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National Gallery of Art

25,670 works

Painting of Christ driving merchants and money changers out of a colonnaded temple with a bright sky beyond the arch.

Christ Cleansing the Temple

El Greco, probably before 1570

Painting of a woman in a pink dress nursing an infant, with two playful children and an open book in the foreground.

Charity

Andrea del Sarto, before 1530

Full-length portrait of a woman in a white gown with blue puffed sleeves, holding a fan, against a beige background.

Mary Crowninshield Endicott Chamberlain (Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain)

John Singer Sargent, 1902

Painting of an elderly bearded man in pink robes reaching toward heavenly light, with an eagle and winged angels above.

Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos

Titian, c. 1553/1555

Painting of a bearded man in red armour offering bread to an elder in gold robes, with soldiers, a horse and cherubs.

The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek

Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1626

Painting of a winding park path around an oval pond, tall trees, a white obelisk, and a couple in period dress.

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Thomas Chambers, mid 19th century

Naive painting of a steamboat, sailboats, a train, and geese flying over a rocky shoreline and green hillside.

Geese in Flight

Leila T. Bauman, 1850 or later

Naive painting of a paddle steamer with smoke crossing a harbor, with a promenade, white house, and cliff tower.

U.S. Mail Boat

Leila T. Bauman, 1855 or later

Full-length portrait of a young girl in a pink dress and black apron beside a rose bush, with a cat at her feet.

Little Girl in Lavender

John Bradley, c. 1840

Half-length portrait of a man in a gold fringed cloak, red sash and white neckcloth with a cameo, against a dark background.

Red Jacket

A. Haddock, after 1828

Painting of a two-story church with a clock tower burning at night while a crowd watches and an American flag is raised.

Burning of Old South Church, Bath, Maine

John Hilling, c. 1854

Painting of villagers skating and playing hockey on a frozen pond, with a sleigh, stone houses and snowy mountains behind.

Skating Scene

John Toole, c. 1835

Painting of a calico cat with two kittens playing with pink yarn beside a red ball of yarn and white lace.

Cat and Kittens

Unknown artist, c. 1872/1883

Anonymous late 18th-century group portrait of a family with seated parents, infants, children in white and blue, and a patter

The Cheney Family

Unknown artist, c. 1795

Folk painting of a family burial ground with white headstones, figures, and a river with a steamboat and hills beyond.

Family Burying Ground

Unknown artist, c. 1840

Portrait of a woman in a green dress holding a wooden box inscribed MARTHA, with books and a river landscape behind her.

Martha

Unknown artist, c. 1835

Portrait of a woman in a lace cap holding a toddler in a white dress with a pink rose, against a brown background.

Aphia Salisbury Rich and Baby Edward

Milton W. Hopkins, c. 1833

Painting of a hillside village with about twenty-two houses, a white church steeple, picket fences, and bare trees under a cl

Twenty-two Houses and a Church

Unknown artist, mid 19th century

Naive painting of a riverside village with Victorian houses, a church, steamboat, sailboats, and a hunter on the bank.

Village by the River

Unknown artist, fourth quarter 19th century

Painting of an ochre building framed by tall trees and angular branches, with blue hills and a rocky landscape behind it.

Château Noir

Paul Cézanne, 1900/1904

Soft misty landscape painting with tall, faint trees dissolving into pale blue and pink haze over a meadow.

Morning Haze

Claude Monet, 1888

Painting of a blue and white handled vase filled with white roses and yellow flowers on a patterned tablecloth before a curta

Vase of Flowers

Paul Cézanne, 1900/1903

Landscape painting of a ruined abbey by a river, with a distant town on rolling hills and trees framing the foreground.

Easby Abbey, near Richmond

George Cuitt the Younger, c. 1821/1854

Painting of a bearded seated man in a black cap and dark jacket, hands clasped, against a green leafy background.

The Gardener Vallier

Paul Cézanne, 1906

Full-length portrait of a bearded man in black velvet costume with a feathered cape and rapier on the floor.

The Tragic Actor (Rouvière as Hamlet)

Édouard Manet, 1866

Dark-toned self-portrait of a man in a hat and dark jacket against a brown background, with one hand visible at right.

Gold and Brown: Self-Portrait

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1896-1898

Full-length portrait of a man in a dark suit holding a cane, against a muted gray and brown interior background.

George W. Vanderbilt

James McNeill Whistler, 1897/1903

Oil portrait of an elderly man in a grey coat and white wig, leaning on a stone pedestal before a dusky landscape.

Epes Sargent

John Singleton Copley, c. 1760

Portrait of two young sisters in white dresses with straw hats and pink ribbons, standing before a stone balustrade.

The Ragan Sisters

Jacob Eichholtz, 1818

Painting of a naval battle with burning ships, smoke-filled sky, crowded boats and struggling sailors in choppy water.

The Battle of La Hogue

Benjamin West, 1778