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National Gallery of Art

25,760 works

Brown-toned print of a reclining figure, a candle, shadowy figures, and a radiant sun with a face in the upper left.

Te Po (The Long Night)

Paul Gauguin, 1894/1895

Lithograph of two girls seated on a bench in a dim wooden barn, with a figure visible through a doorway on the right.

Untitled (2 girls in a barn)

Daniel A. Wehrschmidt, 1917

Dark woodcut print of swirling waves and figures, with pale lines and red accents, inscribed L'Univers est créé.

The Universe is Created (L'Univers est créé)

Paul Gauguin, c. 1894

Etching of a crowd of raised arms and tools surging forward, with a dark banner at right and a pale flying figure above.

Revolt (Aufruhr)

Käthe Kollwitz, 1899

Engraving of nude smiths hammering at an anvil in a stone forge, with Venus and Cupid at the right.

Venus at Vulcan's Forge

Etching of a young girl's head and shoulders, turned slightly left, with dark hair and fine hatched shading.

Head of a Young Girl (Tete de jeune fille)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of robed singers gathered at a lit lectern with an open book in a dim church interior.

Spanish Singers (Les chantres espagnols)

Alphonse Legros, 1865

Etching of two cloaked men beside a stone doorway, one looking upward and the other bowing his head.

Saint Peter and Saint Paul in the Door of M. Richard (St. Pierre et St. Paul a la porte de M. Richard

Alphonse Legros

Etched bust portrait of an elderly bearded man with a bald crown, turned three-quarters, on pale paper.

G.F. Watts, R.A.

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a sunlit hillside with a leaning tree on the left, grassy slope, rocky ledge, and pale sky.

Farm on a Hillside in Sunlight (La ferme du coteau; Effet de soleil sur le coteau)

Alphonse Legros

Brown and grey wash drawing of cattle, deer, a milkmaid and herdsman in a meadow beneath large trees.

A Meadow with Cattle and Deer

Francis Barlow, 1684

Chalk drawing of a bearded head of Christ wearing a crown of thorns, gazing upward, with white highlights on tan paper.

Head of Christ

Johann Ulrich Mayr, 1670

Etching of a marsh with a still pool, reeds, shrubs and trees beneath a wide, empty sky.

Marsh (Les marais)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of an elderly bearded man seated and leaning forward, hands clasped, rendered in dense cross-hatched lines.

Paralytic (Le paralytique)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of an elderly man writing at a desk beside a lit candle, with dense hatched shadows around him.

Archeologist (L'archeologue)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of slender birch trees along a riverbank with reflections in still water beneath a pale sky.

Birch Trees: Water's Edge Seen in Morning Light (Les bouleaux: Bord de l'eau, effet du matin

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a bent figure carrying a long log through a dark wooded landscape toward a bright opening of light.

Return to the Cottage (Le retour a la chaumiere)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a crumbling stone arch partly hidden by overgrown shrubs, with a path and distant ruins under a pale sky.

Roman Ruin (Ruine romaine)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a rainy forest scene with dark trees, foliage and diagonal rain falling through light at upper right.

Memories of Fountainebleau in the Rain (Souvenir de Fountainebleau (Effet de pluie))

Alphonse Legros

Etching of slender trees framing a bright sunrise opening in a dense woods, with crosshatched undergrowth.

Sunrise, Woods of Clamard (Lever du soleil, bois de Clamard)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a ruined stone tower and an arched wall behind windswept pine trees, with birds flying across the sky.

Ruins of a Monastery (Les ruines du monastere)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a wide rolling plain with hedgerows, fields, a distant tree line, and small figures in the foreground.

Plain (La plaine)

Alphonse Legros

Misty mountain valley with two figures leaning over rocks at right, drawn in soft washes of blue, ochre and grey.

Mountain Landscape with two Figures at the Right

Alphonse Legros, 1905

Etching of a figure in a hat walking a shaded forest path beside tall trees, with an opening of light sky on the right.

Return from the Plowing (Le retour de labourage)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of an elderly bald man with a long beard, head bent over an open book he is reading.

Study of the Head of a Man Reading (Etude de tete d'homme lisant)

Alphonse Legros

Etched portrait of an elderly bearded man with bowed head, rendered in dense crosshatched lines on a dark ground.

Victor Hugo, 2nd plate

Alphonse Legros

Etching of an elderly man asleep in an armchair beside an open book, with a window and cross-hatched background.

Convalescent (Le convalescent)

Alphonse Legros

Soft grey print of a misty woodland with tall trees framing an open sky and a sloping path in the foreground.

Landscape: Morning Mist (Paysage: Brumes du matin)

Alphonse Legros

Self-Portrait, 10th plate

Alphonse Legros, 1905

Self-Portrait, 13th plate

Alphonse Legros, 1906