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National Gallery of Art

1,542 works

Red chalk drawing of a walled town with a tower and cypress trees beside a winding path under a cloudy sky.

An Italian Walled Town Seen through Trees

François Lemoyne, c. 1724

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate ceiling design with putti, scrollwork, and small landscape and battle scenes in the corners

A Ceiling Decoration with Landscapes and Battles

Lazzaro Tavarone, c. 1620

Brown wash drawing of an arcadian valley with a river, a domed mausoleum on a bluff, shepherds, sheep and mountains.

Arcadian Landscape with a Mausoleum

Christoph Heinrich Kniep, 1790s

Brown wash drawing of a ruined stone tower on a rocky hill with trees and wooded hills receding into a hazy sky.

Ruins of a Fortified Tower among Wooded Hills

Friedrich Salathé, 1816/1821

Sepia drawing of an Arcadian landscape with a Doric temple, waterfall, lake, large tree and small figures.

Arcadian Landscape with a Doric Temple

Christoph Heinrich Kniep, 1790s

Etched landscape of a watermill and buildings on rocky hillside, with trees and a distant town beside a river.

Landscape with a Mill

Dominique Barrière after Titian, c. 1650

Graphite and white chalk landscape drawing on tan paper showing shrubs, a winding stream, trees at right, and distant hills.

Landscape near Vourlis

Antoine Jean Duclaux, c. 1830

Red chalk drawing of a bearded nude river god seated on rocks, leaning on a large urn with one arm outstretched.

River God

Paul Troger, c. 1720

Pencil sketch of a fortified castle on a hill above a wooded valley flanked by rocky cliffs and a stone bridge.

Fortified Castle Above a Narrow Valley

Friedrich Salathé

Mezzotint portrait of a standing man with a club, sword, tomahawk and turtle before a forest backdrop.

Etow Oh Koam, King of the River Nation

John Simon after John Verelst, after 1710

Charcoal and chalk sketch of two riders on horses along a path through trees, with a dog and distant spire.

Rider in the Countryside

Unknown artist

Brown wash landscape of a ruined tower beside a river, two figures on the bank, a tree at right and birds in the sky.

Landscape

Watercolor landscape of a crumbling stone ruin beside a leaning pine tree, rocks and shrubs in the foreground.

Landscape with Ruin

Vítězslav Karel Mašek, 1900-1902

Loose colored crayon sketch of two standing nude women among angular green and teal forest strokes.

Two Nudes in a Forest

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1925

Pastel drawing of chestnut trees with yellow-green foliage on a hillside above a river and distant hills.

Chestnut Trees above a River

Louis Auguste Lepère, c.1900

Pencil sketch of a gnarled ancient tree with a split trunk and small figures in a landscape at its base.

An Ancient Tree with Figures in a Landscape

Friedrich Salathé, c. 1835

Watercolor of a green alpine valley with jagged mountain peaks, a distant village, and a sunlit farmhouse among trees.

An Alpine Valley

Rodolphe Leon Berthoud, 1878

Arcadian landscape with an obelisk on a hill, shepherds at a fountain, grazing sheep and a goat, and a stream in woodland.

Arcadian Landscape with an Obelisk

Salomon Gessner, 1785

Watercolor landscape of travelers with a donkey on a rocky road, a stone tower at right, and mountains under a soft sky.

View from Tivoli across the Tiber Valley at Sunset

Franz Kaisermann, 1813

Pencil and wash sketch of a ruined tower among wooded hills under a cloudy sky, with a bare tree in the foreground.

Ruins of a Fortified Tower among Wooded Hills [recto]

Friedrich Salathé, 1816/1821

Etching of a rocky valley with fields, a distant village, and mountains under a sky with clouds.

The Enclosed Valley

Hercules Seghers

Watercolor study of arching fountaingrass clumps in a meadow corner with trees and shrubs behind.

A Corner of a Meadow with Fountaingrass

Themistokles von Eckenbrecher, 1870

Pencil sketch of a bay with islands and pine trees in the foreground, seen from a hill in Maine, 1850.

Castine from Wasson's Hill, Brooksville, Maine

Fitz Henry Lane, 1850

Engraved landscape with gnarled trees, a rocky arch, a horse-drawn cart with two figures, and a moon over distant hills.

Rocky Landscape

Schelte Adams Bolswert after Sir Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1638

Black and white woodcut of a wooden house among trees and flowers, with radiating sunlight lines across the sky.

Mountain House

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1917

Pen and brown ink drawing of a woodland copse with tall trees, exposed roots and rocks in grass, signed and dated 1863.

A Copse of Trees

Karl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1863

Pencil drawing of a house with an arched door, tall trees, a lattice fence and a garden fountain in the foreground.

House and Trees across a Garden Wall

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1744

Pencil drawing of a balustraded terrace by a river, with a villa and tall trees behind it.

Terrace by a River with a Villa and Trees Beyond

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1744

Watercolor drawing of a brown field mouse seen from above, limbs spread and tail curled, on pale paper.

A Field Mouse, from Above

Johann Rudolph Schellenberg, c. 1775

Pencil sketch of a shady pergola and stone archway in a valley, with a hillside village in the distance.

A Shady Arbor in the Valley of Gragnano

Johann Adam Klein, 1820