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National Gallery of Art

14,495 works

Red chalk drawing of a lady and gentleman with tall curled hairstyles on a street, with onlookers behind them.

A Lady and Gentleman with Exaggerated Headdresses

Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, 1778/1780

Ink and wash drawing of a vast vaulted prison interior with a grand staircase, arches, and an iron grille.

Roman Prison

Follower of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, second half 18th century

Pen and watercolor drawing of a villa courtyard seen through an arch, with a fountain, columns, cypresses and small figures.

Courtyard of the Villa Pliniana

Follower of Hubert Robert

Hand-colored architectural drawing with a garden ground plan, two building elevations, and a circular view of a pavilion entr

Project for the House and Gardens of Mlle. Guimard

Jean Testard and Charles-Philippe Campion de Tersan, c. 1768-1770

Engraved portrait of a man with long curly hair, white cravat and dark draped cloak, titled Steffan Wolters, 1684.

Steffan Wolters

Jan Verkolje I after Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1684

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a fur-trimmed robe and ruff collar, holding a book with a dog beside him.

Justus Lipsius

Hendrick Goltzius, 1587

Engraving of the Virgin Mary on a crescent moon holding the Christ Child, with angels, a star halo and Latin text below.

The Virgin and Child on the Crescent

Helias van den Bossche after Abraham Bloemaert, 1607

Pen and wash drawing of a friar in a robe gazing up at a crucifix in the clouds, with a church on a distant hill.

The Stigmatization of Saint Francis

Johann Matthias Kager, 1607

Pen and wash drawing of a bearded figure with a staff and draped cloak, seated at a table, in brown tones.

Janus

Attributed to Hans Steidlin, c. 1600

Red chalk and wash sketch of a seated nude woman with two elders beside her in a rocky landscape.

Susanna and the Elders

Johann Michael Rottmayr, c. 1700

Watercolor interior of a baroque church with frescoed vault, gilded balcony, candlelit altar and kneeling worshippers.

The Interior of the Jacobskirche at Innsbruck

Adolph Menzel, 1872

Brown wash drawing of a biblical sacrifice: divine light strikes an altar as angels hover above and soldiers lie fallen below

The Sacrifice of Elijah before King Ahab

Nicola Malinconico, 1680s

A Girl in Peasant Dress

Jean-François Clermont, c. 1750

Brown ink and wash drawing of soldiers working around a cross beneath a cloudy sky, by Albrecht Altdorfer.

Christ Nailed to the Cross

Albrecht Altdorfer, c. 1512

Engraving of an equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius on a tall pedestal with a Latin inscription beneath.

Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius

Monogrammist CB after Nicolaus Beatrizet, 1548

Engraving of an ancient marble tomb with Latin inscription, winged figures and a griffin relief on a weathered stone base.

Tomb of Nero

Unknown artist, 1551

Pen and wash drawing of a helmeted soldier in armor loading and firing a long caliver, with smoke rising from the barrel.

Elegantly Dressed Soldier Preparing to Fire His Caliver

Jacob de Gheyn II, c. 1597

Engraving of three nude goddesses, Venus, Juno and Minerva, on clouds with a cupid, a peacock and Minerva's helmet and shield

Venus, Juno and Minerva

Adriaen Collaert after Jan van der Straet, 1587

Elegantly Dressed Soldier Tamping His Caliver

Jacob de Gheyn II, c. 1597

Sepia oval print of two men and a woman in a book-lined room, with a dog and a framed hunting scene on the wall.

The Sportsmen Resting

Isaac Cruikshank

Sepia oval print of a sportsman with a gun and dogs, while a couple embraces in a doorway beside him.

The Sportsmen's Departure

Isaac Cruikshank

Grey wash drawing of a young woman hurrying past a pedestal with a Cupid statue in a garden with trees.

Sacrifice to Love

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, c. 1766

Pen and red chalk sheet of figure studies, including a seated draped man, a standing nude, and foreshortened figures.

Figures from the Farnese Palace and from Life

Gaspar van Wittel after Annibale Carracci, c. 1710

Sepia oval drawing of a vaulted Roman interior with columns, a relief frieze, and small figures near draped cloth below.

Interior of a Roman Villa

Abbé de Saint-Non after Hubert Robert Jean-Claude-Richard, 1765

Lithograph portrait of a bearded man with eyeglasses and tousled hair, shown in loose dark strokes on cream paper.

Arno Holz

Lovis Corinth, 1922

Lithograph of a cloaked man in a top hat shivering in falling snow on a city street, with a dog lying in the snow.

Oh Patrie!!!

Honoré Daumier, 1840

Daumier lithograph of a robed lawyer striding past a man in a top hat and a uniformed officer by a doorway.

Tiens v'la peut-etre une pratique

Honoré Daumier, 1847

Pen and wash drawing of allegorical figures, putti and a warrior floating among clouds in a celestial triumph scene.

The Triumph of Wisdom

Bartolomeo Tarsia, c. 1750

Brown ink and wash drawing of two monks standing and kneeling beside a prostrate man on the ground.

Two Monks with a Prostrate Man

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, c. 1725

Red chalk drawing of a robed older man bending over a kneeling nude youth on rocky ground.

The Sacrifice of Isaac

Workshop of Luca Signorelli, c. 1500