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National Gallery of Art

1,542 works

Two goldfinches with a moss nest among white apple blossoms, one bird carrying nesting material, in a soft pale landscape.

Gold Finches and Their Nest in an Apple Tree

Harry Bright, 1878

Etching of three horses in a grassy field beside a tree, with a fence and distant building on the right.

Three Horses in a Field

Pieter van Laer, 1636

Pale watercolor study of a birch tree beside a curving path, with feathery trees fading into mist on the right.

Tree Study

John Ruskin, mid-1850s

Watercolor of a river landscape with a ruined castle on a hill, a rocky cliff, and figures in a boat.

River Landscape with a Castle

Robert Adam, 1780s

Pen and brown ink drawing of Death with a scythe approaching a kneeling woodman beneath a large tree, with ruins in the dista

Death and the Woodman in a Coastal Landscape with Ruins

Ercole Bazicaluva

Pen-and-ink landscape with a castle on a cliff, a river, a walled city, and bare trees framing the view.

Landscape with High Cliffs, River, and City

Augustin Hirschvogel, 1546

Sepia print of a wind-blown tree by a river, with a standing man, a rowboat, and a rocky mountain in the background.

Italianate Landscape

Paul Sandby, 1762/ c. 1774

Watercolor of a seated figure overlooking a wooded valley, river, and distant ruins under a sunset sky with crescent moon.

An Arcadian Landscape

Jr George Barret

Grey wash drawing of a snow-capped mountain behind hills and trees, with a rider on horseback at lower right.

Mount Cairo from across the Melfa River

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, c. 1765/1766

Pen and brown ink sketch of figures gathered under bare trees beside a stone bench, with a seated woman and a child.

The Madonna and Child with Saints in a Landscape (Sacra Conversazione)

Vittore Carpaccio, 1500/1510

Engraved landscape with putti playing among willow trees, a rocky stream, arches and ruins in the distance.

Putti Playing in a Fanciful Landscape

after Jean Cousin the Younger Anonymous

Brown ink drawing of a man with a whip facing a rearing horse on open ground beside a tree.

Landscape with the Taming of a Horse

Guercino, 1620/1630

Pencil and watercolor studies of trees with autumn-colored foliage in yellow, orange and green on a pale sheet.

Studies of Trees

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1886

Red chalk drawing of tall cypress trees in an Italian park with small figures, a statue, and a stone balustrade.

A Stand of Cypresses in an Italian Park

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1760

Pen and ink landscape drawing with a hilltop castle, rocky cliffs, large trees, small figures, and clouds.

Landscape with the Baptism of Christ

Attributed to Pieter Cornelisz Kunst, c. 1530

Brown ink drawing of townspeople skating and playing on a frozen canal beside gabled houses and a castle tower in winter.

Winter Landscape with Skaters

Hans Bol, c. 1584/1586

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a rolling landscape with trees, a winding path, a ruined tower and distant hills.

Roman Landscape

Elihu Vedder, c. 1900

Etching of a horse, buffalo, sheep and goat resting among rocks and a tree in an open hilly landscape.

A Horse, Buffalo, Sheep, and Goat in an Italian Landscape

Johann Elias Ridinger after Johann Heinrich Roos

Sepia drawing of a hilltop castle above a river, with a wooden bridge, a water mill, and figures on a path.

Rauenstein Castle Seen from the River's Edge

Adrian Zingg, c. 1800

Black chalk drawing of a wooded hillside with a man walking a path accompanied by a dog.

Landscape with a Man and a Dog

Leandro Bassano after Titian, c. 1580

Pencil drawing of travelers on a winding road through a wooded landscape with large trees and birds in the sky.

Travelers on a Road in a Wooded Landscape

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Chatelain

Pencil sketch of a landscape with clustered trees, a seated figure on a bank at right, and hatched sky.

Landscape I

Théodore Rousseau

Pencil landscape sketch of trees and a field, with a large tree trunk on the right edge, on tan paper.

Landscape II

Théodore Rousseau

Ink drawing of a rural landscape with a thatched cottage, bare trees and a grassy field on tan paper.

Landscape at Pont-Aven

Paul Gauguin, c. 1888

Landscape with a Cottage; Profile of Boy, Profile of Man, Two Women in a Landscape, and Five Other Studies [verso]

Paul Gauguin, 1884-1888

Pencil sketches on two sheets: a tree and landscape with a man's head, and a face inside a hatched square.

Landscape and Head of Man; Head of Monkey Inside a Square [recto]

Paul Gauguin, 1884-1888

Pencil and colored crayon sketch of two women in white headdresses and blue dresses, with a graphite study on the right.

Two Breton Women; Landscape [recto]

Paul Gauguin, 1884-1888

Pen and brown ink sketch of farm buildings and dense trees beside a pond, with a path and small figure in the foreground.

A Landscape with Farm Buildings among Trees

Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1650/1655

Book cover with red line drawing of a sailing boat, reeds, water lilies and a village on a Norfolk Broads waterway.

Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads

Peter Henry Emerson and T.F. Goodall, 1886

Pencil sketch of thatched cottages and willow trees on a riverbank, with a sailboat on calm water to the right.

Cottages by a River

Jan van Goyen, c. 1627/1629