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National Gallery of Art

14,495 works

Green title page of Eugène Bléry's etched study portfolio, with French printed title and handwritten lists of tree studies.

Etudes dessinées et gravées d'après nature

Eugène Bléry, 1840

Ink and wash study of a winged angel with a sword over falling demons, with two large wing studies above.

Studies for Saint Michael Defeating the Rebel Angels

Nicolò Ricciolini

Hand-colored print of a young woman with powdered hair holding a miniature portrait, framed in an oval with foliage and blue

The Marriage Presents

Louis-Marin Bonnet, 1770s

Oval print of a young woman with curled powdered hair in a white gown before blue drapery, within a gilded laurel frame.

Charms of the Morning

Louis-Marin Bonnet, 1777

Lithograph of a woman bending over a rocking cradle beside a sleeping cat and pitcher on a shelf, with sheet music text.

La Berceuse

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1895-1896

Engraving of a bearded saint with a halo reading an open book, leaning on a stone ledge in an arched niche.

Saint Simon

Lambert Suavius, 1545

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a feathered hat and lace ruff holding a baton, with armor and a city view behind him.

Frederik Hendrik, Prince of Nassau-Orange

Willem Jacobsz. Delff, 1618

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in lace ruff and armor, with Latin inscriptions, dated 1633.

William Louis, Count of Nassau-Beilstein

Willem Jacobsz. Delff, 1633

Engraved oval portrait of a woman with curly hair, lace collar and pearl necklace, with an inscription below.

Catherine, Countess of Pallandt

Willem Jacobsz. Delff

Etching of Venus seated beside Cupid, who whittles a bow beneath a large tree.

Venus with Cupid Whittling His Bow

Odoardo Fialetti, 1617

Brown wash drawing of the Holy Family resting in a wooded landscape with a grazing donkey and distant town.

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Carlo Antonio Tavella, 1720

Bust of Mlle. Marcelle Lender (Mlle. Marcelle Lender, en buste)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1895

Watercolor of a narrow stone-stepped street leading to a dark arched passage, with a tree and blue sky above.

A View in Subiaco

Pio Joris, 1873

Ink and wash drawing of a ruined ancient monument with seated figures and reliefs on a rocky hill, with a man standing at rig

Monument of Philopappos

Themistokles von Eckenbrecher, 1890

Etching of the Adoration of the Magi: kneeling king before the Virgin and Child, angels above, attendants and ruins behind.

The Adoration of the Magi

Giovanni David after Scarsellino

Ink and wash drawing of the Nike Temple on the Acropolis with an inset of two men in traditional Greek dress.

Nike Temple

Themistokles von Eckenbrecher, 1890

Ink and wash drawing of the octagonal Tower of Winds with relief friezes, a palm tree and iron railing, by Eckenbrecher, 1890

Tower of Winds

Themistokles von Eckenbrecher, 1890

Engraving of Attilius Regulus: a man beside a nail-studded barrel holding a head, with armored soldiers behind him in a fores

Attilius Regulus

Georg Pencz, 1535

Red chalk drawing of the Crucifixion with Christ at center, two thieves on crosses, and a crowd of mourners below.

The Crucifixion

Andrea Vicentino, c. 1575

Pen and wash drawing of a small circular columned monument on a stone platform, with buildings and a hill behind it.

Monument of Lysicrates

Themistokles von Eckenbrecher, 1890

Red chalk sketch on tan paper of a standing figure in draped clothing with twisted torso and raised arm.

A Young Woman Looking in a Mirror

Nicolas Lancret, 1742/1743

Ink and wash drawing of Hadrian's Arch in Athens with ruined columns and the Acropolis rising behind it.

Hadrian's Arch

Themistokles von Eckenbrecher, 1890

L'Ange anatomique (The Anatomical Angel) or Dissection of a Woman's Back

Jacques Fabien Gautier Dagoty, 1746

Hand-colored caricature of a restaurant scene: a cook with a carrot, a gesturing man in a striped shirt, and a top-hatted gen

Mr. de Robert Macaire Restaurateur

Honoré Daumier and Edouard Bouvenne, 1836

Hand-colored lithograph of two men at a stone wall, one losing his top hat in the wind, with hills and a railway below.

Inconvenient de quitter

Honoré Daumier and Edouard Bouvenne, 1846

Etching of a nude winged female figure with raised sword riding a winged horse above reclining figures and clouds.

Genius of the Arts

François Chifflart, 1865

Etching of a bare-backed seated man leaning on a ledge, with a reclining figure and another man among trees behind him.

Meditation

François Chifflart, 1865

Etching of Perseus on a winged horse beside a nude woman chained to a rock, with a fallen figure in the foreground.

Perseus and Andromeda

François Chifflart, 1865

Etching of Perseus in a winged helmet holding up Medusa's snake-haunted head, with his foot on her body on a rocky ledge.

Perseus

François Chifflart, 1865

Woodcut of Christ shown to a crowd of soldiers and onlookers before a building, with a sun in the sky.

Christ Shown to the People

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1513