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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Oval painting of a plain at sunrise with a war party camp, grazing horses, riders, and a dramatic cloudy sky.

Bivouac of a Sioux War Party at Sunrise C16213

George Catlin, 1861

Oval painting of a tipi encampment on grassland at sunset, with grazing animals, distant hills and an orange sky.

An Indian Encampment at Sunset

George Catlin, 1861

Watercolor of a snowy street under an elevated railway, with a brown cow and pedestrians in the foreground.

A Winter Day - Under the Elevated near Brooklyn Bridge

George Bellows, 1907

Painting of helmeted soldiers restraining a bare-chested boy with a bloodied sword, a burning house and fleeing women at left

The Germans Arrive

George Bellows, 1918

Painting of two shirtless boxers fighting in a ring as a dark, crowded audience looks on from the ringside.

Club Night

George Bellows, 1907

Painting of nude boys on a wooden dock at night, some diving and swimming in dark water beside a small boat.

Forty-two Kids

George Bellows, 1907

Painting of workers beneath an iron structure beside a hazy blue waterfront city with steam and a crane.

Blue Morning

George Bellows, 1909

Painting of a brick tenement in winter with men around a fire, a tugboat on the river, and a horse cart.

The Lone Tenement

George Bellows, 1909

Painting of a busy snowy New York street with pedestrians, a horse-drawn hay wagon, a streetcar, and tall buildings with sign

New York

George Bellows, 1911

Painting of a woman in purple embracing a girl in pink beside a doll, under a green striped awning in a garden.

My Family

George Bellows, 1916

Painting of a grass tennis court with seated spectators in white clothing and parasols, tall trees, and a clubhouse beyond.

Tennis Tournament

George Bellows, 1920

Landscape with two riders on a road under large oak trees, a watermill beside a pond, and a distant church spire.

The Travelers

Meindert Hobbema

Painting of a dirt road curving through a wooded landscape under big clouds, with small figures and a distant farmhouse.

A Wooded Landscape

Meindert Hobbema, 1663

Painting of a dirt road through tall trees toward a thatched cottage, with a woman, child, dog and cloudy sky.

Hut among Trees

Meindert Hobbema, 1664

Painting of a dirt road past cottages and large oak trees, with travelers and cumulus clouds in a wide sky.

A View on a High Road

Meindert Hobbema, 1665

Painting of a village with a church spire beyond a pool, large trees, a horseback rider with dogs, and a cloudy sky.

Village near a Pool

Meindert Hobbema, 1670

Painting of a man in a red coat with a horse under a large oak, two women in silk dresses, and a river landscape.

Captain Samuel Sharpe Pocklington with His Wife, Pleasance, and possibly His Sister, Frances

George Stubbs, 1769

Painting of women and men harvesting grain in a field, with a woman in white sieving seed in the foreground.

Harvesting Rapeseed

Jules Breton, 1860

Reclining nude woman in a veil beside a lake, with a hilltop town and rocky mountains in the background.

Venus

Bernardino Luini, 1530

Painting of a roaring lion guarding its prey beside a snake in a dark forest clearing.

Lion Defending its Prey

Edwin Landseer, 1840

Still life painting of a peacock pie, roast chicken, peaches, a pewter jug and lemon on a white draped table.

Still Life with a Peacock Pie

Pieter Claesz, 1627

Saint Cecilia plays a portable organ while an angel with wings holds a sheet of music beside her in a dark setting.

Saint Cecilia with an Angel

Orazio Gentileschi, 1618

Painting of a sunlit Venetian canal with moored boats, gondolas, palazzo facades, a distant bridge and bell tower.

The Grand Canal

Richard Parkes Bonington, 1826

Three-scene painted panel of the Virgin's presentation, marriage, and the Annunciation in classical architectural settings.

The Presentation and Marriage of the Virgin, and the Annunciation

Benedetto Rusconi, 1520

Pointillist painting of a rocky coast with rowboats on the shore, calm blue water and distant mountains under a pale sky.

Coast near Antibes

Henri-Edmond Cross, 1891

Sleeping nymphs in a dark wooded landscape, surrounded by playful cupids with arrows and a pair of dogs.

Cupids Disarming Sleeping Nymphs

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, 1690

Woman in pink dress fainting onto cushions, attended by figures in blue and yellow with an older man in a green-walled room.

The Faint

Pietro Longhi, 1744

Painting of a blindfolded player with a stick beside a pot, watched by elegantly dressed figures in a green-walled room.

The Game of the Cooking Pot

Pietro Longhi, 1744

Still life painting of grapes, figs, and dead game birds on a red tablecloth against a dark background.

Still Life with Grapes and Game

Frans Snyders, 1630

Painting of an old stone bridge with a ruined tower, women washing laundry by the river, and a man with a rifle.

The Old Bridge

Hubert Robert, 1775