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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Painting of ships tossed by a storm near rocky cliffs, with dark clouds and churning white waves.

Ships in a Gale

Velde, Willem van de, the Younger, 1660

Nude nymph on a conch shell drawn by dolphins, with tritons playing horns and pipes under a stormy sky.

The Triumph of Galatea

Bernardo Cavallino, c. 1650

Painting of a martyrdom scene with a kneeling saint in gold robes, armored guards, onlookers, and a dark stormy sky.

The Martyrdom of Saint Gennaro

Mattia Preti, c. 1685

Painting of a green valley framed by rocky cliffs and pines, with a stream and distant sea under a pale sky.

The Last Valley - Paradise Rocks

John La Farge, 1867-1868

Painting of an evening wooded landscape with travelers on a road, a donkey, cattle, rocky hills and distant mountains under a

An Italianate Evening Landscape

Jan Both, c. 1650

Painting of a cavalry battle on a hillside, with horsemen, a trumpeter, fallen soldiers, and smoke under a hazy sky.

Battle Scene

Philips Wouwerman, c. 1645/1646

Christ kneels to wash a disciple's foot in a golden basin, surrounded by robed disciples in a columned hall.

Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet

Garofalo, c. 1520/1525

Painting of figures chopping wood and gathering by a fire outside a thatched hut under a stormy winter sky.

Winter

Corrado Giaquinto, c. 1740/1750

Painting of a harvest bacchanal with figures picking grapes from a tree, pouring wine, and gathering fruit among putti.

Autumn

Corrado Giaquinto, c. 1740/1750

Medieval painting of the Crucifixion with Christ center, mourning women at left, a mounted knight at right, and angels on gol

Calvary

Master of the Death of Saint Nicholas of Münster, c. 1470/1480

Painting of a sunlit Venetian canal lined with palazzi, moored boats, and a distant arched bridge under a blue sky.

The Grand Canal

Richard Parkes Bonington, 1826/1827

Painter seated on a rocky cliff sketching, overlooking a hazy forested valley and distant bay under a pale sky.

The Artist Sketching at Mount Desert, Maine

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1864-1865

Painting of the ruined Parthenon with fallen marble blocks, a lone figure, and distant sea and mountains under a hazy sky.

Ruins of the Parthenon

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1880

Painting of a mounted rider chasing bison across a plain, with skulls and carcasses in the foreground and mountains beyond.

The Last of the Buffalo

Albert Bierstadt, 1888-1889

Painting of Roman ruins, a brick bell tower and rooftops under a cloudy sky, with a lone figure on a grassy path.

View of the Cloaca Maxima, Rome

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1814

Painting of a harvest field with haystacks, willow trees, grazing cattle, and a rain shower under clouds over a distant ridge

Harvest Scene in the Delaware Valley

George Inness, 1867

Calm river reflecting a wooded hill, with a fisherman on a sandy bank beneath trees in the right foreground.

Mount Tom

Thomas Charles Farrer, 1865

Marsh landscape with a haystack, winding creek, grazing cows, a gnarled tree, and clouds tinted pink under a green sky.

Sunlight and Shadow: The Newbury Marshes

Martin Johnson Heade, c. 1871/1875

Painting of women knitting and working outside a stone cottage, with two children seated on wooden steps in the foreground.

Sparrow Hall

Winslow Homer, c. 1881-1882

Still life of worn books and loose papers heaped in a wooden crate against a pale wall.

Take Your Choice

John Frederick Peto, 1885

Painting of a seated man on a rocky ridge overlooking hazy hills and a distant sea under a pale pink sky.

Mount Desert Island, Maine

Jervis McEntee, 1864

Boy playing violin on a forest path for seated children in straw hats, with a cabin and autumn trees behind.

His First Appearance in Public

Charles Caleb Ward, 1870

Painting of a moored boat on calm water beside a reddish rock outcrop and grassy headland under a pale sky.

Brace's Rock, Eastern Point, Gloucester

Fitz Henry Lane, c. 1864

Panoramic oil landscape of a valley with a lake, poplar trees, rolling hills, and a stone building with a bell tower in the f

Panoramic Landscape near the River Moselle

Théodore Rousseau, c. 1830

Painting of patchwork fields sloping toward a lake, with blue mountains and a clear sky beyond.

Swiss Landscape

Alexandre Calame, c. 1830

Painting of a grounded three-masted ship on a stormy shore at sunset, with waves breaking and debris on the sand.

The Stranded Ship

Asher Brown Durand, 1844

Still life of a white goose, hare and game birds before a classical garden with statues and a distant estate.

Still Life with Goose and Game before a Country Estate

Jan Weenix, c. 1685

Painting of a crowd under trees listening to a preacher with a staff and sheep, soldiers and a white horse nearby, landscape

Saint John the Baptist Preaching

Willem Reuter, c. 1665

Painting of three pears and a green apple resting on a white cloth against a warm brown background.

Three Pears and an Apple

David Johnson, 1857

Loose painting of a sunlit Cairo courtyard with a patterned stone floor, pale arches and a dark doorway.

Pavement, Cairo

John Singer Sargent, 1891