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National Gallery of Art

25,760 works

Painting of flowers in a dark bowl on a window ledge, with white drapery and a blurred garden view beyond.

Flowers on a Window Ledge

John La Farge, 1861

Night landscape with a moonlit canal, arched stone bridge, distant town with church tower, and tall trees under dark clouds.

Moonlit Landscape with Bridge

Aert van der Neer, 1648

Oil painting of an old man gesturing to a seated couple in rich robes beside a donkey, dog, and ruins under a pink sky.

The Levite at Gibeah

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, 1640

Oil portrait of an elderly woman in a white bonnet, black dress and lace collar against a brown background.

Portrait of an Old Woman

Maerten de Vos, 1556

Painting of a splintered fallen tree trunk with torn bark lying across a dim forest floor with ferns and twigs.

Fallen Tree

Alexandre Calame, 1839

Painting of patchwork fields on rolling hills with a blue mountain range and calm lake under a pale sky.

Swiss Landscape

Alexandre Calame, 1830

Night view of an elevated railway curving past lit buildings toward a distant pink-lit city skyline under a purple sky.

The City from Greenwich Village

John Sloan, 1922

Painting of diners at a café table under a striped awning, with a woman carrying fruit and a bearded man smoking.

Yeats at Petitpas

John Sloan, 1910

Painting of a sailboat in a calm bay with breaking waves on rocks, rocky headlands, and a warm hazy sky.

Rio de Janeiro Bay

Martin Johnson Heade, 1864

Painting of a windswept dirt road past a leaning bare tree, broken wooden gate, and dune under a cloudy sky.

Landscape with Open Gate

Pieter de Molijn, 1630

Painting of villagers and a rider halting outside a rustic inn beside a dirt road, with a church tower in the distance.

The Halt at the Inn

Isaac van Ostade, 1645

Portrait of a young man in spectacles resting his hand on a terracotta pot with a flowering red geranium.

Rubens Peale with a Geranium

Rembrandt Peale, 1801

Portrait of an older man with wavy hair in a tan coat, holding a quill over paper at a desk, against a dark background.

Timothy Matlack

Rembrandt Peale, 1802

Oil portrait of an elderly man with curly gray hair, black cravat and dark coat against a brown background.

Thomas Sully

Rembrandt Peale, 1859

Oval portrait of an older man with white hair in a dark blue military coat with gold epaulettes and yellow collar.

George Washington

Rembrandt Peale, 1850

Vanitas still life with a skull, roses, hourglass, butterflies and soap bubbles on a stone ledge against a dark background.

Vanitas Still Life

Jan van Kessel the Elder, 1665

Painting of the Virgin Mary ascending to heaven on clouds, borne by angels, while apostles gaze up beside a stone tomb.

The Assumption of the Virgin

Juan de Valdés Leal, 1659

Still life painting of two pears, a knife on a gilt-edged plate, a bottle and two wine glasses on a white cloth.

Two Pears on a Tabletop

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1866

Painting of the Parthenon's columns and fallen marble blocks, with a small figure, a blue sea, and distant mountains under a

Ruins of the Parthenon

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1880

Painting of a hazy golden plain with a dirt road, travelers, a white tent, and a town with minarets under the sun.

Siout, Egypt

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1874

Painting of the Virgin in a green mantle with hands clasped beside a sleeping infant, with a landscape behind.

Madonna Adoring the Child

Marco Basaiti, 1520

Painting of two men pulling a sled with a sap barrel and a boy riding on it through a snowy maple forest.

On Their Way to Camp

Eastman Johnson, 1873

Woman in brown dress leaning over a log to pick white water lilies in a pond, with her reflection on the water.

Gathering Lilies

Eastman Johnson, 1865

Painting of an elderly man reading a newspaper beside a child in blue, with a knitting woman by a marble fireplace.

The Brown Family

Eastman Johnson, 1869

Woman in dark dress and red-trimmed bonnet stands in a coastal field with grazing sheep and the sea behind her.

Lambs, Nantucket

Eastman Johnson, 1874

Oil portrait of a bearded older man in a dark coat and white collar, gazing to the side against a dark background.

Joseph Wesley Harper, Jr.

Eastman Johnson, 1885

Night landscape with moonlight over a river, two bathing nude women, and an armored rider on horseback beside a large twisted

Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1888

Painting of a man mending a harness beside a white horse and cart on a dirt road under a golden sky.

Mending the Harness

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1870

Seated soldier in a dim interior smoking a long pipe, with a table of cards and a jug and armor nearby.

A Soldier Smoking a Pipe

Frans van Mieris the Elder, 1657

Painting of the Seine at dusk with a bridge, silhouetted towers, a moored barge, and a figure on the riverbank.

The Seine

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1902

Painting of a thatched cottage with a robed shepherd and sheep in front, under a leaning tree in hazy ochre and green tones.

