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National Gallery of Art

1,161 works

Two children in an interior, a boy in green riding a dappled rocking horse while a girl in red stands beside him.

The Hobby Horse

Robert Peckham, 1840

Painting of a woman in a white gown with red sleeves, flanked by courtiers, a lute player in red, and a man leaning on a colu

"Who Is Sylvia? What Is She, That All the Swains Commend Her?"

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1896-1899; reworked 1900

Interior scene of a seated woman at an embroidery frame beside a standing maid, with floral wallpaper and a bronze bust.

Penelope

Gari Melchers, 1910

Portrait of a woman in pink dress and blue shawl holding a book, with a harbor city view and painted frame in background.

Eliza Wells

Abram Ross Stanley, 1840

Night scene of a glowing white columned temple with a woman in a white dress walking across a shadowed lawn.

May Night

Willard Metcalf, 1906

Gilded triptych with Madonna and Child flanked by Saints Peter and John the Evangelist, with a Man of Sorrows above.

Madonna and Child, with Saints Peter and John the Evangelist, and Man of Sorrows [entire triptych]

Nardo di Cione, c. 1360

Gothic gold-ground triptych with the Madonna and Child enthroned among angels, flanked by two saints in side panels.

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints and Angels, and Saints Anthony Abbot and Venantius [entire triptych]

Puccio di Simone, 1354

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi: Mary holds the Christ child as kneeling and standing kings offer gold vessels.

The Adoration of the Magi

Mazzucchelli, called Morazzone, Pier Francesco, c. 1600

Still life painting of a tipped basket spilling yellow pears, red crabapples and an apple across a white tablecloth.

Basket of Pears and Crabapples

John F. Francis, n.d.

Still life of a cigar box, lit cigar, wine glass, ashtray, pocket knife and watch chain on a red cloth.

Gentlemen's Still Life

John O'Brien Inman, 1871

Woodcut of the Holy Family seated under trees with two angels playing instruments and bearded onlookers, dated 1511.

The Holy Family with Two Music-Making Angels

Albrecht Dürer, 1511

Pencil sketch of a group of men in top hats, a woman, and a child standing together beneath an umbrella.

Study for "The House that Jeff Built"

David Claypoole Johnston, 1863

Engraving of Christ with a cross-topped staff reaching toward a kneeling Mary Magdalene beside a jar in a landscape.

Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene

Martin Schongauer, c. 1480/1490

Engraving of a winged angel and young Tobias walking through a dark wooded landscape toward a distant town under cloudy skies

Tobias and the Angel (The Large Tobias)

Hendrik Goudt after Adam Elsheimer, 1613

Pencil sketch of an older seated man with curly hair, wearing a buttoned coat, hands clasped in his lap.

Seated Peasant

Francesco Zuccarelli

Engraving of crowned Christ blessing the praying Virgin Mary, with three angels in an arch above them.

Christ Blessing the Virgin

Martin Schongauer, c. 1480/1490

Engraving of a dim rustic interior where an old woman and seated men prepare food near a hearth, with candlelight and hanging

Jupiter and Mercury in the House of Philemon and Baucis

Hendrik Goudt after Adam Elsheimer, 1612

Baroque church interior drawing with a columned canopy over an altar and kneeling worshippers in the foreground.

Worshippers at the Tomb of Saint Peter

Matthäus Günther, 1740

Etching of a riverside town with an ornate gothic tomb on the left, an arched bridge, and figures on the bank.

View of a Town with a Bishop's Tomb

Canaletto, c. 1735/1746

Woodcut of four crowned kings seated under a canopy, with four men in period dress standing in the foreground.

Assembly of Four Kings, in the foreground Four Men

Leonhard Beck, 1514/1516

Engraving of an 18th-century concert with musicians beside a harpsichord, a cherub on its lid, and listeners in an ornate roo

The mechanical concert

Joseph de Longueil, 1769

Brown ink wash drawing of a skeleton Death beside a seated old man counting at a table in a dim interior.

Death and the Miser

Nicolaes Maes, 1650/1655

Brown ink and wash drawing of an elderly bearded scholar in a cap leaning over a desk with papers and a quill.

An Old Scholar at His Desk

Style of Rembrandt van Rijn

Illuminated initial Q with gold background showing a procession of children in colorful robes, a mountain and tree, framed by

Initial Q with a Procession of Children

Zanobi Strozzi, 1430

Engraving of a laundress at a washtub, a boy blowing a pipe, a cat, and a woman hanging laundry in a doorway behind.

La Blanchisseuse

Charles-Nicolas Cochin I after Jean Siméon Chardin, 1739

Engraving of musicians performing around a harpsichord with a cherub on its lid, under a chandelier and draped curtains.

Concert Méchanique

Joseph de Longueil after Charles Eisen, 1769

Red chalk drawing of a leafy plant with buds growing from rocks, with a second plant behind it on the right.

Flowering Plant with Buds

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1760

Circular color print of a young woman with powdered hair holding an oval miniature beside a floral garland and stone urn.

Portrait d'une jeune princesse

Jean François Janinet

Engraving of two women in a canopied bed interior, one reading a letter, inside an oval frame with a cherub medallion.

Nouvelles du bien-aime

François Marie Isidore Queverdo and Antoine Louis Romanet

Pen and ink drawing of a pollard willow beside a stream, with shrubs, clouds and a flock of birds in the sky.

A Pollard Willow by a Stream

François Hippolyte Lalaisse, 1840