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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Painting of a white mansion on a hill above a river with sailboats, framed by trees and a couple in period dress.

Mount Vernon

George Ropes, 1806

Landscape painting of a ruined abbey by a winding river, with a distant town on hills under a pale sky.

Cuitt the Younger, George

George Cuitt the Younger, 1821

Small oil sketch of a Venetian canal with a bell tower, arched stone bridge, moored gondola and cloudy blue sky.

The Church of San Trovaso, Venice

Jules-Romain Joyant, 1830

Painted view of a Venetian canal with boats and a domed classical facade under a cloudy sky.

The Scuola di San Marco, Venice

Jules-Romain Joyant, 1830

Painting of a schooner with a striped flag sailing near a square-rigged warship with an American flag on rough sea.

Capture of the "Savannah" by the "U.S.S. Perry"

Fritz Müller, 1861

Winter painting of people skating and playing hockey on a frozen pond, with a sleigh, stone houses and snowy mountains behind

Skating Scene

John Toole, 1835

Two girls in pink and yellow dresses stand with flowers, a toy lamb on wheels, and a basket of blossoms.

The Burnish Sisters

William Matthew Prior, 1854

Painting of a church with clock tower engulfed in flames at night, with a crowd of silhouetted onlookers and an American flag

Burning of Old South Church, Bath, Maine

John Hilling, 1854

Painting of two young children in white and blue dresses seated before red drapes, one holding a rattle, with a rose garden a

The Herbert Children

Lambert Sachs, 1857

Painting of a rural crowd in period dress scutching flax beside log cabins, a stone chimney, and a haystack.

Flax Scutching Bee

Linton Park, 1885

Painting of figures gathered by a riverbank beside a carriage, with a fallen figure, sailboats on the water, and a large tree

The Exhumation

Linton Park, 1890

Painting of a polar bear attacking a seal on ice floes, with a sailing ship and icebergs in the distance.

Law of the Wild

Charles S. Raleigh, 1881

Naive painting of two horses and four cows beside a gray barn, with a white house with green shutters behind a fence.

The Barnyard

Amzi Emmons Zeliff, 1850

Painting of a wounded woman reclining in red silk, supported by an older man, with a young hunter and bow beside her.

Silvio with the Wounded Dorinda

Two fishermen haul a net on a riverbank beside a boat, with a town skyline and spires under a cloudy sky.

Hauling the Net, with a View of Zwolle

Dirk Hardenstein, 1663

Painting of a man in a top hat driving a chestnut trotting horse in a two-wheeled sulky on a racetrack.

The Trotter

Charles S. Humphreys, 1860

Painting of a bay horse pulling a red racing sulky driven by a man in a checked cap on a dirt track.

Budd Doble Driving Goldsmith Maid at Belmont Driving Park

Charles S. Humphreys, 1876

Naive painting of two uniformed officers seated on a log beside a log cabin and palisade fence, with tall trees.

Marion Feasting the British Officer on Sweet Potatoes

George Washington Mark, 1848

Two girls in matching red dresses stand before dark trees, with a small house and pink sky in the distance.

Sisters in Red

Sturtevant J. Hamblin, 1840

Painting of three children: a boy in a dark suit and two girls in matching blue dresses with white lace trim.

The Younger Generation

Sturtevant J. Hamblin, 1850

Painted panorama of the Berks County Almshouse with surrounding farmland, cattle, carriages, and smaller vignettes of outbuil

Berks County Almshouse, 1878

Charles C. Hofmann, 1878

Painted bird's-eye view of the Berks County Almshouse with brick buildings, gardens, grazing cows, and smaller framed scenes.

Berks County Almshouse, 1895

Louis Mader, 1895

Painting of a galloping bay horse in a field, with a steam locomotive and train passing in the distance under cloudy skies.

The Neigh of an Iron Horse

Joseph Anderson Faris, 1860

Still life painting of red cherries in a wooden bowl and spilled on a reflective table against an olive background.

Red Cherries

Robert Spear Dunning, 1866

Painting of a large American frigate under full sail on rough green seas, with a distant naval engagement and smoke on the ho

The United States Frigate "President" Engaging the British Squadron, 1815

Fitz Henry Lane, 1850

Abstract painting of flat red, blue, green, ochre and brown shapes with jagged wedges and wavy edges, with small speckled dot

Space Divided by Line Motive

Arthur Dove, 1943

Pencil elevation drawing of a paneled interior wall with an arched fresco, carved medallion and ornate wainscot, 1896.

Perugino's Udienza del Cambio in the Collegio del Cambio, Perugia

John Russell Pope, 1896

Engraving of nude figures on a tiled stage, with a piping satyr, blindfolded women, a crowned seated figure and winged putti.

Virtus Combusta: An Allegory of Virtue

Workshop of Andrea Mantegna, 1500/1505

Engraving of nude revelers and satyrs around a wine vat under a grapevine, with sleeping putti on the ground.

Bacchanal with a Wine Vat

Andrea Mantegna, before 1481

Pencil architectural elevation of the Palazzo Pollini facade in Siena with window rows, moldings and dimension notes.

Palazzo Pollini, Siena, Attributed to Peruzzi

John Russell Pope, 1896