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National Gallery of Art

14,479 works

Watercolor of a Gothic church burning on a hill, with a dark demonic figure looming above and small figures below.

An Ecclesiastic Building in Flames with Demons Above

Etching of a ruined tower and stone arch on a hillside, with a shepherd and flock of sheep on a dirt path.

The Town of Leoni, near Frascati

Bartholomeus Breenbergh, 1640

Etching of the Holy Family resting under a tree, with an angel offering fruit to the infant Christ beside a river landscape.

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi ?

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded man in a jacket, shown in a ruled border on brown paper, signed Henri Rousseau.

Self-Portrait

Henri Rousseau, 1895

Pen and ink sketch of a man seen from behind at an easel, studying a painted portrait head of an older man.

George Reynolds

John Quincy Adams Ward, 1859

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded sculptor working with a tool on a female bust seated on a tall stand.

Johnson Mundy, Sculptor

John Quincy Adams Ward, 1857

Sketching - George Fuller

John Quincy Adams Ward, 1858

Sketching - Emanuel Leutze

John Quincy Adams Ward, 1858

Etching of an executioner raising a sword above a headless body, with a severed head on the floor and onlookers in a dim pris

Beheading of John the Baptist

Rembrandt van Rijn and Studio of Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1627

Pen and ink sketch of a bearded man seated on a stool, painting at an easel, with a handwritten caption dated 1860.

Sketch Class Series - E.W. Perry

John Quincy Adams Ward, 1860

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded man in a top hat seated on a stool beside an ornate stove, dated 1859.

H.K. Brown

John Quincy Adams Ward, 1859

Etching of a seated philosopher resting his head in meditation among skulls, bones, a large tree, an owl and classical ruins.

Democritus in Meditation

Salvator Rosa, 1662

Etching of Glaucus and Scylla: a bearded sea figure with a serpent tail reaches toward a draped woman on a rocky shore.

Glaucus and Scylla

Salvator Rosa, 1615-1673

Etching of bearded philosophers in robes conversing among tall trees in a forest, with a kneeling figure writing at lower lef

The Academy of Plato

Etching of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, kneeling kings, horses, and angels around a radiant star.

The Adoration of the Magi

Pietro Testa, c. 1640

Etching of the infant Christ embracing a cross with the Virgin, angels and cherubs, under a tree in clouds.

The Infant Christ Embracing the Cross (The Dream of Joseph)

Pietro Testa, 1635/1637

Etching of a seated woman surrounded by playful nude putti among large trees, with a distant landscape.

Young Woman, Surrounded by Cupids (The Garden of Charity, vertical version)

Woodcut of The Entombment showing a nude body being lowered by bearded men beside a large tree and hooded mourners.

The Entombment

Giuseppe Scolari, 1592/1607

Etching of stooped peasant women working among bean plants in a field, with a pale horizon behind them.

Peasants in a Field of Beans (Paysannes dans un champ de haricots)

Camille Pissarro, 1891

Print of a young man handing a letter to a seated woman in a draped interior with a parrot, dog, and standing attendant.

Boy Delivering a Letter to a Woman

Etching of bearded men gathered by two reclining bodies in a dim, wooded cave lit by a central glow.

The Bodies of Saints Peter and Paul Hidden in the Catacombs

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, c. 1645/1647

Hand-colored plate of a black male and brown female thrush perched on rocks with leaves, labeled Turdus Poecilopterus.

Turdus Poecilopterus (Aztec Thrush)

Elizabeth Gould

Hand-colored print of two sicklebill birds of paradise on a branch, one male with red wing plumes and a curved black bill.

Drepanornis albertisi (Black-billed Sicklebill Bird of Paradise)

John Gould and W. Hart

Hand-colored print of a grey bird with a black crest and red bill and legs, perched on a branch beside leafy twigs.

Hypsipetes Psaroides (Black Bulbul)

Elizabeth Gould

Hand-colored bird plate of a blue male and a brown female Blue Rockthrush on rocks with grass, captioned Petrocossyphus cyanu

Petrocossyphus cyanus (Blue Rockthrush)

John Gould and H.C. Richter

Hand-colored print of two dunnock birds, one on a bramble branch and one on a mossy log beside a red fungus.

Accentor modularis (Dunnock)

John Gould and H.C. Richter

Brown ink and wash drawing of a reclining bearded man beneath processions of figures, dragons, and a radiant sun.

The Dream of Mordecai

Giovanni Guerra

Hand-coloured plate of two greenfinches and a nest of fledglings among hawthorn branches with pink blossoms.

Ligurinus chloris (Greenfinch)

John Gould and H.C. Richter

Hand-colored plate of a black and white bird with a white crown and orange legs standing on the ground.

Enicurus Scouleri (Little Forktail)

Elizabeth Gould

Hand-colored plate of two Diphyllodes chrysoptera birds of paradise on branches with berries and leaves.

Diphyllodes chrysoptera (Magnificent Bird of Paradise)

John Gould and W. Hart