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National Gallery of Art

25,760 works

Pen drawing on red paper with white highlights: a crowned bearded head, a woman with loose hair, a lamb, and a dove.

Studies of Sudarium and Saint Agnes

Attributed to Tobias Stimmer

Red chalk drawing of a standing man in period costume with a plumed hat, holding an instrument and gazing upward.

Mezzetin

Jean-Antoine Watteau, c. 1716

Watercolor landscape of a river with a rowboat, cattle, village buildings, and wooded hills under a pale sky.

Italian Landscape with a Boating Party

Louis Gabriel Moreau

Brown wash drawing of a garden with tall pine trees, a ladder, statues, a balustrade, figures and cattle.

Gardens of an Italian Villa (Villa Medici?)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1773/1774

Pen and wash drawing of a rustic farmhouse interior with a seated woman, a child, a cat, and a figure on stairs.

Interior of a Farmhouse with Figures

Attributed to Hubert Robert, late 18th century

Watercolor drawing of a garden with a stone tower, cypress trees, a wheelbarrow, and a boat beside a blue wall.

L'Allee de Grenadiers

Unknown artist, last third 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of a rural farmyard with a thatched cottage, a cow, barrels, seated figures and trees.

Farm Scene

I Jean-Baptiste Hüet, 1779

Red chalk sketch of two seated women in flowing period dress, one holding a fan, drawn with loose hatched lines.

Two Seated Ladies

Nicolas Lancret

Watercolor of a thatched cottage among trees with wooden fences, barrels on a dirt path, and small figures under a blue sky.

Landscape

Louis Gabriel Moreau, probably c. 1780

Watercolor landscape of a whitewashed farmhouse, trees, a dirt road, and a stone monument under a pale blue sky.

Landscape

Louis Gabriel Moreau, late 1770s

Watercolor of strollers on a stone terrace in a park, with statues, trees and a blue mountain range in the distance.

Panoramic View across a Terraced Park

Louis Gabriel Moreau, 1780/1790

Watercolor drawing of a thatched mill beside a stream, with a wooden bridge, two figures, rowboats and trees.

Mill with Bridge and Figures

Louis Gabriel Moreau

Oval view of a formal lattice-fenced garden with a statue, a stone mansion at left, trees, and strolling figures under blue s

The Potager of the Hôtel de Valentinois in Passy

Nicolas Pérignon, c. 1780

Pen and wash drawing of villagers dancing in a rustic barn while a flute player stands on a barrel and onlookers watch.

The Peasant Dance

Hubert Robert, c. 1770/1775

Watercolor garden scene with ruined columns, figures on a seesaw, an arched bridge, pines and a seated statue.

The Seesaw

Style of Hubert Robert

Drawing of a seated woman and a man in a plumed hat on a sofa, with a cupid above and a flaming heart below.

Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette Crowned by Love

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1775

Pen and watercolor drawing of a man kissing a woman in white on a garden terrace, with a second man and dogs nearby.

Loaned Kiss

Jacques Louis François Touzé, in or before 1795

Watercolor of a veiled bride embraced by a groom beside a tree, with a man in a red coat gesturing and a church behind.

The Kiss Returned

Jacques Louis François Touzé, in or before 1795

Grey wash drawing of a ruined arch and tower framing a harbor with ships and figures on steps.

Port Scene

Follower of Claude-Joseph Vernet

Black and red chalk sketch of three studies of a woman's head and a hand reaching across the page.

Three Studies of a Woman's Head and a Study of Hands [recto]

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718/1719

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated woman in a wreath playing a lute, with flowing drapery.

The Lute Player

after Orazio Gentileschi, 18th century

Pen-and-ink sketch of a standing man holding an open book, with handwritten notes and a letter beneath, by Winslow Homer.

Sunday after Christmas 1848

Winslow Homer, 1868

Etching of a weathered wooden shed with a shingled roof, a bare tree in front, and two buckets on a table at right.

Dooryard, Buckets and Tree

Etching of a seated woman leaning toward a child beside a footstool in a dim interior with a fireplace.

Mother and Child

Etching of a standing nude youth with a staff, antlers, drapery ribbons and stars around him, on a pale ground.

Arcturus

J. Alden Weir, 1893

Drypoint print of a young girl in a wide-brimmed feathered hat and ruffled dress standing beside a railing.

Young Girl with Large Hat

J. Alden Weir, 1893

Graphite drawing of a hand with shaded fingers and a sleeve cuff at the wrist, on pale paper, initialed A. L.

The Hand of the Artist's Daughter

Alphonse Legros

Graphite drawing of a seated female nude resting her head on her arm, with loose drapery sketched beneath her.

Female Nude Seated

Alphonse Legros

Profil de lumiere (Profile of light)

Odilon Redon, 1886

Etching of the Virgin seated holding the Christ Child, who reaches for a rose, both with halos against draped curtains.

The Virgin and Child with a Rose

Jacques Bellange, c. 1612-1616