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National Gallery of Art

1,161 works

Brown wash drawing of elegant figures playing a game under trees in an outdoor fête, with a scrolled frame below.

Fête Champêtre with Game of Hot Cockles (La Main Chaude)

Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine, before 1774

Pencil drawing of two figures in plumed hats on a rocky shore, with clouds and birds above a dark sea.

Two Figures in a Landscape

Odilon Redon, 1865

Engraved allegory of tolerance with a seated woman, winged figures, cherubs and a crowd of diverse figures.

Das Bild der Düldung (Allegory of Tolerance)

Franz Anton Maulbertsch, 1785

Circular pen and ink drawing of a radiant robed figure above clouds, with two bearded figures and three kneeling men below.

The Transfiguration

Ercole Setti, c. 1570s/1580s

Circular engraving of two nude men pulling ropes around a large celestial globe, with clouds above and a Latin inscription be

Title Page

after Hendrick Goltzius Jan Muller, 1589

Circular engraving of a muscular male figure and a winged figure with a staff, beside a nude woman in shadow.

Dies I (First Day)

after Hendrick Goltzius Jan Muller, 1589

Circular engraving of a winged figure with a sword over a reclining old man and hourglass, with a nude woman on clouds at rig

Dies II (Second Day)

after Hendrick Goltzius Jan Muller, 1589

Circular engraving of a winged figure descending among clouds toward a reclining woman and a seated foliage-crowned man.

Dies III (Third Day)

after Hendrick Goltzius Jan Muller, 1589

Circular engraving of mythological figures: a nude youth with a bow and a nude woman holding a curved arc, clouds below.

Dies IV (Fourth Day)

after Hendrick Goltzius Jan Muller, 1589

Circular engraving of a reclining sea god surrounded by fish and crabs, with birds flying over a rocky shore and lions.

Dies V (Fifth Day)

after Hendrick Goltzius Jan Muller, 1589

Circular engraving of Adam sleeping as God presents the nude Eve, with animals and trees in a landscape at right.

Dies VI (Sixth Day)

after Hendrick Goltzius Jan Muller, 1589

Monochrome print of a young woman in a turban with curled hair, shown in bust length with drapery over her shoulders.

Bust of a Young Woman with a Turban

Giuseppe Longhi, 1808/1812

Engraving of a banquet with seated men at a long table and a kneeling woman at the feet of a central figure, in a columned ha

Christ at the Table of Simon the Pharisee

after Frans Floris I Anonymous, c. 1570

Watercolor of a colonnaded courtyard with a seated reader, a figure feeding pigeons in sunlight, and a tiled wall.

A Fakeer at the Door of a Mosque, Constantinople

John Frederick Lewis, 1863

Pencil sketch of two women in hats watching pheasants and birds behind a wire fence in a garden with trees.

Au Jardin d'Acclimatation (In the Zoological Garden)

Félix Bracquemond, 1870s

Engraved oval portrait of Jean Jouvenet holding a palette and brushes, gesturing, with an inscription plaque below.

Jean Jouvenet

Antoine Trouvain, 1707

Etching of a bearded bald man beside a severed head, with fine cross-hatched lines, by Paul Klee, 1904.

Perseus (Der Witz hat über das Leid gesiegt) [Perseus-The Triumph of Brain over Body]

Paul Klee, 1904

Etching of a poulterer in a cap gesturing to chickens at a thatched hut, with a woman seated beside a hen.

The Poulterer, Vendee (Le Poulailler, Vendee)

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1908

Etching of a woman in a head scarf looking out, set against a dark, heavily hatched background.

Une Apache

Theodore Roussel, 1909

Etching of a bearded prophet with outstretched arms before a crowd of upturned faces, dark crosshatched background, 1902.

Prophet (Le prophete)

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, 1902

Three women carry laundry through a city street, drawn in warm sepia tones with loose lines.

Return from the Wash House (Retour de lavoir)

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, 1912

Etching of a hunched, elongated nude figure reaching down from a rock beneath a radiant sun over a dark horizon.

The Monarchist

Paul Klee, 1904

Embroidery on linen with a central flowering vine, a blue bird, a parrot on a branch, and a brown horse below.

Embroidery

Isabella Ruth Doerfler, c. 1940

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a gray man's top hat with a light ribbon band tied in a bow, on cream paper.

Man's Hat

Henry De Wolfe, 1935/1942

Etching of a peasant couple beside a cow under trees, with a man leaning on a staff and sheep grazing in the distance.

Peasant Couple with Cow

Jacques Callot, c. 1621

Self-Portrait, Medallion, No.2, 11th plate

Alphonse Legros

Circular engraving of an old man in a cap embraced by a woman, with a standing woman holding a cup and a jug nearby.

Lot and His Daughters

Sebald Beham, c. 1526

Engraving of men beside a horse and a spiked barrel inside a circle, with leafy ornament in the corners.

The Death of Regulus

Sebald Beham, c. 1525/1528

Circular engraving of a seated couple, a bearded man in a feathered hat behind a woman with flowing hair, dated 1529.

A Couple of Lovers Seated

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1529

Pen and brown ink sketch of an old man in a cape with a cane beside a rustic figure gesturing, 1750s.

An Old Man with a Cape and a Rustic with a Backpack

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750s