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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Pencil drawing of a river with a multi-arched stone bridge, rocky banks, horses and figures, and a hillside town beyond.

St. Cloud

after John Frederick Kensett Anonymous, 1843

Pencil sketch of covered cannon on wheeled carriages with wagons at left and right, drawn by John Singer Sargent in 1918.

Cannon Trailers, France

John Singer Sargent, 1918

Pencil and wash sketch of an Italian villa with cypress trees on a hillside, with a bare tree at the left edge.

Italian Villa [recto]

John Singer Sargent, 1870-1872

Study drawing of a winged female nude seated beside a large sphere and open book, in grey chalk on green paper.

Study for "The Eclipse of the Sun by the Moon"

Elihu Vedder, 1892

Grey wash drawing of a chaotic city street with carriages, a crowd, fallen figures, and classical buildings.

New York - Street Scene

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1859-1868

Pencil and wash drawing of leafless trees on a misty hillside with a small dog in the lower left foreground.

The First Snowfall

Arthur Bowen Davies, c. 1877-1887

Daumier lithograph of a caricatured man in a cloak leaving a sign reading Valachie, watched by a thin man and a small soldier

Quittant le valachie

Honoré Daumier, 1854

Pencil and watercolor drawing of Gothic church ruins with tracery windows, a tree, and stone steps on a rocky slope.

Cathedral Ruins, Bacharach

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1841

Nude Study

William P. Babcock, 1860s-1870s

Pencil and white chalk drawing of a lake with a church steeple, village, and snow-capped mountains behind it.

Lake of Brienz

John William Casilear, late 19th century

Pencil sketch of rolling mountains with pine trees in the foreground and two small figures on a rocky ledge.

Mountain Landscape

John William Casilear, late 19th century

Watercolor of a rustic cottage with tall chimneys, a wooden fence, and a tree, by Cornelius Varley, 1806.

A House, West Humble Lane, Norbury, Surrey

Cornelius Varley, 1806

Grey cloth-bound album cover with gold ALBUM lettering and gilt corner ornaments, with brown cords on the edges.

Souvenir Album with Views of Naples, Southern Italy, and Sicily

Antonio Senape, 1848

Grey wash drawing of a cavalry and infantry battle along a river, with fallen horses and soldiers and a sunburst sky.

Battle by a River

Dirk Langendijk, 1780

Etching of a reclining figure with a boar, hound, cauldron and winged putti pouring water in a cloudy sky.

Allegory of Winter with Diana the Huntress

Johann Georg Bergmüller, c. 1750

Black-and-white print of nude women dancing in angular poses around a large black shadow shape in the center.

Nudes Dancing around a Shadow

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1936

Fan-shaped print with concentric bands of classical figures processing toward a seated figure, bordered by flowers and medall

A Fan with Classical Figures Processing to Apollo

Unknown artist, c. 1795

Watercolor of a dark rocky grotto interior with light breaking through openings in the stone walls.

Grotto Interior

David Cox, c. 1850

Satirical lithograph of personified planets seated on clouds, one with a flute and one with a telescope, awaiting a comet.

Les planetes étant elles-mêmes

Honoré Daumier, 1857

Lithograph of two women, one lifting her skirt to show goods hidden in a large crinoline, with a bottle and bread at left.

De l'utilité de la crinoline pour frauder l'octroi

Honoré Daumier, 1857

Daumier lithograph of a woman reading a script beside a toppled table and ladder, with a fallen child on the floor.

Toute entière a l'etude de son role ...

Honoré Daumier, 1858

Daumier lithograph of a couple seated on a huge crinoline skirt while three hens peck at its hem in a rural setting.

Une erreur excusable

Honoré Daumier, 1857

Pencil and chalk drawing of workmen hauling ice blocks toward a horse-drawn cart beside bare winter trees.

Workmen Gathering Ice at the Water's Edge

François Hippolyte Lalaisse, c. 1850

Grey wash drawing with white highlights showing a centaur embracing a woman in the center, with smaller studies of centaurs a

Nessus and Dejanira in Four Poses, and the Dying Nessus

François Hippolyte Lalaisse, 1830s

Etching of a crowded banquet in a columned hall, with seated diners, servants, and a dog in the foreground.

The Feast in the House of Simon

Pierre-Hubert Subleyras, 1738

Grey wash drawing of a trompe-l'oeil coffered ceiling with receding columns and a central panel of sketched putti and clouds.

Design for a Trompe-l'oeil Ceiling Decoration

Pietro de Angelis, c. 1780

Engraved perspective of a classical hall with rows of columns, a barrel vault with oval openings, and a tiled floor.

A Hall with a Barrel Vault

Lucas van Doetechum and Johannes van Doetechum, the Elder, after Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1560

Etching of partly ruined Roman baths with arches, classical statues, a fountain, an obelisk and small figures in the foregrou

Veterum Romanorum Thermae semirutae

Pietro Gaspari, 1771

Watercolor of three travellers resting beside a path in a shaded woodland glade with large trees and a fallen log.

Travellers in a Woodland Glade

William Payne, c. 1800

Watercolor of a ruined abbey with ivy beside a waterfall, three figures on a path, hills in the distance.

A Ruined Abbey by a Waterfall

William Payne, c. 1800