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National Gallery of Art

14,479 works

Pastel sketch of a narrow stone lane between walls, with shrubs and a rocky cliff rising behind under a pale sky.

Capri

Elihu Vedder, 1913

Drawing of a narrow rocky ravine with stone steps leading to an arched door and a tower with a cupola under a grey sky.

Vitré

Elihu Vedder, c. 1877

Mary Wood

John Russell, 1794

Grey wash drawing of the Holy Family in a carpenter's shop, a man sawing wood, a boy measuring, a woman seated, and an angel

The Holy Family in the Carpenter's Shop

Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen, c. 1755

Red chalk drawing of a standing male nude figure with head tilted, on warm buff paper.

Male Nude

Gian Antonio Guardi, 1750s

Red chalk drawing of a standing male nude with one arm raised overhead and head turned, on cream paper.

Male Nude

Gian Antonio Guardi, c. 1725

Tolozan de Montfort

Charles Ange Boily, 1786

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a dark coat and white collar, inscribed Anibal Caras Pictor at top.

Annibale Carracci

Unknown artist

Oval engraved portrait of a man with curly hair and cravat, inscribed Mengs below, by James Neagle.

Anton Raphael Mengs

Head of a Man

Domenico Campagnola

Pen and wash drawing of a decorative ceiling design with clouds and gods, grape foliage, classical columns and reclining figu

Illusionistic Ceiling with a Grape Arbor, Figures Poised on Galleries, and a Central Scene of Olympian Gods

Unknown artist, c. 1580/1590

Black and red chalk sketch of a woman with raised arm and loose studies of drapery and figure contours.

A Reclining Nude with Her Right Arm Raised over a Swift Composition Study [verso]

Jean-Baptiste Deshays, c. 1763

Engraving of the dead Christ supported by the Virgin with a winged angel, crown of thorns at lower left.

Pietà

Agostino Carracci after Veronese, 1582

Engraving of allegorical figures, cherubs and a fleur-de-lis shield framed in a central oval scene, dated 1690.

France Crowned with Victory by Louis XIV

François-Alexandre Verdier, 1690

Pen and ink drawing of a sailing ship and rowboats at a harbor with a statue, spired buildings and clouds.

Seascape

Rodolphe Bresdin

Drawing of a whimsical thatched farmhouse village with ducks and chickens by a pond under a cloudy sky.

Fantasy Farmhouse

Rodolphe Bresdin, 1853

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a fur-collared coat, set within an ornate architectural frame on a pedestal.

Paolo Caliari

Agostino Carracci

Engraving of the dead Christ supported by the Virgin Mary and an angel, with a crown of thorns on the ground.

Pietà

Agostino Carracci, 1582

Engraving of the crowned Virgin spreading her cloak over two kneeling bearded men in robes, with clouds and a halo behind her

The Madonna Protecting Two Members of a Confraternity

Agostino Carracci, 1582

Engraving of a bearded man with curly hair holding a comic theatre mask, with an inscription below.

Giovanni Gabrielli

Agostino Carracci, 1599

Engraving of the Holy Family: Mary seated with the sleeping Christ Child, and an elderly Joseph beside her.

The Holy Family

Agostino Carracci, 1597

Art Nouveau poster print with a flowing female figure, a bearded man, twisting branches, and cast list text in a decorative b

La Cloche engloutie

Paul Ranson, 1897

Embossed cream sheet showing a faint nude figure with raised arms above a horizontal line, by Alexandre Charpentier, 1889.

L'École des veufs; Au Temps de la ballade

Alexandre Charpentier, 1889

Embossed female figure in a dancing pose on tan paper, beside printed cast lists for Le Théâtre Libre programme.

La Dupe; Son petit coeur

Alexandre Charpentier, 1891

Theatre poster for Nell Horn showing a stylized nude female silhouette with outstretched arms against red and yellow.

Nell Horn

Alexandre Charpentier, 1891

Pen and ink drawing of kneeling and standing figures gazing upward at serpent-like forms and rays in the sky.

"Turn Your Body as You Worship" [fol. 37 verso]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Tonal landscape print of a pond with a low dam, a tall tree on the left, and wooded hills under a broken sky.

An Old Dam Near Montrose

James David Smillie, 1891

Pen and ink drawing of a crowned man extending his hand to a group of men reaching up toward him.

"Do Not Give Your Right Hand to All and Sundry" [fol. 13 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Colored drawing of a courtier between Covetousness, a crowned piper with money bags, and a hooded Dissimulation, with a wolf

A Courtier Standing Between Covetousness and Dissimulation [fol. 14 recto]

Unknown artist, 1512/1514

Pen and ink drawing with red wash of a young man among allegorical figures, a Latin scroll, and a crouching figure labeled Ma

"Do Not Walk outside the Public Highway" [fol. 35 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515