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National Gallery of Art

25,761 works

Daumier lithograph of an artist with palette and cane talking to a gentleman who holds a boy with a rolled paper in a studio.

V'la mon petit... s'il n'a pas assez de moyens...

Honoré Daumier, 1850

Lithograph of a seated woman under a tree talking to a woman bathing in a river, with a distant landscape.

L'Eau est délicieuse... je t'assure...

Honoré Daumier, 1845

Engraving of Apollo playing a lyre beside a kneeling figure, with a bound nude satyr tied to a tree at left.

Apollo and Marsyas

Master of the Die after Raphael, 1530s

Engraving of haloed Saint Roch standing by a tree with a dog, an angel on a cloud above, and a town in the distance.

Saint Roch

Master of the Die after Follower of Raphael

Engraving of an aged bearded wanderer with a staff in a rainy night landscape, beside a crucified Christ on a cross.

Le Juif Errant

Georges Rouget after Gustave Doré, c. 1856

Engraving of biblical figures among stone ruins under a tree, with dogs in the foreground and a distant landscape.

Esurientes pascere

Sébastien Bourdon, 1665/1670

Engraving of thirsty men crowding a stone well with water jars, mounted soldiers and classical buildings behind them.

Potare sitientes

Sébastien Bourdon, 1665/1670

Engraving of servants washing a seated woman's feet in a courtyard while a bearded man and traveler stand nearby.

Hospitio exipere advenas

Sébastien Bourdon, 1665/1670

Engraving of a crowd of ragged figures reaching toward robed men on a raised platform, with scattered clothing and a dog in t

Vestine nudos

Sébastien Bourdon, 1665/1670

Engraving of an angel above sick people being tended on stone platforms, with a walled city and trees behind.

Aegros Curare

Sébastien Bourdon, 1665/1670

Engraving of a seated ruler freeing chained captives before a burning city, with soldiers, a horse statue and fallen columns.

Liberare Captivos

Sébastien Bourdon, 1665/1670

Engraving of mourners burying the dead before classical ruins, with an obelisk and horsemen in the background.

Sepelire mortuos

Sébastien Bourdon, 1665/1670

Etched landscape with hills, towns, and a figure carrying a head, with a chariot in the clouds above.

Mercury with the Head of Argus in His Hand

Hieronymus Cock, 1558

Etching of overgrown Roman ruins with brick arches, towers and scattered rubble under a cloudy sky.

Ruins on the Palatine with the Septizonium

Hieronymus Cock, 1550

Engraving of the Annunciation: an angel on a cloud offers a lily branch to the Virgin Mary in an interior.

The Annunciation

after Mario Arconio Francesco Villamena, 1598

Pen and wash drawing of the Virgin standing on clouds with angels kneeling below and cherubs around her.

The Virgin in Glory

Abraham Bloemaert

Red chalk and wash drawing of classical ruins with a tomb inscription, stone arch, urn on column, and large tree.

Grottesco with the Tomb of Nero

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1747

Charcoal study of a woman with one arm raised behind her head, draped fabric across her torso, on tan paper.

Study of a Woman

Adolph Menzel, c. 1875/1890

Watercolor of a grassy rocky landscape with cliffs, boulders, grazing sheep, a stone structure and a hazy sky.

Paradise, Newport

William Trost Richards, 1877

Brown wash drawing of the Holy Family resting with a donkey, an angel in the trees, and a distant town.

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Guercino, c. 1626

Pen and ink drawing of a traveller with a staff near a wooden footbridge, trees, and a distant church tower.

Country Footbridge (The Traveller)

Paul Sandby Munn, c. 1810

Sketch of four boys in hats seated on sand, with a wooden pier and a moored boat in the background.

Four Boys on a Beach

Winslow Homer, 1873

Solitude: Miss Vesta Rollinstall

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1878

Pencil drawing of a young woman with a veil in a circular vignette on cream paper.

Young Woman's Head

Esther Frances Alexander, 1860s?

Pen and wash drawing of a kneeling veiled woman reaching toward three standing robed figures beneath a stormy sky.

Composition with Four Figures [recto and verso]

Attributed to Washington Allston, c. 1805

Sepia wash landscape of Gowanus Heights with trees, a stone house, a path with two figures, and distant ships on the bay.

Gowanus Heights, Brooklyn

William Henry Bartlett, c. 1836/1837

Pencil sketch of a kneeling man supporting a fallen companion while pointing forward, on pale paper.

The Death of General Warren

George Caleb Bingham

Francois

Charles J. Bridgman, 1872

Brown ink drawing of four putti, one painting at an easel on a cloud and another drawing at a board, with a reclining figure

Allegory: Four Putti

Mather Brown, 1780/1790

Pencil sketch sheet with studies of playful putti curling around large scroll forms, with a handwritten Florence 1840 note.

Banknote Studies [recto]

John William Casilear, 1840