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National Gallery of Art

14,495 works

Full-length portrait of a man in a brown coat and yellow waistcoat holding a hat and cane in an open landscape.

John Musters

Joshua Reynolds, 1777-c. 1780

Full-length portrait of a young child in a white dress and blue sash, holding flowers and a black hat in a wooded landscape.

Master John Heathcote

Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1771/1772

Portrait of a woman with upswept brown hair in a white dress and pale blue collar against a soft blue-green background.

Madame Henriot

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1876

Portrait of a gray-haired man in a red military uniform with gold braid, star medals, and a blue sash against a dark backgrou

Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton

William Beechey, 1815/1817

Portrait of a woman in a blue dress and pink shawl holding pearls, with a tree and landscape behind her.

Elizabeth Fulford Welshman

John Greenwood, 1749

Portrait of a man in a navy coat and yellow waistcoat holding a rifle beside a tree, with a landscape behind him.

William Yelverton Davenport

Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1785/1788

Mrs. Thomas Horne

Francis Cotes, c. 1768/1770

Half-length portrait of a woman in a black dress with a large white lace ruff and pearl necklace, against a dark background.

Portrait of a Lady with a Ruff

Michiel van Miereveld, 1638

Still life painting of a glass vase holding white peonies, striped tulips and roses on a stone ledge, with butterflies and a

Vase of Flowers

Jan Davidsz. de Heem, c. 1660

Oil portrait of a man with curly hair in a dark fur-collared coat and white cravat against a dark background.

John Smith Warner (?)

Unknown artist, c. 1827

Gold-ground painting of the Crucifixion with Christ on the cross, angels, grieving women and John, and soldiers at right.

The Crucifixion

Bernardo Daddi, c. 1320/1325

Painting of Saint Sebastian, bound and pierced by arrows, gazing upward against a black background with stone reliefs below.

Saint Sebastian

Amico Aspertini, c. 1505

Painting of a helmeted youth in red cloak confronting a crowned man with raised sword at a banquet, with startled onlookers a

Alexander the Great Threatened by His Father

Donato Creti, probably 1700/1705

Painting of the infant Bacchus in a blue tunic with an ivy wreath, holding a golden jug in a hilly landscape.

The Infant Bacchus

Giovanni Bellini, probably 1505/1510

Portrait of a woman in a red embroidered gown with pearl necklace against a red drapery background.

Eleonora di Toledo

Bronzino, c. 1560

Painting of the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child, with two cherub heads above and a landscape with castle and deer behind

Madonna and Child

Vittore Carpaccio, c. 1505/1510

Kneeling man in black robe and red mantle praying before an open doorway with a brick wall and hilly landscape beyond.

Portrait of a Male Donor

Petrus Christus, c. 1455

Kneeling woman in red velvet gown and veil at a prayer book, with an arched window showing a river landscape.

Portrait of a Female Donor

Petrus Christus, c. 1455

Saint Helena holds a wooden cross in a landscape with a hilltop town, wearing a gold crown and red mantle.

Saint Helena

Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, c. 1495

Painting of a nude woman with a jeweled headdress beside a nursing woman, a child, and a servant in a red-curtained interior.

A Lady in Her Bath

François Clouet, c. 1571

Full-length portrait of a standing man in a blue military coat and white breeches beside a gilded chair and desk in a study.

The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries

Jacques-Louis David, 1812

Seated woman in white satin gown, red shawl and tall white feathered headdress, against a dark brown background.

Madame David

Jacques-Louis David, 1813

Rococo painting of a woman in pink and yellow swinging under tall trees, with companions below and a cloudy sky.

The Swing

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1775/1780

Half-length oil portrait of a young man with powdered hair, grey coat and green-ribboned white cravat, against a brown backgr

Portrait of a Young Man

Unknown artist, possibly c. 1770

Painting of Christ crucified with a crown of thorns, flanked by three mourners in a dark landscape under a night sky.

The Small Crucifixion

Matthias Grünewald, c. 1511/1520

Seated cardinal in red robes and biretta holding a small book, against a dark velvet curtain, painted by Guercino.

Cardinal Francesco Cennini

Painting of the Annunciation: an angel with a sceptre greets a seated woman reading, with a white dove and lilies.

The Annunciation

Juan de Flandes, c. 1508/1519

Portrait of a Young Man

Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1520/1530

Painting of the Nativity: kneeling Virgin in blue mantle, infant Christ, Saint Joseph, ox and donkey, angel with scroll above

The Nativity

Juan de Flandes, c. 1508/1519

Virgin Mary holds the Christ Child while a kneeling king offers a gold casket beneath a star, with attendants and a processio

The Adoration of the Magi

Juan de Flandes, c. 1508/1519