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National Gallery of Art

14,495 works

Etching of an ornate terrace with a leaning woman, a sprawled man on steps, a stone urn, and birds in a dark sky.

In Flagranti

Max Klinger, 1883

Etching of a helmeted warrior walking beside a veiled older woman holding a leafy branch near a stone pillar.

Aeneas and the Sibyl

Gérard de Lairesse, c. 1670

Print from Drawing Book

Luca Ciamberlano, c. 1610/1620

Engraving of a bearded saint in a hooded habit, gazing upward with hands on his chest, haloed by radiating light lines.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Attributed to Luca Ciamberlano, c. 1610/1620

Book cover with a large pink and red stylized flower over a dense blue-green leafy vine pattern.

The Golden Legend: the Golden Legend of Master William Caxton done anew (volume 1)

William Morris, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, and Jacobus de Voragine, 1892

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of a youth with wavy hair turned three-quarter view on tan paper.

Portrait of a Youth

Vincenzo Gemito, 1923

Etching of an angel pointing from clouds toward a sleeping man in bed within an oval frame.

The Dream of Saint Joseph

after Pierre-Hubert Subleyras Anonymous, c. 1730?

Etching of the Annunciation: an angel with a lily and the Virgin at a prie-dieu beneath a descending dove in clouds.

The Annunciation

after Pierre-Hubert Subleyras Anonymous, c. 1730

Daumier lithograph of a seated painter at an easel watched by a top-hatted man and a bonnet-wearing woman with a cane.

Monsieur dessine un paysage

Honoré Daumier, 1846

Oval graphite drawing of a smiling seated boy with short dark hair, white collar and arms folded over his knee.

Seated Boy

Thomas Lawrence

Charcoal sketch of a Spanish dancer in a full skirt, one arm raised overhead, drawn on tan paper with pink accents.

A Spanish Dancer

Ricard Canals Llambí, c. 1900

Printed Latin text page with woodcut border showing a tree, a nude man and woman, and ornamental figures.

De Claris Mulieribus (Concerning Famous Women)

Master of Boccaccio, Giovanni Boccaccio, Johann Zainer, 1473

Watercolor of a Venetian canal seen through stone arcade arches, with a bell tower, stone bridge, gondolas and figures.

San Giorgio dei Greci, Seen from an Arcade

Samuel Prout, 1824/1829

Sepia print of a man in a fur hat and patterned jacket leaning on a ledge, holding a pencil, turned to the right.

Carle Van Loo

Gilles Demarteau, the Elder, after Carle Van Loo, c. 1760

Etching of a bacchanal with a reclining nude woman, sleeping figure, garlanded standing woman, and ruins in the distance.

Bacchanal

Giovanni David, 1775

Title page of a book reading ARABESQUES MYTHOLOGIQUES in black capital letters on aged cream paper.

Arabesques Mythologiques

Antoine Joseph Gaitte Comtesse Stéphanie Félicité de Genlis, 1810

Watercolor of a standing woman in embroidered jacket and white dress beside a patterned rug and cushioned bench.

A Moroccan Woman in Traditional Dress

Mariano Fortuny Marsal, 1866

Brown ink and wash drawing of winged angels in clouds, one playing a lute in the foreground.

Angels in Glory

Jan Müller, 1590

Watercolor of a sunlit Italian street with ornate palazzo balconies, a tower, shopfronts and pedestrians under blue sky.

Corso Sant' Anastasia with the Palazzo Maffei in Verona

William Callow, 1855

Sheet of tonal studies showing two standing figures in turbans and robes, a classical head, and two bearded faces.

Fragments choisis dans les Peintures et les tableaux les plus intéressants des palais et des églises de l'Italie (Fra…

Abbé de Saint-Non Jean-Claude-Richard, 1767-1775

Black ink handprint of a left hand on tan paper, with fingerprint ridges and palm lines visible, and a red seal below.

The Artist's Left Hand

Henri Charles Guérard, 1890s

Brown wash drawing of a narrow rocky gorge with a waterfall, hanging vines, and a distant hilltop tower.

Cliffs Overhanging a River Gorge near Sorrento (recto)

Johann Joachim Faber, 1823

Engraving of Moses holding the Ten Commandments tablets before a radiant divine figure, with priests and worshippers at an al

Biblia Ectypa (Pictorial Bible)

Johann Christoph Weigel, Elias Christoph Heiss, after Johann Jakob von Sandrart, 1695

Drawing of a tiered fountain with three nude nymphs reaching upward among sea creatures, in black and white chalk on tan pape

A Fountain with Three Nereids

Joseph François Parrocel, 1740s(?)

Charcoal sketch on brown paper of a man reaching among tree branches while pruning, seen from behind.

Man Pruning a Tree

Chalk drawing on tan paper of a fountain with three tritons on a rock base, one blowing a conch shell trumpet.

A Fountain with Three Tritons

Joseph François Parrocel, 1740s(?)

Sepia etching of a seated woman in classical drapery with a laurel wreath beside a coat of arms on a shield.

Figure fatte da cinque punti obbligati

Carlo Labruzzi, c. 1796

Etching of a standing armed man before a seated figure on steps beneath an arch, with onlookers around them.

Mucius Scaevola

Jean-Honoré Fragonard after Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1763/1764

Etching of a seated saint turned toward a haloed angel, with a small cherub and a dove in a dark hatched sky.

Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Jean-Honoré Fragonard after Mattia Preti, 1763/1764

Lithograph of a raven perched above a doorway with a woman in a dress, and a reclining figure on a bed in the lower right.

Le Corbeau (The Raven)

Edgar Allan Poe Edouard Manet, 1875