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National Gallery of Art

14,495 works

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded man in a robe speaking with a woman leaning over a round stone well under a swirling sky.

Rebecca at the Well

after Luca Cambiaso Anonymous, 17th century

Pen and brown wash drawing of a crowned ruler on a throne with women and courtiers approaching in an arched hall.

Esther before Ahasuerus

Giovanni Guerra, late 16th century

Charcoal drawing of a woman washing at a woodland stream beside a fence and cottage, framed by tall trees.

Landscape with a Washerwoman

Adolph Menzel, c. 1890

Engraved landscape with twisted trees, rocks, a figure by water, and a distant village and mountains under clouds.

Narcissus

Etienne Dupérac, late 16th century

Engraved sheet with six small allegorical scenes and a central head, with handwritten attribution notes in blue ink below.

The Obsequies of Agostino Carracci: Third Plate

Guido Reni, after Giulio Cesare Parigino, after Lorenzo Garbieri, Giovanni Luigi Valesio, Aurelio Bonelli, Lodovico Carracci, and Lorenzo Garbieri, 1603

Etching of a winged guardian angel pointing upward while leading a small child across a rocky landscape.

Guardian Angel

Simone Cantarini, 1640s

Etching of the Circumcision of Christ: Mary holds the infant on a table as a priest works, with putti and a caged dove below.

The Circumcision of Christ

Bartolomeo Biscaino, 1650/1657

Etching of the dead Christ supported by two angels in an oval frame, with a crown of thorns on the ground.

The Body of Christ

Giuseppe Diamantini, late 17th century

Etching of Saint Jerome seated beside a tree with a cross and lion, while three putti play near the lion.

Saint Jerome

Pietro Testa, 1631/1637

Etching of draped figures gathered before a stone tomb inscribed Temporalis Aeternitas, with classical sculpture and ruins ar

Temporalis Aeternitas

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1645

Etching of a woman and boy beside a kneeling man at a stone base, with ruins, carved reliefs and foliage behind.

Theseus Finding Aegeus' Arms

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, c. 1645

Etching of veiled women and a robed priest performing a sacrifice at an altar in a colonnaded temple interior.

Antique Sacrifice

Bernhard Rode, 1752

Plate of the moon's southeast lunar surface with craters near Tycho, shown as a framed photograph beside a stippled drawing o

Our Satellite. A Selenography According to The Present State of Science

Dr. A. Le Vengeur d'Orsan, 1862

Engraved landscape with a long-haired penitent figure beside a wooden cross, rocky cave, stream and dense trees.

Landscape with a Penitent Magdalene

after Girolamo Muziano Cornelis Cort, 1573

Loose pencil sketch of a head with swirling hair and handwritten name inscriptions along the left edge.

Frank Burty Haviland

Amedeo Modigliani, 1915

Engraving of a seated Madonna lifting a veil over a reclining infant, with a bearded man holding a staff behind her.

The Madonna of the Veil

after Raphael Anonymous, 1570s?

Drawing of the Madonna holding the Christ Child seated before a stone ledge with a flower vase and a bird.

The Madonna and Child Seated before a Ledge

Thierry Bellange, c. 1630

Standing Musician

Circle of Mariano Fortuny Marsal, 1870

Portrait of a Man

Washington Allston, c. 1810

Watercolor of a dead yellow-breasted bird on the ground among dry stems, with a hazy autumn landscape behind it.

Dead Yellow-breasted Bird in Autumn Landscape

Fidelia Bridges, 1870s

Watercolor of pink and white flowers and green leaves in a decorated pale pitcher on a tabletop.

Flowers in a Pitcher

Fidelia Bridges, 1870s

Watercolor sketch of a building facade beside a brown inkwell with quill pen and a red seal on paper.

Untitled - Russell Smith and Mary Wilson Smith, 1851

Russell Smith and Mary Wilson Smith, c. 1851

Ink and wash drawing of a bearded man in a turban and loose robes, one arm extended to the right.

Man in Oriental Costume

Robert Walter Weir, 19th century

Pencil and colored chalk sketch of several Nile feluccas with lateen sails on calm water, with distant cliffs.

Nile Journey, Feluccas (recto)

Elihu Vedder, 1890

Ink sketch of a seaside promenade with pedestrians, dark trees, and ship masts rising at the harbor.

Concarneau Terrace / Brittany Street Scene

Robert Henri, c. 1899

Watercolor portrait of a young woman in cream classical drapery, gold headband, with olive sprig and carved frieze behind her

Myrrhine

Edith Martineau, 1873

Pen and ink drawing of a seated bare-chested man in a helmet, leaning on a ledge with legs extended.

Study of a Seated Man Wearing a Helmet

George Richmond, 1824/1830

Sepia print of Diana leaning over sleeping Endymion under a tree, with two cherubs above and two dogs in the foreground.

Diana and Endymion

François-Philippe Charpentier, after Nicolas Le Sueur, after Sebastiano Conca, 1763

Brown-toned print of a peasant woman in a headscarf leaning on a stone ledge beside a basket, looking downward.

Italian Peasant Woman

after Jean-Baptiste Greuze François-Philippe Charpentier, 1762/1766

Brown ink drawing of an arched niche design with a nude female figure, flanking atlantes, a coat of arms and a shell basin.

A Design for a Wall Decoration or Fountain

Cherubino Alberti, 1590s?