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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Painting of a two-masted schooner with white sails and an American flag passing a lighthouse, with a woman and child on the s

Schooner

Unknown artist, 19th century

Loose oil painting of gnarled olive tree roots and green undergrowth over sunlit dry earth and pale rocks.

Wild Olive Tree Roots, Valldemosa, Majorca

John Singer Sargent, 1908

Painting of a green arched footbridge over a pond filled with water lilies and surrounded by lush green plants.

The Japanese Footbridge

Claude Monet, 1899

Painter with easel and parasol sits on rocky ledge before a shadowed mountain slope and valley town at dusk.

View of Bozen with a Painter

Jules Coignet, 1837

Painting of a hilltop town above a calm lake at sunset, framed by a large tree on the left.

View of Lake Nemi

Jules Coignet, 1843

Painting of a shadowy forest with a painter at an easel, a dog, large rocks, and a small waterfall over a stream.

Forest Interior with a Painter, Civita Castellana

André Giroux, 1825/1830

Painting of a waterfall tumbling over rocks in a shadowy forest, framed by overhanging tree branches and green foliage.

Forest Interior with a Waterfall, Papigno

André Giroux, 1825/1830

Still life painting of a glowing mound of butter with a knife, a white cloth, and two eggs on a wooden table.

Mound of Butter

Antoine Vollon, 1875/1885

Reclining woman in red dress with lute player, a seated companion, and arched colonnade overlooking a blue sea.

The Favorite of the Emir

Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, c. 1879

Oil painting of a bearded man gesturing to seated travelers with a donkey, dog, and ruins under a dusky sky.

The Levite at Gibeah

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, early 1640s

Men on a wooden flatboat on a river, one dancing with arms raised while a fiddler plays, wooded shores behind.

The Jolly Flatboatmen

George Caleb Bingham, 1846

Still life painting of a wicker basket of grapes, plums and quinces on a porcelain dish, with cherries and fruit on a table.

Basket of Fruits

Balthasar van der Ast, c. 1622

Still life painting of a wicker basket of flowers with shells, grapes, cherries and currants on a table.

Basket of Flowers

Balthasar van der Ast, c. 1622

Still life of flowers spilling from a wicker basket beside a glass vase on a pale table, with a dark background.

Flowers in a Basket and a Vase

Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1615

Calm sea scene with several sailing vessels and rowboats near a small rocky islet under a hazy, glowing sky.

Becalmed off Halfway Rock

Fitz Henry Lane, 1860

Woman with a child looks toward sailboats on the sea beside an upturned boat and a seated figure on a sandy beach.

Dad's Coming!

Winslow Homer, 1873

Painting of a wounded woman reclining in red silk while a young hunter and a bearded man attend her in a landscape.

Silvio with the Wounded Dorinda

Louis Vallée, 165(1)?

Landscape painting of a hilltop fortress with cattle, goats, and figures resting in the foreground under a cloudy sky.

The Fortress of Königstein

Bernardo Bellotto, 1756-1758

Painting of a river with brown-sailed boats at right, a red-sailed boat at left, and buildings along the far bank under cloud

Battersea Reach

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1863

Painting of riders and pack animals on a trail by a river, with sunlit red and white cliffs under a glowing sky.

Green River Cliffs, Wyoming

Thomas Moran, 1881

Painting of a ruined ivy-covered stone tower on a cliff with a shepherd and sheep, overlooking a calm sea with a sailboat.

Italian Coast Scene with Ruined Tower

Thomas Cole, 1838

Man sketching on a hillside above a valley with grazing cattle, a wide river with sailboats, and distant hazy mountains.

View at West Point

Unknown artist, c. 1852/1858

Painting of several sailing ships with white sails on choppy harbor water, with a city skyline in the distance under a pink s

New York Harbor

Fitz Henry Lane, 1852

Painting of the Tiber Island in Rome with arched bridges, a bell tower and buildings reflected in calm river water.

The Island and Bridge of San Bartolomeo, Rome

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1825/1828

Painting of a white hound and a black curly-coated dog beside a stone column in a landscape with trees and sky.

Misse and Luttine

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1729

Painting of a dark blue grape cluster hanging from a vine branch against a muted golden background.

Grapes

Joseph Decker, c. 1890/1895

Oil still life of green plums spilling from a tipped wooden basket onto a dark table, with leaves and blue drapery behind.

Green Plums

Joseph Decker, c. 1885

Snowy farm scene with a yellow farmhouse, barn, cattle, and a man with a dog under a cloudy winter sky.

Winter in the Country

George Henry Durrie, c. 1858

Painting of a sandy road climbing a hillside past trees and a red-roofed house, with two small figures walking below.

Rue Terre Neuve, Meudon

Gwen John, probably late 1910s to early 1920s

Reddish-brown horse tethered by a rope to a wooden post on a sandy plain under a dramatic, cloudy sky.

A Horse Hitched to a Post

Eugène Delacroix, c. 1820