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National Gallery of Art

5,752 works

Brown ink and wash drawing of a turbaned man greeting three winged angels seated at a table beneath a tree.

Abraham Entertaining the Angels

Jan Tengnagel, 1610

Pen and wash drawing of the Virgin and Child on clouds above two seated female saints in an arched frame.

The Virgin and Child Adored by Saint Catherine and Another Female Saint

Pietro Damini, 1620

Pen and ink landscape with a river, wooden bridge, village houses, rocky mountains and a ruined castle on a hilltop.

River Landscape

Tobias Verhaecht

Pen and gray wash drawing of a crowd of women, men and children gathered around a wooden cart in a street market scene.

Market Scene

Anton Wachsmann, 1800

Watercolor panorama of a river bend and city below a terrace where men sit, one painting under a pink parasol.

View of Paris from the Terrace of the Pavillon de Brimborion

Carle Vernet, 1810

Red chalk drawing of a fashionable woman in a striped gown and feathered bonnet standing beside a stone balustrade in a park.

A Fashionable Woman Standing in a Park

Carle Vernet, 1798

Pen and ink architectural sketches of arches, staircases and colonnades on aged paper.

Designs for Palatial Staircases [recto]

Lorenzo Sacchetti, 1800

Pen and brown wash drawing of a symmetrical vaulted hall with arches, columns, hanging lamps and a stone balustrade.

Design for a Vaulted Hall

Lorenzo Sacchetti

Pen and ink drawing of a standing man in a shirt and bow tie holding a paintbrush and palette against hatched shading.

Portrait of Whistler with a Paintbrush

Harper Pennington

Graphite and gray wash drawing of a young woman with a spear gazing upward in a forest beside a resting dog and sheep.

Joan of Arc Hearing the Voices

Luc-Olivier Merson, 1895

Pencil and white chalk drawing of a standing female nude with one hand on her hip, on brown paper.

Standing Nude

Max Klinger, 1914

Ink and wash drawing of a nude man standing in water with arms raised toward a cloudy sky, trees on the horizon.

Und Doch!

Max Klinger, 1883

Ink study on grey paper of screwpine plants with arching leaves, with smaller detail sketches and handwritten notes.

Studies of Screwpines from Madagascar

Max Seliger, 1887

Pencil sketch of a bearded old man seated against a tree holding a rifle, with a hat beside him, titled Rip Van Winkle.

Rip Van Winkle

Asher Brown Durand, 1840

Pencil portrait sketch of a man with curly hair, high collar and buttoned coat, signed A.B. Durand, 1830.

Commodore John Barry

Asher Brown Durand, 1830

Drawing of a crowned saint cooking wafers at a stove while two youths press wine in a stone room.

Saint Wenzel Cooking Hosts as Two Youths Press Wine

Eduard von Steinle, 1866

Graphite sketch of a beached sailing boat and small rowboat on a sandy shore with dune grass and a distant horizon.

St. Valery sur somme

Pencil sketch of a sailing ship's rigging with men repairing a boom above the deck and the curved bow below.

Men Repairing the Boom

Watercolor of fishing boats tossed by rough waves under stormy clouds, with a distant headland on the left.

Fishing Boats Tossed before a Storm

Eugène Isabey, 1840

Graphite sketch sheet with figures on a beach, sailing boats, rocks, and harbor buildings in loose studies.

Seaside Studies

Eugène Isabey, 1830

Watercolor sketch of sailboats with white sails moored in a harbor beside a pale building with a red roof.

Sailboats in a Sunlit Harbor (recto)

Eugène Isabey, 1830

Pencil sketch of a coast road beside tall cliffs, with a lamppost, small figures, a rowboat, and posts in the water.

A Coast Road with Cliffs in the North of France

Eugène Isabey, 1830

Pen and ink drawing of a river with tall sailing ships, a windmill, a town skyline, and figures on the left bank.

Dutch View

Sepia drawing of a turreted castle above a wooded lake, with tall pines, rocks and misty mountains behind.

Alpine Castle above a Wooded Lake

Maxime Lalanne, 1870

Monochrome drawing of white chalk cliffs above a curving shore, with two sailboats on rough sea under billowing clouds.

Cliffs along the Normandy Coast

Pencil sketch of a flat landscape with tall trees on the right, a distant village, and a wide open sky.

Trouville-sur-Mer

Randolph Caldecott, 1879

Aged parchment manuscript page with two columns of black Latin script and red initials and headings.

Four Scenes from the First Book of Samuel

Unknown artist, late 11th century

Medieval manuscript page with green-washed interlace ornament and two fantastical animals, one scaled and winged, one shaggy.

Saint John Dictating to the Venerable Bede

Unknown artist, c. 1140

Medieval manuscript page with musical notation and an illuminated initial showing Christ being flagellated beside two torment

The Flagellation

Follower of Master of the Golden Bull, 1400/1405

Illuminated page showing the crowned Virgin and Christ in a gold mandorla, with the Trinity above and rows of saints around.

Coronation of the Virgin with the Trinity and Saints

Olivetan Master, c. 1440