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National Gallery of Art

25,760 works

Black chalk sketches of two standing women in long draped garments on a tan paper ground.

Two Studies of a Standing Woman

Unknown artist, early 17th century

Black chalk and white highlight study of a standing female nude with arms raised overhead on blue-grey paper.

Study of a Female Nude

Alessandro Casolani

Chalk study on grey paper with several figures: a bearded man in a turban, a nude torso, a raised arm, and a foot.

Study for Miraculous Draught of Fishes (?)

Pen and ink drawing of a martyrdom scene with soldiers, a mounted rider, a hilltop group, and a distant town.

The Martyrdom of Saint Alexander of Bergamo

Lorenzo Lotto, c. 1524

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated nude man looking upward, with crucifixion scene and angels in background.

The Good Thief

Karel van Mander I

Brown ink and wash landscape with a wooden bridge, ruined walls, tall trees and small figures on a path under clouds.

Landscape with Bridge and Ruins in Background

Pieter Dircksz Santvoort

Dark lithograph portrait of a bald, bearded man facing forward, lit from the upper left against a shadowy background.

Self-Portrait (Steinlen de face, tete droite)

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, 1905

Brown ink drawing of God the Father on clouds with angels playing harp and lute and putti below.

God the Father and Angels on Clouds

Raffaello Motta

Study for "The Four Doctors of the Church"

Domenico Beccafumi

Drawing of a Japanese interior with a seated artist, a woman holding flowers, a child, and hanging scrolls on the walls.

Japanese Artist at Work

Adolph Menzel, 1886

Etching of a winter landscape with skaters and sledge pullers on a frozen canal, a stone gate, and windmills in the distance.

Winter Landscape

Jan van de Velde II

Fantastic Heads

after Jacques de Gheyn III Bartholomeus Breenbergh, 1638

Engraved grotesque panel with strapwork, satyrs, putti, foliage and a seated woman in an ornamental frame.

Surface Decoration, Grotesque with Strapwork

Johannes van Doetechum the Elder, and Lucas van Doetechum, after Cornelis Floris II, 1556

Engraved design of a symmetrical niche in a cartouche with grotesque figures, fruit garlands, and lion masks.

Niche in the Form of a Cartouche

Johannes van Doetechum the Elder, and Lucas van Doetechum, after Cornelis Floris II, 1556

Engraving of the Annunciation: an angel with a lily descends toward the Virgin seated at a lectern beneath a dove in radiant

The Annunciation

Adriaan de Weerdt, 1573

Brown ink and blue wash drawing of soldiers and women struggling beneath classical columns in a colonnade.

Massacre of the Innocents [recto]

called Bertoia Jacopo Zanguidi

Pen and wash drawing of a distant town skyline with church towers and a windmill across an open landscape.

View of Mons, Belgium

Mon Enfant (My Child)

Odilon Redon, 1892

Engraving of two infant boys playing with a lamb beside a tree trunk, with a landscape of trees and hills behind them.

The Infant Christ and Saint John Playing with the Lamb

Christoffel Jegher after Sir Peter Paul Rubens, 1632-1636

Engraving of two muscular nude men embracing, one pointing outward, beside a broken tree stump.

Two Nude Men

Marcantonio Raimondi after Michelangelo

Red chalk and wash drawing of a kneeling bishop in mitre and robes reading a book at a lectern.

Seated Bishop

Abraham Bloemaert, c. 1620 - 1630

Pen and ink drawing of a walled town with towers beneath mountains, with hills and trees in the foreground.

View of Fondi

Attributed to Anonymous Fabriczy, second half 16th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of Saint Lawrence on a grill surrounded by executioners and crowds, with angels above in an arched

The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

Luca Cambiaso, 1581

Brown ink drawing of Galatea in a shell chariot drawn by dolphins, with cupids above and sea figures around her.

The Triumph of Galatea

Girolamo da Treviso the Younger, 1535

Pen and wash drawing of a nude saint on a gridiron over flames, with an angel descending above a crowd and a horse.

The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

Daniel Seiter, 1685

Brown ink and wash drawing of men raising a crucified figure on a cross, with a ladder, a horseman, and a crowd.

The Raising of the Cross

Brown wash drawing of a kneeling friar holding the Christ child, with putti and clouds above in radiating light.

Saint Anthony of Padua

Hand-colored print of two women in a furnished interior, one in a feathered hat, beside a blue curtain and hatbox.

La Comparaison

Jean-François Janinet after Nicolas Lavreince, 1786

Hand-colored print of two women in an interior, one seated in white with a feathered hat, one standing in blue, with a small

L'aveu difficile (The Difficult Confession)

Jean-François Janinet after Nicolas Lavreince, 1787

Monochrome print of an abstract figure with a spiral head, central heart shape and geometric lines by Paul Klee.

Queen of Hearts (Herzdame)

Paul Klee, 1921