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National Gallery of Art

14,495 works

Sketch of a red-haired woman in a high bun cradling a sleeping baby against her shoulder, drawn in colored chalk on tan paper

Madame Helleu Cradling Paulette in Her Arms

Paul César Helleu, 1904/1905

White heightened drawing of a nude man with curly hair seated beside a staff, on blue paper.

A Young Man Sitting on a Stool Reading a Book (recto); The Fall of Man (a fragment of the lower part) (verso)

Unknown artist, c. 1450

Engraved print of four scenes: cavalry in disarray, fallen horses, a mounted officer leading soldiers, and an officer near te

Charakteristik Friedrichs II (Part III)

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1800

Sepia drawing of the Holy Family with God the Father and angels in clouds above, a bearded man holding a flowering staff.

The Holy Family with God the Father

Gaetano Gandolfi, 1770s-1780s

Pen and wash drawing of an old stone house with Gothic windows, an awning, and figures in period dress on the street.

An Old House in the Rue Saint Jean at Caen, Normandy

John Sell Cotman, 1817

Engraved landscape with a large tree, shepherds with sheep and goats, rocky bank, and distant hills and church tower.

Landscape with Shepherds

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of a young woman seen from behind, climbing a step with one arm raised, on gray paper.

Young Woman Climbing a Step

Unknown artist, 1890s

Charcoal sketch of a young woman in a long trailing dress and feathered hat, drawn on blue-grey paper.

Fashionable Young Woman Stepping Forward

Unknown artist, 1890s

Charcoal and chalk study of a woman's hands and a beribboned hat on toned paper.

Young Woman's Hands and Beribboned Hat

Unknown artist, 1890s

Charcoal and white chalk sketch of a standing woman in a long skirt, head bowed, hands clasped at her waist, on grey paper.

Standing Woman Leaning on Her Elbow

Unknown artist, 1890s

Sepia print of women and a child washing by a stream beside a thatched cottage and tall trees under clouds.

Les Laveuses (The Laundresses)

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, 1771

Honeysuckle

Frederick W. Freer, c. 1887

Color print of two riders on horseback in a rocky canyon below pink cliffs and a pale teal sky.

The Canyon Gateway, Arizona

Fred Grayson Sayre, 1923

Black-and-white woodcut of a man raising an axe beside a snowy pine tree in a winter forest.

Woodsman

Arnold Wiltz, 1936

Pen and grey wash drawing of a bishop saint with mitre, crosier, halo and a book with three gold spheres.

Saint Nicholas (verso)

Circle of Hans Heinrich Wägmann, 1600/1620

Engraved portrait of a man in a wig and striped robe leaning on a desk with a quill and sheet music.

J.-B. Rebel

Antoine Watteau Jean Moyreau, c. 1730

Etched portrait of a curly-haired man with a moustache and lace collar, turned to the right.

A Man with a Moustache and Goatee, Facing Right

Ottavio Mario Leoni, 1620s

Etched portrait of a curly-haired man with moustache and goatee, wearing a crosshatched lace collar, facing forward.

A Man with a Moustache and Goatee, Facing Forward

Ottavio Mario Leoni, 1620s

Blue-toned woodcut of a seated nude woman at a fountain pool with two older men leaning toward her in a garden.

Susanna and the Elders

after Jacques Stella Paul Maupin, c. 1625

Pencil portrait of a bearded man with tousled hair in a double-breasted coat, inscribed Gisbert Flüggen.

Gisbert Flüggen

Wilhelm Joseph Heine, 1830s

Pen drawing of four horsemen in clouds, one with a bow, one with scales, one with a sword, and a figure restraining a horse.

Vidi, quod aperuisset agnus... (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse)

copy after Luigi Sabatelli I, 1809/1810

Red chalk drawing of a seated female nude with one arm raised, on a tinted sheet with white highlights.

A Female Nude Seated on a Ledge

Charles-Louis-Lucien Müller, 1863/1866

Head of a Bearded Gentleman

Charles-Louis-Lucien Müller, early 1860s

A Bearded Gentleman with a Glass of Wine

Charles-Louis-Lucien Müller, early 1860s

Head and Hand of a Man Throwing Dice

Charles-Louis-Lucien Müller, early 1860s

Drawing of a curlew with a long curved bill hanging by its blue feet from a nail against an arched tan panel.

Trompe l'Oeil: A Curlew Hanging from a Nail

Édouard Traviès, 1850s(?)

Watercolor still life of a potted fuchsia and white flowers beside toys and blue cloth on a wooden table.

A Potted Fuchsia with Children's Toys

Henri Harpignies, 1877

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Virgin Mary on a crescent moon with angels and cherubs in clouds, dated 1711.

The Immaculate Conception

Melchior Steidl, 1711

Engraving of Narcissus leaning over water as Cupid aims from above, with a dog and two draped women nearby.

Narcissus

Aegidius Sadeler

Black and white etching of a city street with tall buildings in the distance and shadowed rooftops in the foreground.

Untitled - Earl Horter