The Good Shepherd

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1918

Still life painting of apples, a pear, grapes and assorted nuts arranged on a pale tabletop against a dark background.

Still Life with Fruit and Nuts

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1848

Still life of a hanging bouquet with roses, tulips, anemones and a blue ribbon against a dark background.

A Hanging Bouquet of Flowers

Abraham Mignon, 1665

Dark still life painting of fruit in a basket, fish, a frog, a lizard, perched birds and a nest with eggs.

Still Life with Fruit, Fish, and a Nest

Abraham Mignon, 1675

Painted landscape with a river, rapids, a ruined tower on a cliff, tall trees, and snowy mountains in haze.

Fanciful Landscape

Thomas Doughty, 1834

Painting of a snowy mountain at dusk with golden sunlight on its peak, dark pines in the foreground, and pale blue sky.

Mount Monadnock

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1911

Crowd of figures, animals and jugs gathered at water flowing from a rock in a wooded landscape, after Joachim Wtewael's 1624

Moses Striking the Rock

Joachim Wtewael, 1624

Painting of whitewashed village houses with red roofs above green fields, distant trees, a pale moon in a twilight sky.

Midsummer Twilight

Willard Metcalf, 1890

Painting of the Madonna in a blue mantle holding a nude infant Christ against a rocky landscape with clouds.

Madonna and Child

Bartolomeo Montagna, 1490

Painting of two women reclining on a rug in an arched terrace, a lute player beside them, with a blue sea view behind.

Favorite of the Emir

Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, 1879

Cubist painting of a seated musician with a violin, fragmented into grey and blue planes beside a piano and sheet music.

The Musician

Louis Marcoussis, 1914

Oil portrait of a woman in a dark dress and white collar against a warm red and yellow background.

Madame Cahen

Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, 1869

The Open Window

Frank Weston Benson, 1917

Seated woman in a white dress with puffed sleeves on a wooden chair against a dark background, by Frank Weston Benson.

Portrait in White

Frank Weston Benson, 1889

Painting of a red-haired woman in a white dress seated on a grassy slope overlooking a turquoise sea.

Margaret ("Gretchen") Strong

Frank Weston Benson, 1909

Oil portrait of a young woman in a wide white straw hat and white blouse, lit against a dark background, holding a pocket wat

My Daughter

Frank Weston Benson, 1912

Autumn landscape with red and gold trees framing a river, a sunburst over the water, and distant hills and town.

Autumn--On the Hudson River

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1860

Painting of a castle on a rocky hill under a red sunset and dark storm clouds, with horsemen near a stone gate.

The Spirit of War

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1851

Painting of a sunlit medieval castle beyond trees, reflected in a calm river with swans and a stone bridge.

Warwick Castle, England

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1857

Painting of Christ carrying the cross past a stone building, with a mounted soldier, a crowd, and a distant landscape.

Christ Carrying the Cross

Cornelius van Poelenburgh, 1620

Painting of a bearded prophet in red robes with a kneeling woman and child among Roman ruins under a cloudy sky.

The Prophet Elijah and the Widow of Zarephath

Cornelius van Poelenburgh, 1630

Loose painted village by a water's edge, with a church spire and rooftops in muted ochre, yellow and violet tones.

Village at the Water's Edge

Roger de La Fresnaye, 1910

Cubist-style painting of nude bathers and a standing shirtless man beneath a tree and cloudy blue sky.

The Bathers

Roger de La Fresnaye, 1912

Oil portrait of a woman in a dark dress with a large white lace ruff, pearl necklace and lace cuffs against a dark background

Portrait of a Lady with a Ruff

Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, 1638

Painting of a satyr with ivy wreath reaching toward an infant held by a woman, beside a seated peasant man at a table.

The Satyr and the Peasant

Johann Liss, 1623

Painting of a shaded park with children playing, seated women in period dress, tall trees, and a brick building behind a fenc

Luxembourg Gardens

William Glackens, 1906

Painting of three women and a child in an elegant parlor with red curtains, patterned rug, and a vase of tulips.

Family Group

William Glackens, 1910

Misty winter stream flowing between snowy banks, bare trees and a dark evergreen, painted in soft pastel tones.

Winter Harmony

John Henry Twachtman, 1890

Memory Copy of Holbein's Erasmus

Alphonse Legros

Portrait of a Woman

Alphonse Legros, 1875

Seated woman in a pale dress with a white mask beside her, before a beige wall and a hanging scroll.

Lady with a Mask

Thomas Dewing, 1911

Lady with a Lute

Thomas Dewing, 1886

Impressionist painting of a green river valley with a winding river, stone bridge, distant town, and blue hills under a cloud

The Valley of the Seine, from the Hills of Giverny

Theodore Robinson, 1892

Painting of a white sailboat on choppy grey-blue water before a yellow lattice drawbridge and distant trees.

Drawbridge - Long Branch R. R.

Theodore Robinson, 1894