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National Gallery of Art

149 works

Hand-colored print of a male and female greater bird of paradise perching on a branch with pink flowers and green leaves.

Bird of Paradise (Paradisea apoda)

John Gould and W. Hart, published 1875-1888

Pen and ink sketch of a standing nude man beside a hatched, maned lion on pale paper.

Male Nude with a Lion [verso]

Albrecht Dürer, c. 1500

Graphite sketch of a bearded man's head above a smaller drawing of a dog's head on pale paper.

Head of a Bearded Man with a Head of a Dog [recto]

Paul Gauguin, 1884-1888

Grey wash drawing of an owl flying above kneeling figures before classical columns and an altar with flames.

Pallas Athene in the Form of a Bird Leaving Nestor and Telemachus

Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier, c. 1780

Etching of a ruined arch with a stone basin, where many birds perch in pine trees and fly across the sky.

Abreuvoir d'oiseaux (The Birds' Watering Place)

Quentin-Pierre Chedel after François Boucher, 1754

Engraving of an ornate column topped by a many-breasted female figure, with stags, a griffin, unicorns and winged figures.

A Grotesque with Diana of Ephesus and Diverse Animals

Master AP, 1555

Pen and brown ink drawing of a standing nude figure with draped cloth, beside a cat, a pig, and a pedestal.

Allegorical Figure with a Cat and a Pig

Jacopo di Giovanni di Francesco, c. 1530

Black woodcut print on yellow paper showing a boy holding a cat, with bold angular dark shapes and light gouged areas.

Boy with Cat (Knabe mit Katze)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1919

Lion's Head from the Capitoline Staircase

Augustin Pajou, 1752/1756

Charcoal sketch of a horse with its head turned left, carrying a rider seen from behind.

Horse and Rider

Edgar Degas, c. 1878

Hand-colored print of a reclining lion in front of a rock face beneath a leafy tree.

The Lion

John Baptist Jackson, 1754

Sketch in brown wash and graphite of a seated cat with white chest and muzzle, turned to the right, on tan paper.

Cat with a White Front

Gwen John, 1910/1915

Etched landscape with a rocky cliff, pine trees, a stream with dogs, and two figures, one on horseback, under a cloudy sky.

A Woman with a Horse and a Standing Man

Joachim Franz Beich, c.1700-1725

Ink sketch of two angular dancers on brown paper, with a cat sitting in the lower left corner.

Two Dancers with a Cat

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1913

Red chalk drawing of a young woman in a bonnet sewing while a small dog rests on her lap.

Young Woman Sewing with a Dog Resting on Her Lap

Johann Gottlieb Glume, 1750s(?)

Poster of a black cat with a red ornamental halo, above French text advertising the Chat Noir company and Rodolphe Salis.

Prochainement la très illustre Compagnie du Chat Noir (Poster for the Company of the Black Cat)

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, 1896

Graphite sketch of two men shoeing a horse before a dark stable, with a second horse and resting dogs sketched below.

Men Shoeing a Horse

Walter Shirlaw, late 19th century

Daumier lithograph of a couple at a dinner table with a small dog and a wine bottle, drawn in heavy black ink.

Monsieur a sa bête, Madame son animal...

Honoré Daumier, 1840

Pencil sketch on an oval sheet showing several studies of dogs and a seated boy in a hat at lower center.

Studies of Dogs and a Seated Boy [recto]

James Goodwyn Clonney, c. 1840-1850

Etching of a wooded landscape with a flock of birds overhead, a stone path, a shrine, and robed figures walking.

The Salutation of the Birds (Il Saluto degli uccelli) [plate C]

Lino Moroni, 1612

Lithograph of winged Cupid with bow and quiver subduing a lion beside a rocky mountain landscape.

L’Amour terrassant un lion (Personification of Love Vanquishing a Lion)

Philippe Auguste Hennequin, 1825

Pencil sketch on an oval sheet of several men: a standing figure with raised arm, a top-hatted man, and a small portrait head

Studies of Dogs and Men [verso]

James Goodwyn Clonney, c. 1840-1850

Drawing of an imaginary classical colonnade with Corinthian columns, vaulted ceilings, and a small soldier with a dog below.

Architectural Capriccio with a Soldier and Dog

Vittorio Maria Bigari, mid-18th century

Watercolor of a dead yellow-breasted bird on the ground among dry stems, with a hazy autumn landscape behind it.

Dead Yellow-breasted Bird in Autumn Landscape

Fidelia Bridges, 1870s

Book page with German poem Die Vögel and a black woodcut vignette of stylized birds, page 58.

Die Vögel (The Birds) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1912/1922

Etching of a tree-framed London-style street with row houses, shop awnings, a lamppost and small figures on the pavement.

The Sign of the White Horse, Parson's Green

Theodore Roussel, c. 1906

Hand-colored bird plate showing a mountain mockingbird above a male and female varied thrush on a mistletoe branch.

Mountain Mocking-bird and Varied Thrush

Robert Havell after John James Audubon, 1837

Hand-colored plate of two hovering Ruff-necked Hummingbirds near a pink flower, with a perched female on a nest below.

Ruff-necked Humming-bird

Robert Havell after John James Audubon, 1837

Hand-coloured print of a yellow warbler and three blue bluebirds perched on a branch with red flowers and leaves.

Townsend's Warbler, Arctic Blue Bird and Western Blue Bird

Robert Havell after John James Audubon, 1837