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National Gallery of Art

25,760 works

Engraving of the Holy Family resting in a wooded landscape with a donkey, river, town, and hills beneath clouds.

Fuga Deiparae in Aegyptum (The Flight into Egypt)

Johannes and Lucas van Doetechum after Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1555/1557

Woodcut of the Holy Family with Saint Anne and Saint Joachim, a dove and angels in clouds above.

The Holy Family with Saint Anne and Saint Joachim

Hans Burgkmair, 1512

Etching of the Holy Family on a donkey beside a large tree, with a bridge, village buildings and a church spire behind.

The Flight into Egypt

Balthazar Moncornet

Hand-colored woodcut of a central saint with a crucifix among vine branches, grapes, scrolls, haloed figures and a dog.

The Genealogical Tree of the Dominicans

Unknown artist, 1480/1490

Painted miniature of a haloed risen Christ with a cross banner, surrounded by sleeping armored soldiers and a landscape.

The Resurrection

Simon Bening, c. 1530

Engraving of a large three-masted ship under full sail with flags, in rough seas near a rocky coast.

Ship in Full Sail with Two Flags

Follower of Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Gold-printed endpaper on rose paper showing many animals, small human figures and a central tree in rows.

Endpaper with Animals and Figures

Unknown artist

Red sheet printed in gold with rows of small scenes of a peasant wedding: procession, feasting, dancing and a wagon.

Endpaper with Peasant Wedding

Paul Reimund, c. 1780

Blue sheet with copper-brown printed scenes of knights, a horseback rider, and figures in a Gothic castle hall within a decor

Endpaper with Scenes from the Life of a Knight

Paul Reimund, c. 1780

Grid of twelve gold-printed scenes on dark paper, each labeled with a month, showing rural and seasonal activities.

Endpaper with the Twelve Months

Unknown artist

Orange sheet with twelve gold-toned standing costumed figures in arched frames, with animal vignettes along the bottom row.

Endpaper with Twelve Standing Figures

Unknown artist

Gold-printed grid of twenty-one standing figures in period costume on green paper, each labeled with a German caption.

Endpaper with Twenty-One Standing Figures

Unknown artist

Four haloed saints in colored ink on parchment, one holding a palm frond, with inscriptions naming them above.

Saints Cyprian, Vitus, Stephan, and Cornelius

Unknown artist, third quarter 12th century

Pale interlaced initial with red outlines and foliate scrolls on green and grey ground, above a line of brown manuscript text

Initials V and D

Unknown artist, third quarter 12th century

Engraving of a drummer striking a kettle drum beside a fife player with a small drum, with German text below.

Die Herpavck vnd andere Drvmmen zvernst vnd Schimpf wir lassen ervmmen

Unknown artist, c. 1580

Three bearded men in feathered hats play flutes together in a hand-colored German print from around 1580.

Gantz loblich Pfeiffen wir all drei avs der Mvsic: Schon Melodey

Unknown artist, c. 1580

Engraving of three seated musicians playing lute, harp and wind instrument, with German verse text below.

Die Instrvment gantz lvstig Kling vorab wen man darein tvt singen

Unknown artist, c. 1580

Engraving of five singers gathered around a table reading songbooks, one marked BAS, under a draped canopy with vine decorati

Liblich singen wir avs der Mass den Tenor discant Alt und Bass

Unknown artist, c. 1580

Engraving of three bearded men in feathered caps playing stringed instruments, with German verse text below.

Nach der Mvsic: Geigen wir drei gantz Kvnstlice vnd artliche dabei

Unknown artist, c. 1580

Engraving of a man playing a lute beside a woman at a positive organ, with German inscription below.

Ich schlag das Positif mit Schall die Zytternavchmacht frolich all

Unknown artist, c. 1580

Engraving of a draped female figure playing panpipes beside a blank disc, with a hilly landscape behind her.

Polimnia (Polyhymnia)

Master of the E-Series Tarocchi, c. 1465

Engraving of Venus with a winged Cupid holding a bow, nude nymphs on a rocky shore, and birds flying in the sky.

Venus

Master of the E-Series Tarocchi, c. 1465

Illuminated manuscript page with a seated evangelist in a decorated blue initial beside columns of Latin text.

Saint Luke

Unknown artist, fourth quarter 12th century

Two facing manuscript pages of Latin Gospel text with red initials and a decorated rubric beginning Saint Mark.

Saint Mark

Unknown artist, fourth quarter 12th century

Pen and wash drawing of the Flight into Egypt with Mary, the Christ child, Joseph and a donkey, plus sketches and Latin text.

The Flight into Egypt [recto]

Unknown artist, early 15th century

Pen and brown ink sketch on paper with figures in framed registers and handwritten Latin text at the top and sides.

The Destruction of the Egyptian Idols [verso]

Unknown artist, early 15th century

Engraving of a haloed saint gesturing to a figure on a rocky hillside, with a city and clouds in the background.

Saint Filippo Benizzi Healing a Beggar

After Andrea del Sarto, c. 1510/1520

Woodcut of the crowned Madonna seated on a grassy bank holding the Christ child, with a castle and river in the background.

Madonna and Child on the Grassy Bank

Hans Baldung Grien, 1505

Woodcut of nude women bathing in a wooden bathhouse beside a brick oven, with a bearded man and a child nearby.

Women's Bath

Follower of Albrecht Dürer, c. 1505/1510

Woodcut of Saint Colomannus with halo and pilgrim staff in a landscape beside a tree and a lion coat of arms.

Saint Colomannus

Willem Liefrinck after Leonhard Beck, 1516/1518