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National Gallery of Art

14,495 works

Oil portrait of a woman in a white silk gown with feathered headdress and flower garland, leaning on a stone ledge.

Madame du Barry

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1782

Small oil portrait of a man with tousled hair, dark coat and white neckcloth, against a dark brown background.

Joseph Gales

Samuel Finley Breese Morse, 1821/1822

Seated man in red coat and white cravat holding a handwritten page before green drapery, painted portrait.

Thomas Corcoran

Charles Peale Polk, c. 1802/1810

Painting of a sunlit forest valley with a rocky stream, large boulders, and hills under a cloudy blue sky.

Scene in the Catskills

Paul Weber, 1858

Half-length portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat against a pink background.

Portrait of a Gentleman

Ammi Phillips, 1812/1819

Oil portrait of an older woman in a white lace bonnet, brown dress and pearl necklace, against a plain muted background.

Portrait of a Lady

Ammi Phillips, 1812/1819

Woman in red skirt sewing white cloth on a wooden chair beneath a tree, painted in loose, sunlit brushstrokes.

The Layette

Theodore Robinson, 1892

Oil portrait of an elderly man with curly grey hair in a dark coat against a red drapery backdrop.

Self-Portrait

Thomas Sully, 1850

Portrait of a man in a brown coat and powdered wig, leaning on a blue drape beside a column with a landscape behind.

Simon Pease

Robert Feke, c. 1749

Loose oil sketch of a woman in blue seated on a bench and a man in grey leaning toward a painting on a wall.

Charles Sheeler and Nina Allender

Morton Livingston Schamberg, c. 1906

Painting of a winged angel above a sleeping veiled woman on a grassy bank, under a dark sky with a glowing horizon.

Mercy's Dream

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Oval-framed portrait of a smiling woman with curled hair, white ruffled collar, and gold chain with a child miniature.

Sarah Shippen Lea (Mrs. Thomas Lea)

Gilbert Stuart, c. 1798

Painting of a festive interior with women in gowns, musicians, a laid dining table, red curtains, and onlookers in a grand ro

A Celebration

Eugène Isabey, 1874

Painting of a baby in a white gown holding a silver rattle against a deep red background.

Arsène Carriere

Eugène Carrière, 1899/1900

Oil portrait of a seated man with white curled hair, dark coat and white cravat against a brown background.

Thomas Jefferson

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1848/1879

Portrait of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat and white ruff, holding a rolled sheet of music against a brown background.

Man with a Sheet of Music

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1633

Painting of a seated nude woman holding a hand mirror, with loose brushwork and a dark interior background.

Seated Nude

Robert Henri, c. 1918

Painting of a haystack with a ladder by a fence at dusk, with a setting sun over a calm sea.

The Haystack and the Moon

Jean-Charles Cazin, after 1876

Full-length portrait of a man in black robe holding a small book, with a swan, Bible, and bookshelf in an interior.

Martin Luther

Frederick Kemmelmeyer, c. 1800

Painting of a mother nursing an infant in a sunlit autumn garden, seated in a red chair beside a table with an apple.

Maternity

Gari Melchers, c. 1913

Portrait of a seated woman in white dress and lace bonnet beside a table with pink roses, before green drapery.

Hannah Lemmon Corcoran (Mrs. Thomas Corcoran)

Charles Peale Polk, c. 1802/1810

Loose oil sketch of a cave dwelling with a standing woman at a doorway and a seated child in yellow in sunlight.

Roma Caves, Granada

Mariano Fortuny Marsal, c. 1871

Painting of a mounted officer in blue uniform on a grey horse, pointing forward, with aides and trees behind him.

Washington before Yorktown

Rembrandt Peale, 1824, reworked 1825

Oval oil portrait of an elderly bearded man with white hair and a dark coat against a dark background.

William Cullen Bryant

Charles Loring Elliott, c. 1854

Oil portrait of a man with powdered white hair, dark coat and white lace jabot against a dark brown background.

George Washington

Gilbert Stuart, c. 1800

Two women in white caps in a kitchen; a young woman reads a letter by a window while an older woman watches.

The Letter

Gari Melchers, 1882

Full-length portrait of a woman in black dress and white satin skirt beside a table with fruit and silver ewer, in a room int

Maria van Suchtelen

Gérard ter Borch, c. 1666

Painting of a nude figure in a yellow drape reaching toward a tree where a pale figure rises among the leaves against blue sk

Apollo and Daphne

John Singer Sargent, c. 1916/1919

Oil portrait of a man in a dark coat holding a handwritten letter, with a quill pen and inkstand on a red-draped table.

Henry Clay

Charles Bird King, 1821

Woman in a dark gown looks into a mirror at a wooden dressing table with perfume bottles and flowers.

The Toilet

Eastman Johnson, 1873