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National Gallery of Art

14,495 works

Engraved portrait of a seated bearded man in a skullcap and white collar, holding a hat, with a column behind him.

Ephraim Bonus

Pencil and watercolor drawing of spruce trees and mossy boulders beside a rocky stream, with distant hills.

A Clump of Trees by a Rocky Stream in the Ramsau

Carl Morgenstern, 1832/1833

Etched sheet with four vignettes: a pier with lamppost and figures, a dark shape over water, a hatted figure, and a sketch.

Margins for Landing in England

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1879

Title page of Première Suite de dix eaux-fortes by François Bonvin, printed in Paris and London, 1861 to 1871.

Première Suite de dix eaux-fortes

François Bonvin, 1861-1871

Watercolor of monks buying fish at a Gothic Madonna portal beside a Venetian canal, with a gondola and fishermen.

Monks Buying Fish before the Portal of the Madonna della Misericordia

Ludwig Passini, 1855

Head of a Young Woman Facing Left

Gilles Demarteau, the Elder, after François Boucher, c. 1774

Manuscript page numbered 12 with a small pen sketch of two figures above French handwritten text.

Omnibus de Corinthe (No. 2, 15 January 1897)

Henri-Gustave Jossot, Louis Valtat, and others, 1897

Watercolor of a crumbling Gothic portal with a Madonna relief, opening onto a garden above a canal, 1844.

The Portal of the Madonna della Misericordia from the Canal

Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner, 1844

Engraving of the Holy Family: a seated Virgin, an elderly Joseph, and two nude infants in a rocky setting.

The Holy Family

Pierre Brebiette after Andrea del Sarto, c. 1617-1642

Watercolor of a pink rose branch with open blooms, a bud, and green leaves on a brown background.

Pink Roses

Fidelia Bridges, 1875

Etched half-length portrait of a man with a lace collar holding a folded letter, with a window at upper left.

Willem van der Borcht

Michiel Sweerts, 1650s

Muted watercolor of a night street with glowing windows and a lone figure in a dark coat walking across the foreground.

Street at Night, Meudon

Gwen John, 1910s

Sketch in brown wash and graphite of a seated cat with white chest and muzzle, turned to the right, on tan paper.

Cat with a White Front

Gwen John, 1910/1915

Loose watercolor of a seated woman in a dark high-collared cloak, face turned away, against a tan wash background.

Seated Girl in a High Collared Cloak

Gwen John, 1910s

Watercolor and pencil drawing of a room corner with a window, white curtain, folded cloth, and a paneled wall in ochre tones.

A Corner of the Artist's Room, Rue Terre Neuve, Meudon

Gwen John, 1915/1919

Black ink drawing of a winged figure over swirling forms, with German text reading Helft dem Krüppel at top left.

Helft dem Krüppel (Help the Cripples)

Heinrich Hoerle, 1920

Ink line drawing of a bald bearded man in a suit embracing a woman in a tall hat with lace cuffs, eyes closed.

Das Ehepaar (The Married Couple)

Heinrich Hoerle, 1920

Ink drawing of a bald, wide-eyed man in a buttoned coat crouching beside a bowl and a loaf of bread.

Der Ernährer (The Bread Winner)

Heinrich Hoerle, 1920

Pen drawing of a gaunt, bald man in a buttoned uniform with an iron cross, holding a cap, with a grim expression.

Der Erwerbslose (The Unemployed Man)

Heinrich Hoerle, 1920

Ink drawing of a stern bald man with a mustache holding a crying infant against his shoulder on tan paper.

Der Vater (The Father)

Heinrich Hoerle, 1920

Pen drawing of hunched figures in a narrow street beside a building with windows showing figures, on tan paper.

Der Immerwährendeschmerz (Perpetual Pain)

Heinrich Hoerle, 1920

Ink drawing of a sleeping figure on a scrolled couch, with a leg turning into a tall plant with long leaves.

Der Männ mit dem Holzbein Träumt (The Man with the Wooden Leg Dreams)

Heinrich Hoerle, 1920

Ink drawing of a woman reaching toward a tall plant beside a sleeping figure in swirling dark lines on tan paper.

Freundlicher Träum (Friendly Dreams)

Heinrich Hoerle, 1920

Ink drawing of a nude, distorted man facing a shadowed grid cube, with a hand and twisting serpentine forms on tan paper.

Hällucinationen (Hallucinations)

Heinrich Hoerle, 1920

Ink drawing of a twisted bare tree, a seated figure on a mound, and a crouching creature on tan paper.

Der Baum der Sehnsucht (The Tree of Longing)

Heinrich Hoerle, 1920

Black ink drawing on tan paper of a swirling serpentine creature with a bird head beside a small hunched figure.

Am Wegende (End of the Road)

Heinrich Hoerle, 1920

Grey textured portfolio cover with a printed label reading Das Mappenwerk der Insel and a ship emblem, 1899-1900.

Das Mappenwerk der Insel

Various Artists, published 1900

Profile of a Man with Sidewhiskers

Unknown artist, c. 1850

Pen and watercolor drawing of a crowned seated king under a tent with attendants, a stream and trees in the landscape.

The Coronation of Solomon by the Spring of Gihon

Jean Poyet, c. 1500

Samuel Palmer drawing of a ruined castle on a hilltop at dusk, with birds in an orange sky and dark trees below.

The Enchanted Castle at Dusk

Samuel Palmer, c. 1868