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National Gallery of Art

10,026 works

Folk painting of a girl in a red dress with a black apron beside flowers, a fruit basket, and a bird in a garden.

Girl in Red with Flowers and a Distelfink

Unknown artist, c. 1830

Watercolor of a warrior with a shield, a chief in a feathered headdress, and a woman with a child on grassland.

Camanchee Chief, His Wife, and a Warrior

George Catlin, 1861

Two-panel seascape of Dutch and Spanish warships in battle, with cannon smoke and a sinking vessel on rough sea.

A Naval Encounter between Dutch and Spanish Warships

Cornelis Verbeeck, 1618

Painted street scene of a 19th-century town with a City Hotel, a rider on a white horse, and people on balconies and the stre

The Independent Voter

Unknown artist, 1849 or after

Oval painting of a Comanche chief and three warriors on the plains with pale horses behind them.

Camanchee Chief with Three Warriors

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of a three-masted sailing ship under full white sails on turquoise waves, with a red pennant and flag.

Ship in Full Sail

T. Davies, 1827

Still life painting of raspberries, peaches, and grapes in a blue bowl, with a hovering bird and a pear tree.

Still Life: Fruit, Bird, and Dwarf Pear Tree

Charles V. Bond, 1856

Painting of children, two young women, and dogs on prairie grass before a painted tipi under a soft sky.

Camanchee Chief's Children and Wigwam

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Oil painting of ships in choppy green harbor water with an American flag, sailboats, a steamboat, and a green island.

Boston Harbor

Thomas Chambers, mid 19th century

Painting of shirtless bare-knuckle boxers in a roped outdoor ring surrounded by a crowd of men in top hats and bowlers.

Bare Knuckles

George A. Hayes, c. 1870/1885

Painting of a river bank with poplar trees, a sailboat, walking figures and a cloudy sky, in loose Impressionist brushwork.

The Banks of the Oise

Alfred Sisley, 1877

Painting of mounted riders charging across grassland toward tipis near a tree line under a pale blue sky.

Sham Fight of the Camanchees

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of a yellow-sailed packet ship passing a stone fort and hillside town in a green harbor at sunset.

Packet Ship Passing Castle Williams, New York Harbor

Thomas Chambers, mid 19th century

Painting of a crowded masked ball with men in top hats, masked women in black dominoes, and a harlequin in an opera house.

Masked Ball at the Opera

Édouard Manet, 1873

Painting of mounted riders with spears charging across green plains under a cloudy sky.

Camanchee Horsemanship

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of lion, ox, leopard, wolf and lambs resting together with children in a wooded landscape by a river.

Peaceable Kingdom

Edward Hicks, c. 1834

Woman in a blue dress with a dog and book sits beside a girl in white reaching toward an iron railing.

The Railway

Édouard Manet, 1873

Oval painting of mounted warriors on horseback charging across grassland, with a fallen figure and shield in the foreground.

Battle between the Jiccarilla Apachees and Camanchees

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Still life of a woven basket of grapes, pear, plums, peach and watermelon, with a green parrot on a branch.

Basket of Fruit with Parrot

A.M. Randall, 1777

Painting of a matador in black costume and white stockings lying dead on the floor beside a pink cape.

The Dead Bullfighter

Édouard Manet, 1864

Painting of mounted riders, horses, and dogs with travois crossing a green plain toward rolling hills under a cloudy sky.

Camanchees Moving

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of a woven basket overflowing with apples, pears, grapes, strawberries, a rose and a yellow lily.

Basket of Fruit with Flowers

Unknown artist, c. 1830

Painting of the Nativity at night: Mary and shepherds adore the newborn Christ Child, with an angel glowing in the sky above.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, 1530

Mounted warriors with lances gallop across a grassy plain toward distant trees under a pink and blue sky.

Defile of a Camanchee War Party

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Still life with watermelon, pineapple, grapes, flowers and a Baltimore oriole, with a river landscape seen through a window.

Fruit and Baltimore Oriole

Triptych with gold background showing Agony in the Garden, Crucifixion with soldiers and mourners, and Descent into Limbo.

Scenes from the Passion of Christ: The Agony in the Garden, the Crucifixion, and the Descent into Limbo [entire tript…

Andrea Vanni, 1380

Oval painting of a prairie village with tepees, grazing horses, seated figures, and a tree line under a cloudy sky.

Tawahquena Village

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of a man hauling a line on rocky coast beside crashing waves, with a sailboat, wooded hill and mountain at sunset.

Newport Mountain, Mount Desert

Frederic Edwin Church, 1851

Painting of a rocky cliff above a sandy beach with two seated figures, calm sea and small sailboats near the horizon.

A Quiet Day near Manchester

Alfred Thompson Bricher, 1873

Four Pawnee figures in fringed hide garments and beaded necklaces stand in a row on grass against a pale sky.

Pawneepict Chief, Two Daughters, and a Warrior

George Catlin, 1861/1869