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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Painting of emigrants waiting in a crowded depot, with a mother nursing a baby and a girl beside luggage trunks.

In the Land of Promise, Castle Garden

Charles Frederick Ulrich, 1884

Seated man in a gray work jacket and hat smoking a pipe, leaning against a brick wall, painted in warm browns.

A Longshoreman

John George Brown, n.d.

Panoramic view of a river valley with a town, military tents, cannon, and soldiers on a rocky ledge under a blue sky.

Maryland Heights: Siege of Harpers Ferry

William MacLeod, 1863

Corot landscape of women dancing beneath a large leaning tree beside a lake, with a hilltop building in the distance.

Dance under the Trees at the Edge of the Lake

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1865/1870

Painting of cows drinking at a pond under a cloudy sky, with trees and a distant village spire in a flat meadow landscape.

Sunlight

Théodore Rousseau, c. 1848/1850

Painting of green rolling hills, a grazing cow, stone wall and fence posts under a cloudy blue sky.

Obweebetuck

J. Alden Weir, c. 1908

Painting of a large yellow-green tree on a wooded hillside with a small white house and a pale path below.

Landscape

Morton Livingston Schamberg, c. 1912

Painting of a yellow carriage and horses crossing a river ford, with a boat and wooded hills in the background.

Mishap at the Ford

Alvan Fisher, 1818

Painting of a crowd of men in hats leaning over a wooden railing under a beamed ceiling, with a rules notice on the wall.

Nearing the Issue at the Cockpit

Horace Bonham, 1879

Painting of a shipwreck on a stormy sea with two men on the shore and dancing women in red drapes beside wooded hills.

Telemachus and Calypso

Benjamin West, c. 1809

Painting of a village dirt road with stone houses, a wooden fence, two women and a man walking under a pale sky.

Marly-le-Roi

Alfred Sisley, c. 1875

Four figures rest on a wooden quay with a cart and logs, while masted sailing ships fill the harbor behind them.

Negro Boys on the Quayside

David Norslup, c. 1865

Loose painting of Breton women in white bonnets seated on grass, with standing men and a church spire in the hazy background.

Study for "Breton Women at a Pardon"

Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret, c. 1887

Painting of women picking cotton in a green field with white bolls, a farmhouse and trees in the distance under a pale sky.

Picking Cotton

William Gilbert Gaul, c. 1890

Dusk landscape with cattle wading in a river, a horseback rider on a path, and a distant castle under a pink sky.

A Landscape after Sunset

Washington Allston, c. 1819

Painting of a village with a thatched cottage, haystacks, leafy trees and a grassy meadow under a cloudy sky.

Landscape

Jean-Charles Cazin, after 1876

Night landscape with a glowing moon over a calm lake, framed by dark silhouetted trees on the left.

Moonlight

Ralph Albert Blakelock, 1886/1895

Painting of a wooded mountain above a river, with a small cottage in a sunlit meadow under warm, glowing clouds.

Tourn Mountain, Head Quarters of Washington, Rockland Co., New York

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1851

Painting of elegant figures in period costume gathered in a shadowy garden beside a statue, rendered in loose brown and gold

Return from the Hunt

Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, 1860/1861

Painting of rolling hills, patchwork fields and blue mountains under billowing clouds, with trees in the foreground.

The Umbrian Mountains

Arthur Bowen Davies, 1925

Decorative painting of a kneeling figure in blue before gold-robed bishops, with trumpeters, banners and a crowd in a church.

The Crowning at Rheims of the Dauphin (Joan of Arc series: V)

Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel, 1907

Painting of a dirt road through green fields under a stormy sky, with a horse and cart and a distant village with trees.

Landscape, Distant Village

Charles-François Daubigny, c. 1870/1875

Painting of sailing ships on choppy harbor water near a walled fort, with an American flag and seagulls under a pale sky.

Boston Harbor

Robert Salmon, 1843

Painting of a river curving through a wooded valley, with a tall evergreen and grazing cattle on a grassy bank at left.

View on the Genesee near Mount Morris

John Frederick Kensett, 1857

Painting of a windmill with a rainbow over a field of haystacks and a red-roofed house under a grey sky.

The Great Windmill and the Rainbow

Jean-Charles Cazin, 1888

Painting of a crowded Brittany village fair with villagers in white headdresses and red caps among cows, with a church spire

Fair in Brittany

Eugène-Louis Boudin, 1874

Painting of a seated girl in a white dress beside a parrot, a cat, a goldfish bowl and a birdcage in a dim room.

The Pets

Eastman Johnson, 1856

Stormy sea with steamships and a sailing boat beside a wooden pier, figures walking under a dramatic cloudy sky.

Marine

Eugène Isabey, c. 1830

Still life of a silver cake basket with cakes and cookies, a bottle labeled Old Cherry, two glasses, and a landscape view.

Still Life with Silver Cake Basket

John F. Francis, 1866

Painting of a woman herding sheep down a path past trees, with cows grazing, white cliffs and sea under stormy clouds.

Hillside at Étretat

George Inness, 1876