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National Gallery of Art

14,495 works

Brown wash drawing of Christ seated among robed scholars in a vaulted temple interior with arcades and balconies.

Christ among the Doctors

Bartolomeo Ramenghi, 1520s

Pen and grey wash drawing of a standing courtier in a wide hat, buttoned tunic, voluminous sleeves and a belt with pendants.

A Standing Courtier

Unknown artist, c. 1440

Watercolor of women in headscarves gleaning and gathering grass in a meadow, with trees, a fence and a distant town.

Gleaners in the Field

Louis Welden Hawkins, c. 1880

Title page of Clio with a seated woman in a laurel wreath inside a circular Art Nouveau frame, by Mucha.

Clio

Alphonse Marie Mucha and Anatole France, 1900

Woodcut of Pluto in a fiery chariot abducting Proserpina across a flaming landscape under dark clouds.

The Rape of Proserpina

Giuseppe Scolari, 1592/1607

Lithograph of winged Cupid with bow and quiver subduing a lion beside a rocky mountain landscape.

L’Amour terrassant un lion (Personification of Love Vanquishing a Lion)

Philippe Auguste Hennequin, 1825

Lithograph of a bearded man in a fur-trimmed coat, lace ruff and plumed hat, standing beside a upholstered chair.

Carnevale

Achille Devéria, 1830

Lithograph portrait of an elderly bearded man in a dark coat standing in a cluttered studio with instruments and a bust.

Frédéric Sauvage

Paul Gavarni, 1853

Cream title page with a gold-olive thistle-like plant, red lettering for Alexandre de Riquer's Crisantemes, and a Barcelona i

Crisantemes (Chrysanthemums)

Alexandre de Riquer, 1899

Engraving of an equestrian statue of Constantine the Great on a rearing horse in an arched niche with draped curtain.

Statue of Constantine

Francesco Faraone Aquila after Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1704-1742

Black and white lithograph of ivy vines arching over a misty woodland stream with tree trunks and grasses.

Plants and Ivies by a Stream

Eugène Bléry, 1848/1849

Art nouveau poster of a woman with poppies in her hair holding a plate of biscuits, with a 1897 calendar below.

Biscuits Lefèvre-Utile

Alphonse Mucha, 1896

Le Avventure di Saffo (The Adventures of Sappho)

Henry Tresham, 1784

Engraving of Saint Peter crucified upside down, with soldiers hoisting the cross and angels with a wreath in the clouds above

Martire de St. Pierre (The Martyrdom of Saint Peter)

after Pierre-Hubert Subleyras Jean Barbault, c. 1750s

Lithograph portrait of a seated man in dark jacket and waistcoat, labeled Victor Hugo, signed Devéria, 1829.

Victor Hugo

Achille Devéria, 1829

Etching of a ruined vaulted hall with columns and figures, opening on the right to a distant domed church.

A Ruined Vault with a Vista of Saint Peter’s

Victor Louis, late 18th century

Print of Saint Francis of Assisi leaning on a cross beside a skull, with hatched shading and a hooded robe.

Saint Francis of Assisi

after Alessandro Casolani Andrea Andreani, 1591

Charlotte, Lady Watkin Williams-Wynn

Daniel Gardner, c. 1775

Pen and ink sketch of a young woman asleep, head tilted in a wide hat and fur-collared coat, signed P. Vetri.

Young Woman Asleep

Paolo Vetri, 1870s

Watercolor of yellow narcissus flowers in an ornate blue and cream vase set within a brown arched niche.

Narcissus in a Blue and White Vase

Edward Poynter, 1864

Charcoal and wash study of a nude male figure with raised arms and bowed head, with ink wash sketches at right.

Study of the Figure and Head of Christ in "Christ on the Cross and Mary Magdalene"

Mosè Bianchi, c. 1879

Watercolor of a gondola on a Venetian canal beside ornate palace facades, with sailing boats and a blue sky.

A Gondola on the Grand Canal, Venice

William Callow, 1866

Etched portrait of a bearded man in a tall white turban and fur-trimmed robe, with an inscription below naming him Mahomet, a

Mahomet, a Turkish Merchant

Thomas Worlidge, c. 1741

Beatrice

John Hamilton Mortimer, 1775/1776

Grey paper drawing in chalk of a bearded God the Father above draped angels on clouds.

The Immaculate Conception with God the Father and Angels

Francesco Mancini, 1739

Black and white chalk drawing of a robed bishop saint with upturned face and outstretched arm on gray paper.

Bishop Saint in Supplication

Pietro Bernardi, 1610s

Red chalk drawing of the Virgin and Child in clouds with a kneeling monk looking up and cherubs in the corner.

The Vision of Simon Stock

Pietro Antonio de' Pietri, c. 1680/1700

Drawing with a black chalk study of a reaching male figure above two red chalk studies of upturned heads on tan paper.

Man Reaching Down and Two Studies of Heads (recto)

Jean Jouvenet, before 1698

Watercolor of a narrow village lane with a stone wall, wooden balcony, leafy trees, and a woman carrying wood.

A Village Street in Northern Italy

Eugenio Gignous, 1874

Watercolor sketch of a seated young woman in peasant dress resting her head on her hand, dated 1871.

A Seated Peasant Girl in Contemplation

Eleuterio Pagliano, 1871