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National Gallery of Art

236 works

Etching of sailing ships on choppy sea before a mountainous coast with small buildings on the cliffs and clouds above.

Harbor Scene with Mountainous Background

Reinier Nooms, probably c. 1656

Etching of a lake beneath dark mountains and hatched clouds, with pine trees and fence posts in the foreground.

On the Walchen Sea (Am Walchensee)

Lovis Corinth, 1920

Engraving of an armed three-masted ship with full sails beside a galley on rough open sea.

Armed Three-Master on the Open Sea, Accompanied by a Galley

Frans Huys after Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Hand-coloured print of Dutch ships on choppy water under stormy clouds, with a city skyline in the distance.

Amsterdam, Ships at the IJ on Choppy Waters

Workshop of Johann Teyler, after Johannes van den Aveele, c. 1685-1697

Etching of a gnarled tree on a rocky coastal headland, with cumulus clouds and sunbeams over the sea.

Coast at Monterey, California

George Elbert Burr, 1925

Etching of Moses raising a staff as Israelites cross rocky terrain while waves overwhelm soldiers in the sea.

The Crossing of the Red Sea

Jacques Callot, 1629

Etching of a mountain lake landscape with a tall spruce, shrubs, a wooden cabin and hatched foreground, signed by Lovis Corin

Grosse Walchenseelandschaft (Large Walchen Sea Landscape)

Lovis Corinth, 1923

Engraving of a three-masted warship with full sails and a smaller galley on rough open sea under a cloudy sky.

Armed Three-Master on the Open Sea, Accompanied by a Galley

Pen and ink print of a fishing boat on shore, a man carrying oars, and sailing ships on the distant water.

Marine: Fishing Boats on Shore, Man with Oars, Ship in Distance

John Thomas Serres, 1803

Print of horsemen drowning in a stormy sea as a robed man raises a staff, with a distant city and cliff under clouds.

The Submersion of Pharoah's Army in the Red Sea

Titian, c. 1514/1515

Brown ink and wash drawing of a fortified town with a gateway, soldiers, sailing boats and horsemen on a shoreline.

A Coastal Scene with a Fortified Town

Jacob van der Ulft, 1670

Engraved print of an ornate pendant with ribbon bow, pear-shaped drops, and two mermaid-like sea creatures below.

Large Pendant, Lower Left and Right Two Creatures of the Sea

Daniel Mignot, 1596

Etching of a harbor with a classical arch, sailors handling rowboats, moored ships, and a calm sea under a pale sky.

Harbor Scene with Rising Sun (Le soleil levant)

Claude Lorrain, 1634

Night harbor print with dark silhouetted sailboats, a crescent moon above, and moonlight rippling across the water below.

Moonlight in the Harbor at Dieppe

Henri Charles Guérard, 1885

Etching of a three-masted sailing ship in choppy sea beside jagged rocks under a cloudy sky.

Ship Navigating Near Rocks

Jacques Callot, 1628

Green-toned print of a three-masted ship in rough seas with waves, a distant ship, and birds in the sky.

Two Three-Master Ships off a Coastline

attributed to workshop of Willem Jansz. Blaeu, after 1600

Wash drawing of a rocky cove with a tree-topped cliff, rowing boats with figures, and sailing ships on the water.

Figures in Rowing Boats in a Rocky Cove, Sailing Ships Beyond

Allart van Everdingen

Black ink print on yellow paper showing a churning maelstrom, a small ship on the horizon, and a figure gripping rocks.

Dramas of the Sea: A Descent into the Maelstrom (Les drames de la mer: une descente dans le maelstrom)

Paul Gauguin, 1889

Etching of Moses pointing as the Israelites cross, while Pharaoh's horses and soldiers drown in the waves of the Red Sea.

Moses Closing the Red Sea

Augustin Hirschvogel, 1548

Grey wash drawing of three sailing ships tossed by heavy waves under a dark, stormy sky.

Ships in a Stormy Sea

Petrus Johannes Schotel, 1840

Watercolor of a lighthouse on a rocky headland with a red-sailed boat in choppy seas under stormy clouds.

Seascape with Lighthouse

Attributed to James Bulwer

Lithograph title page showing sailing boats and a beached rowboat on a shoreline under a cloudy sky, for Six marines by Isabe

Six marines

Eugène Isabey, 1833

Pen and ink drawing of a sailing ship and rowboats at a harbor with a statue, spired buildings and clouds.

Seascape

Rodolphe Bresdin

Grey wash drawing of a fleet of sailing ships with flags on a calm, hazy sea.

Marine

Style of Willem van de Velde the Younger

Grey wash drawing of several sailing ships on a calm sea under a hazy sky, with a large ship with tall masts in the foregroun

Marine

Attributed to Willem van de Velde the Younger

Etching of a gnarled tree on a rocky coast with a sea horizon and stormy sky, by James David Smillie, 1880.

Old Cedars, Coast of Maine

James David Smillie, 1880

Black and white engraving of men in straw hats in a rowboat, with sailing schooners on a harbor behind them.

Gloucester Harbor

after Winslow Homer, published 1873

Lithograph of two Breton women in dark dress beside a cow, with a rough sea and cliffs behind them.

Dramas of the Sea, Brittany (Les drames de la mer, Bretagne)

Paul Gauguin, 1889, published after 1900

Night landscape with a moonlit castle behind dark trees, framed by a pen-and-ink border with scrolls and a sarcophagus.

Das Schloss am Meer (Castle on the Sea)

Adolf Friedrich Teichs, 1850

Engraving of sailors gathering a sail on a yard above a stormy sea, with snow falling under a dark sky.

Winter at Sea - Taking in Sail Off the Coast

after Winslow Homer, published 1869