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National Gallery of Art

25,760 works

Etched dedication plate with an oval cartouche of six spheres, putti holding a crown, weapons and garlands, inscribed to Don

Dedication to Don Pietro Medici from "Bizzarie di varie Figure"

Giovanni Battista Bracelli, 1624

Woodcut print of a bull charging a tumbling man in a top hat, with an umbrella and cape on the ground below.

Don Chepito

José Guadalupe Posada, 1891

Brown ink drawing of a dense forest with a path, a pond at left, and small deer resting among the trees.

Deer Park

Pen and brown ink drawing of a bearded reclining river god beside an eagle, with a winged staff and distant classical figures

River God with an Eagle

Brown wash drawing of a robed woman with a torch and vessel at night beside a house, with a crescent moon above.

Stellio Changed into a Lizard by Ceres

Leonaert Bramer

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bear standing upright with raised paws, with a smaller sketch of another bear in the upper le

Studies of a Bear

Leonaert Bramer, 1620

Brown wash drawing of a pastoral landscape with classical ruins, a large tree, cattle, and a herdsman under a cloudy sky.

Landscape

Style of Claude Lorrain

Engraving of a crowned, bearded ruler in a fur-trimmed robe, seated on a throne and raising a sword.

Ferdinand I

Augustin Hirschvogel, 1546

Circular engraved print of radiating interlaced knot pattern with a central shield reading ACADEMIA LEONARDI VIN.

First Knot

after Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1490/1500

Engraved circular print of interlaced knotwork with inscribed roundels, plus four small knot fragments in the corners.

Fourth Knot

after Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1490/1500

Engraved print of a circular interlaced knot pattern with Latin letters, with four corner knot ornaments on a cream sheet.

Sixth Knot

after Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1490/1500

Engraving of Christ as Saviour with radiant halo, holding a globe, flanked by angels under Gothic arches.

Christ as Saviour

Master E. S., c. 1467

Circular light-line facsimile of the Madonna and Child seated in a garden with a crown above and plants around.

The Madonna and Child in a Garden

Master E.S. Facsimile, 19th century facsimile after an engraving of c. 1465-1467

Engraving of shepherds adoring an infant beneath a stone arch and columns, with a radiant sun and distant town.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Master HFE after Domenico Beccafumi

Engraving of elegant guests dining at a round table under a vine pergola, with a lute player, dogs and servants.

Banquet in the Park of a French Castle

Master HS, c. 1550

Pen and brown ink drawing of a draped funeral interior with a raised bier and standing mourners in period dress.

Maniere d'exposer les nobles apres leur mort

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin

Pencil drawing of a nude male statue on a pedestal beside a seated woman, with sketched architecture behind them.

Rendezvous in the Palais Royal

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1774

Manuscript calendar page with numbered days, saints' names in black and red script, and a blue and gold illuminated initial a

Page from a Book of Hours

Unknown artist, c. 1400?

Engraving of the Nativity with the Virgin kneeling by the infant Christ, an ox and donkey, angels, and shepherds in the backg

The Nativity

Israhel van Meckenem after Hans Holbein the Elder, c. 1490/1500

Pen and ink drawing of a seated nude young model resting her head on her arms, with hatched shading around the figure.

Nude Model Seated

Alphonse Legros

Pen and ink drawing of a seated elderly nude man seen from behind, with head bowed and body shaded by cross-hatching.

Old Man

Alphonse Legros

Pencil study of a child's head with curly hair and a calm gaze, signed A. Legros 1904.

Study of Cupid (Head of a Girl)

Alphonse Legros, 1904

Etched portrait of a bearded man with a mustache, turned three-quarters, with cross-hatched background and signature at lower

E.D. Adams, 3rd plate

Alphonse Legros

Print of an elderly bearded man in a dark cloak looking upward, rendered in dense hatched lines against a dark background.

Night Crier (Le crieur de nuit)

Alphonse Legros

Etching of three fishermen's wives in bonnets beside a stone wall and wooden post, one woman standing at right.

Fishermen's Wives (Femmes de pecheurs)

Alphonse Legros

Monk Playing the Organ in Church (Moine jouant de l'orgue a l'eglise)

Alphonse Legros

Monochrome print of a man carrying a bundle of sticks on a path past trees and a thatched cottage on a hill.

Return of the Fagot-gatherer, 2nd plate (Le retour du fagotier)

Alphonse Legros

Circular engraving of a drunken Silenus reclining while a satyr pours wine, framed by putti in a grapevine wreath.

The Drunken Silenus ("The Tazza Farnese")

Annibale Carracci, 1597

Engraving of a seated woman reading as a toddler holds a swallow, with a boy beside them and a donkey and man in the backgrou

The Madonna of the Swallow (La Madonna Della Rondinella)

Annibale Carracci, 1587

Etching of a kneeling man on a forest path beside tall trees, with dense hatched undergrowth and a distant hill.

The Prodigal Son, 2nd plate (L'enfant prodigue)

Alphonse Legros