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National Gallery of Art

10,026 works

Three men in painted hide robes and feathered headdresses stand and sit on open grassland under a pale sky.

Three Blackfoot Men

George Catlin, 1855/1869

Oil painting of a woman in black walking a narrow Venetian street past two men in dark coats and shuttered houses.

Street in Venice

John Singer Sargent, 1882

Painting of a classical palace behind a brick wall and stone archway, with figures and dogs on a gravel path under cloudy sky

An Architectural Fantasy

Jan van der Heyden, 1670

Painting of an Arapaho chief, a warrior with a rifle, and a woman carrying an infant on a prairie, in an oval frame.

Arapaho Chief, His Wife, and a Warrior

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Madonna and Child flanked by two saints in a landscape with a hilltop castle, painted in 1492.

Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome and Saint John the Baptist

Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, 1492

Painting of a tree-lined Dutch canal with brick houses, moored barges, a small bridge, and a distant church spire.

View Down a Dutch Canal

Jan van der Heyden, 1670

Painting of two Arapaho warriors and a woman in fringed clothing, with spears and feathered headdresses, on a pale background

Two Arapaho Warriors and a Woman

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Group portrait of two women and two young boys on a balustraded terrace with roses and trees behind them.

The Marquise de Pezay, and the Marquise de Rougé with her sons Alexis and Adrien

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1787

Nude winged figure with golden halo beside a red cloth in a desert of jagged white rocks and a winding river.

Saint John in the Desert

Domenico Veneziano, 1445

Painting of a feathered warrior with his wife, daughter and small children standing on grassland in fringed buckskin clothing

Assinneboine Warrior and His Family

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Still life of wild strawberries in a blue and white bowl with a red carnation, scattered cherries and currants on a table.

Wild Strawberries and a Carnation in a Wan-Li Bowl

Jacob van Hulsdonck, 1620

Two side-by-side views of a man: left in feathered headdress and fringed robe, right in top hat and dark military-style coat

Assinneboine Chief before and after Civilization

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of two feathered warriors in fringed buckskin and a boy in a blanket standing on a grassy plain.

Two Nezperce Warriors and a Boy

George Catlin, 1855/1869

Painting of a hunter aiming a rifle at a running herd of antelope on a grassy hillside with trees and hills behind.

Antelope Shooting - Assinneboine

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Three figures in fringed buckskin and feathered headdresses stand on grass in an oval vignette, one holding a decorated pipe.

A Cheyenne Chief, His Wife, and a Medicine Man

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Triptych with Crucifixion in center, Virgin and Saint John below, penitent saint left, woman with vessel right, in gilded fra

Triptych

Pietro Perugino, 1482

Three Cheyenne warriors with feathered headdresses, weapons and shields stand on open prairie in an oval-framed painting.

Three Cheyenne Warriors

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Oval painting of Cheyenne tipis on open prairie, with women and children working on a hide in the foreground.

Cheyenne Village

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Watercolor of a Cheyenne warrior in feathered headdress standing beside his resting dark horse on grassland.

A Cheyenne Warrior Resting His Horse

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painted facsimile of a hide with tipis, mounted warriors and rows of marching figures in a narrative sequence.

Facsimile of a Cheyenne Robe

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of figures beside a decorated tipi and horses in a grassland, with rolling wooded hills behind.

The Cheyenne Brothers Starting on Their Fall Hunt

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of two mounted Native riders near an abandoned camp with a tipi frame, a white dog and a skull, under autumn hills.

The Cheyenne Brothers Returning from Their Fall Hunt

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of three figures and a child on a grassy plain with a white horse, wearing fringed hide clothing and beaded jewelry.

Four Kiowa Indians

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of two boxers clinching in a ring while a shouting crowd watches from the ropes in the dark.

Both Members of This Club

George Bellows, 1909

Painting of a white greyhound and a black spaniel beside a stone column in a wooded landscape.

Misse and Luttine

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1729

Painting of a woman and three men in feathered headdresses and beaded clothing standing on a grassy plain, some holding bows

Kiowa Chief, His Wife, and Two Warriors

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Panoramic landscape with rocks, trees, a mounted rider, hunters, a stag by a pool and a walled town in the distance.

Scenes from a Legend

Giovanni di Lorenzo Larciani, 1515

Painting of a soldier procession with chariots passing between towering Egyptian-style columns, watched by a crowd.

Pharaoh's Army Marching

Erastus Salisbury Field, c. 1865/1880

Figures gather wild grapes on a grassy prairie beside a grove of trees, with a distant treeline under a pale blue sky.

Kiowa Indians Gathering Wild Grapes

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painted church interior with tall columns, vaulted ceiling, and small figures on a checkered floor.

Interior of a Church

Pieter Neefs the Elder, 1625