastings

Thomas Moran, 1862

Etching of a stream lined with tall poplars and thick foliage, with two stags standing on the far bank.

Stags at the Waterside

Charles-François Daubigny, 1850

Lithograph of two men in top hats and an older woman in a bonnet talking on a city street, with French caption below.

Tiens, mon ami, voici M. Chapoulard ...

Honoré Daumier, 1853

Lithograph of women in enormous crinoline skirts in a park, with men in top hats behind them, satirizing fashion.

Ce ne sont plus des femmes, ce sont des ballons

Honoré Daumier, 1855

Lithograph of a crowded boulevard with top-hatted men and bonneted women among hanging bric-a-brac at a fair.

Aspect des boulevards pendant la foire aux bibelots

Honoré Daumier, 1856

Daumier caricature of a furious man kicking toward a startled man holding a newspaper, in an interior with a chair and table.

Fureur de Mr Cobden ...

Honoré Daumier, 1856

Daumier caricature of a woman offering an olive branch to three unenthusiastic men in top hats, lithograph, 1856.

Mmrs. Cobden, Gladsone et Brigth ...

Honoré Daumier, 1856

Lithograph of three men in top hats conversing, the central man in a dark robe gesturing, from Daumier's Types Parisiens.

He bien! t'ant pis!...nous plaiderons. j'aime mieux ça...

Honoré Daumier, 1839

Caricature lithograph of two exaggerated men staggering across a field, one holding the other's arm, with a house behind them

Ayant trop fêté la Saint-Hubert

Honoré Daumier, 1864

Pencil sketch of a hillside with tall stone houses on the right, small figures, trees, and a distant valley of fields.

Hillside with Houses and Figures

Worthington Whittredge, 1854-1859

Sketch in graphite and chalk on blue paper of figures in period dress, including a musician, seated couple, and dancers.

Study for "Dance on the Battery in Presence of Peter Stuyvesant"

Asher Brown Durand, c. 1838

Snow-covered city square with bare trees, sleighs and figures, and a long classical building under a grey snowy sky.

The Great Blizzard of 1899

Walter Paris, 1899

Charcoal study of two draped women carrying water jars, with faint grid lines, on tan paper.

Study for "The Danaïdes"

John Singer Sargent, 1922-1925

Pencil drawing of three trees in a meadow beside a shallow stream with reeds in the foreground.

Landscape with Three Trees

James Wells Champney, 1863

Lithograph of a couple in a wide crinoline dress with hens emerging from beneath the skirt, by Honoré Daumier, 1857.

Une erreur excuable

Honoré Daumier, 1857

Daumier lithograph of a mitred figure baptising a caricatured infant at a stone font, with a woman and two men watching.

Le Petit Thiers, Baptisé Doctrinaire

Honoré Daumier, 1835

Daumier lithograph of a reclining man in a carriage surrounded by crowds of top-hatted men reaching toward him, 1838.

Triomphe de la probité politique commerciale

Honoré Daumier, 1838

Caricature lithograph of three men in period dress, one in a tall top hat and spectacles, exchanging a handshake with a capti

Mon cher ami, je vous présent Monsieur...

Honoré Daumier, 1838

Lithograph of a man holding a laughing child while a woman sits behind them, printed over newspaper text.

Ma soeur disait comme ça, hier, qu'elle vous trouve trop laid!

Honoré Daumier, November 22, 1838

Un échantillon de ce qu'on appèll...les beaux de paris

Honoré Daumier, 1840