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National Gallery of Art

10,102 works

Painting of a two-masted pilot boat sailing past a stone fort with an American flag in a harbor under cloudy skies.

New York Harbor with Pilot Boat "George Washington"

Thomas Chambers, mid 19th century

Painting of an elderly man reading a newspaper beside a child in blue, with a woman knitting by a marble fireplace.

The Brown Family

Eastman Johnson, 1869

Painting of the white domed Taj Mahal with minarets, a red wall and a green tree in front under a pale blue sky.

The Taj Mahal

Erastus Salisbury Field, c. 1860/1880

Painting of a lake with lavender mountains in the distance, pine trees and a golden hillside framing the foreground.

Leverett Pond

Erastus Salisbury Field, c. 1860/1880

Double portrait of two young boys in blue jackets with white ruffled collars against a brown background.

The Congdon Brothers

Unknown artist, c. 1830

Naive painting of a village with red-coated soldiers marching past a stone-walled graveyard, a pond, and white houses.

View of Concord

Unknown artist, c. 1830

Painting of a crowded cobbled town square with a well, church tower, castle on a hill, and costumed townspeople.

The Marketplace in Bergen op Zoom

Abel Grimmer, probably 1590 and 1597

Loose painting of women in a theatre box with a green feathered fan and a red flower in one woman's hair.

The Loge

Edgar Degas, c. 1883

Two-masted schooner anchored on calm water at dusk, pink glow on the horizon, with a second ship and distant hills.

Lumber Schooners at Evening on Penobscot Bay

Fitz Henry Lane, 1863

Painting of a courtroom with two seated men, a standing official, and a woman in green holding a paper on a bench.

The Petition

Jean-Louis Forain, 1906

Loose oil sketch of a soldier carrying a limp figure as a woman follows, with smoke and fire behind them.

The Requisition

Jean-Louis Forain, c. 1919

Family group portrait of a seated man, a seated woman, two girls in white dresses, and a boy in a green jacket.

Family Group

Joshua Johnson, c. 1800

Painting of a Bucks County farm with a white house, gardens, barns, cattle, horses, and two men in the foreground.

Bucks County Farm Outside Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Unknown artist, c. 1890

Painting of the paddle steamship Erie on choppy green seas, with twin smokestacks, flags, and passengers on deck.

Steamship "Erie"

Unknown artist, probably 1837

Naive painting of a 19th-century racetrack with carriages, a finish stand flying an American flag, and spectators.

The Finish

Unknown artist, c. 1860

Still life painting of sliced watermelon wedges with black seeds arranged on a white plate on a table.

Watermelon on a Plate

Unknown artist, mid 19th century

Painting of a brown and white spotted prize bull standing in a green field beside a tree under a pink sky.

Prize Bull

Painting of Penn's treaty: colonial men in tricorn hats meet Native American figures under a large tree, with a ship on the w

Penn's Treaty with the Indians

Edward Hicks, c. 1840/1844

Painting of a farmhouse on a hill with grazing cattle, sheep, a shepherd in red, and tall trees under a cloudy sky.

The Grave of William Penn

Edward Hicks, c. 1847/1848

Painting of a European man in red standing in a canoe with Indigenous companions, palms and sailing ships on the shore.

The Landing of Columbus

Edward Hicks, c. 1837

Two girls in pink and yellow dresses stand with a toy lamb and a basket of flowers against a green background.

The Burnish Sisters

William Matthew Prior, 1854

Two girls in matching red dresses stand in a dark landscape, one holding an open book and the other a gold basket.

Sisters in Red

Sturtevant J. Hamblin, c. 1840/1850

Painting of a seated man smoking and reading by a fireplace with a dog, rifle, and deer head on the wall.

The Sportsman's Dream

C.F. Senior, 1881 or after

Folk painting of a large tabby cat holding a blue bird in its mouth, with a red cardinal and another bird in trees.

The Cat

Unknown artist, probably second half 19th century

Naive 1830s panorama of elegant figures on a hill overlooking a coast with ships, a carriage, a town, and a sun.

Horizon of the New World

Unknown artist, c. 1830

Painting of a crowded rural fair with a preacher on a red cart, a food stall, and a fallen soldier near marching troops.

Muster Day

Charles Henry Granger, 1843 or after

Painting of two sisters with curled hair and dark dresses, one with brown eyes and one with blue, against a pale background.

Sisters

Unknown artist, c. 1840

Naive painting of a copper bowl of fruit with watermelons and grapes on a yellow table between two plates, framed by blue dra

Bowl of Fruit

Unknown artist, c. 1830

Family group portrait of a man, woman, boy and two girls standing on a path under a large tree, c. 1830.

Dr. John Safford and Family

Reuben Rowley, c. 1830

Painting of a galloping brown horse in a open landscape, with a steam train in the distance on the left.

The Neigh of an Iron Horse

Joseph Anderson Faris, 186(?)