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National Gallery of Art

14,495 works

Etching of the Holy Family: Mary, Joseph with a palm frond, and the infant Christ on a stone ledge beside a column.

The Holy Family

Laurent de La Hyre, 1639

The Ludovisi Menander

Augustin Pajou, 1752/1756

Grey wash drawing of a classically draped woman carrying a water jug on her shoulder, after an antique statue.

The Ludovisi Water Carrier

Augustin Pajou, 1752/1756

Pencil sketch of a kneeling woman in draped robes, head bowed, with the French caption 'fille de Niobé' below.

One of Niobe's Daughters

Augustin Pajou, 1752/1756

The Borghese Cybele

Augustin Pajou, 1752/1756

Lion's Head from the Capitoline Staircase

Augustin Pajou, 1752/1756

Pen and ink sketch of crumbling classical ruins and overgrown foliage along a riverbank.

Ancient Ruins on the Bank of the Tiber

Augustin Pajou, 1752/1756

Charcoal sketch of a horse with its head turned left, carrying a rider seen from behind.

Horse and Rider

Edgar Degas, c. 1878

Self-Portrait

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1928

Loose ink and crayon drawing of a seated nude figure in a bath, with bright yellow, orange, green and blue strokes.

Erna Bathing in a Tub

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1913/1914

Lithograph of a standing man in a top hat and frock coat holding a cane, with a tree and house behind him.

The Senior Government Auditor Rudolf Schadow (The Artist's Brother)

Johann Gottfried Schadow, 1824

Black and white woodcut of a cheering crowd behind a striped fence, with a man in a top hat at center and a racket at right.

Le Gagnant (The Winner)

Félix Vallotton, 1898

Pen and grey wash drawing of a classical feast with a nude woman, satyrs, putti and a fountain in an arched niche.

Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus Freezes

Johann Matthias Kager, 1590s

Brown wash drawing of the Flagellation of Christ with scourgers, demons, and angels above in an arched frame.

The Flagellation of Christ

Claudio Ridolfi, 1619

Pen and ink drawing of a vertical grotesque panel with an urn, acanthus scrolls, and a satyr figure at the base.

Grotesque with a Satyr

Unknown artist

Engraved print of the Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine, a bearded saint, and a child with a scroll before classical colu

Madonna and Child with Saint Catherine

Giovanni Gallo after Marco Pino

Woodcut of mourners grieving over a nude dead man in a landscape with trees and hills.

The Lamentation

Hans Baldung Grien, 1510

Etching of a road beside tall trees and a hillside, with small figures walking and a building in the distance.

Part of the Via Flaminia

Bartholomeus Breenbergh, 1639/40

Sheet of pen and ink studies showing a rearing horse, a male torso, several heads, and a draped standing figure.

Sheet of Studies

Unknown artist, late 16th century

Pen drawing of robed men beneath arches, one bending to offer a coin, with a figure looking from a window at right.

Peter Paying the Temple Tax

Gustav Heinrich Naecke, 1820/1821

Hand-colored print of a blue, red and yellow macaw perched on a wooden stand above grass.

Parrot (Ara)

Workshop of Johann Teyler, c. 1685-1697

Chiaroscuro woodcut of the Virgin Mary in prayer beside the haloed infant Christ, with an angel above.

Madonna and Child

Andrea Andreani after Francesco Vanni, 1591/93

Lithograph of a classical female figure holding a tablet labeled Égalité, a staff with a cap, and chains at her feet.

La République Française

Monogrammist G.H. after Pierre Paul Prud'hon, c. 1848

Lithograph of a woman in a costume with a full skirt and veil, leaning on an ornate pedestal and holding a fan.

Costume de Paquita dans la Reine d'Espagne

Eugène Lami, 1831

Lithograph of a mounted carabinier in a plumed helmet on a dark horse, with soldiers and trees in the background.

Carabinier

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet

Pencil portrait of a bearded standing man in a long coat holding a top hat, with a handwritten dedication at lower right.

M. Pochez

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, 1853

Lithograph of a whitewashed monastery with a dome set against towering cliffs, with robed travelers and animals on the path b

Mt. Sinai

Lithograph of the giant bearded Apennine statue at Pratolino beside a waterfall, with tiny figures among rocks and trees.

Colossus L'Apenin, Pratolino

Jean-Baptiste Isabey, 1822

Lithograph of a mother bending over a child, figures formed by soft white strokes against a dark gray ground.

Maternity

Eugène Carrière, 1896

Etching of a shirtless man with bowed head holding a cloth, standing against hatched shadows on a stone floor.

Un Pouilleux (Flea Seeker)

Mariano Fortuny Marsal