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National Gallery of Art

25,760 works

Pencil sketch of two young women in long full dresses with puffed sleeves, standing side by side.

Study of Two Young Women [recto]

Valentine Cameron Prinsep

Painted birth and baptismal certificate for Anne Andres with red lettering, floral borders, houses, trees, and costumed figur

Birth and Baptismal Certificate for Anne Andres

Johannes Ernst Spangenberg, c. 1783

Symmetrical folk-art arrangement of many animals, including giraffes, elephants, lions and peacocks, in rows on a beige groun

Cutout of Animals

Unknown artist, second quarter 19th century

Oval engraved portrait of a woman with curly hair wearing a striped bonnet with frilled edges and a bow at her neck.

Head of a Woman Wearing a Striped Bonnet

Augustin de Saint-Aubin

Mrs. John Bard

Sharples Family, 1796/1801

Etching of an ivy-covered cottage with paned windows, an open doorway, and a chimney, rendered in fine hatched lines.

Home Sweet Home Cottage, No. 3, Easthampton

Childe Hassam, 1928

Etching of a weathered shingled farmhouse with a chimney, shaded by trees, with chickens in the yard.

The Old Mulford House

Childe Hassam, 1926

Watercolor of moored boats with red sails along a Venetian waterfront, with a bell tower and gondola under a cloudy sky.

Shipping Along the Molo in Venice

William Stanley Haseltine

Watercolor of a snow-capped mountain across a calm lake, with trees and reeds on the right shore under a pale sky.

Mount Tacoma

William Stanley Haseltine, 1899

Watercolor of a calm lagoon with a dark rowing boat, a red-sailed boat, and distant buildings under a grey sky.

A Venetian Lagoon

William Stanley Haseltine, 1871/1874

Engraving of two women holding the severed head of a bearded man beside a tree, with a walled city in the distance.

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Girolamo Mocetto after Andrea Mantegna, c. 1500/1505

Etching of a dying warrior supported by companions in a columned hall, with armored soldiers and a woman mourning beside him.

The Death of Tancred [left]

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1760

Etching of armed soldiers in a columned courtyard around a kneeling chained woman, with a warrior gesturing dramatically.

The Challenge [right]

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1760

Hand-colored woodcut of a haloed, bound nude figure being flogged by two men under a Gothic arch.

The Flagellation

Hand-colored woodcut of haloed Christ being stripped of his robe by bearded men in red, with a green ground.

Christ Stripped of His Garment

Emperor Maximilian I in the Guise of Saint George

Daniel Hopfer, c. 1509/1510

Etching of a Tree of Life with the Trinity above and Franciscan friars kneeling in adoration beneath it.

The Holy Trinity in the Tree of Life, Adored by Franciscans

Jacques Callot, in or after 1621

Woodcut of foot soldiers fighting with long lances before a walled city, with fallen figures in the foreground.

Battle of the Foot Soldiers with Lances

Hans Burgkmair, 1514/1516

Engraving of a kneeling armored warrior before a bearded priest with a crescent headdress, with a domed temple behind them.

Alexander and the High Priest of Jerusalem

Pen and brown ink sketch of a nude woman bending over a reclining man, with a draped figure and small study figures beside.

Venus Lamenting Adonis

Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1608-1612

Engraving of Saint Martin on horseback in a crowded boat, surrounded by grotesque figures, with a harbor town behind.

Saint Martin with His Horse in a Ship

Johannes van Doetechum, the Elder, and Lucas van Doetechum, after Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1561

Woodcut of a stag hunt with mounted hunters, hounds and spearmen in a forest, with a castle on a hill in the distance.

The Stag Hunt

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Green chiaroscuro woodcut of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, a kneeling king, horses, and an ox.

The Adoration of the Magi

after Parmigianino Giuseppe Nicolo Vicentino

Etching of a seated winged putto beside a blank cartouche, with mythological figures in clouds above and a sea chariot at lef

Title Page for "Jeu des Mythologie"

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Etching of Vulcan at an anvil in a smoky forge, facing a draped woman who approaches from the right.

Vulcan and Thetis

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Three etched mythological scenes: a woman by a sea monster, a hunter with a dog in woods, and two running figures.

Perseus and Andromeda; Cephalus and Procris; Hippomene and Atalantus

Stefano Della Bella, 1644

Woodcut of the Virgin Mary holding the dead Christ across her lap, both with halos, framed by a leafy border.

The Lamentation

Albrecht Dürer, c. 1500

Woodcut of the Virgin nursing the Christ Child, surrounded by four angels under a grapevine canopy.

The Virgin Nursing the Christ Child with Four Angels

Albrecht Dürer, c. 1500

Woodcut of Saint Matthias with halo, holding a carpenter's square and axe, with a hilltop town behind him.

Saint Matthias

Albrecht Dürer, c. 1500

Woodcut of Saint Erasmus, a bishop seated in a Gothic arch with mitre, crosier and radiating halo.

Saint Erasmus

Albrecht Dürer, c. 1500