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National Gallery of Art

25,761 works

Fragment of a German playing card with acorn motifs, crowned lions, and a seated figure in a grid of compartments.

Playing Card

Unknown artist

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Holy Family with the Virgin and infant Christ, a bearded man, and an angel above.

Holy Family

Unknown artist, 17th century

Tonal print of a small hunter with a dog crossing a field toward tall poplar trees at dusk.

Le Petit Chasseur (Little Hunter)

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1892

Etching of fashionable people strolling beneath tall trees in a Berlin park, with a statue, tents, and a carriage.

Premiere promenade de Berlin

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1772

Engraving of the goddess Diana drawing back a curtain while a woman with raised arms and a bearded priest stand before a pede

Diana

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1787

Etching with two scenes: winged figures hanging from ropes above, and an armored warrior, rearing horse and woman with child

Idris

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1789

F.E. von Rochow

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1777

Engraving of knights in armor fighting on horseback in a battle, with a double-headed eagle banner and fallen soldiers below.

Rudolph of Hapsburg

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1783

Etching of a crowded timber-beamed room with a man pouring a drink for a seated older woman in a white cap.

A Welcome Guest

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1777/1791

Pencil sketch of the riverside town of Boppart with church spires, a fortified wall, a tall tower, and hills behind.

Boppart

John William Casilear, 1842

Pencil drawing of Seville's waterfront with sailing boats, a rowing boat, a distant tower and birds in a pale sky.

Seville

Samuel Colman, 1850

Charcoal drawing of two large trees with spreading branches and a small standing figure in an open landscape.

Woman Standing beneath Two Trees

William Morris Hunt, c. 1877

Pencil sketch of tall trees in an open field with wooded hills on the right, under a pale sky.

Stowe, Vermont

Aaron Draper Shattuck, 1858

Grey wash title vignette with bust, easel, telescope and drafting tools, above a scroll reading Sketch-Book of J.E. Shadek.

J.E. Shadek Sketchbook

J.E. Shadek, 1861/1862

Black line landscape print on blue paper showing a village church with a spire, tall trees, a stone bridge and distant hills.

Landscape with a Village Church

Augustin Hirschvogel, 1545

Pastel portrait of a seated young girl with blue eyes in a blue dress, holding a small book on a red stool.

Portrait of a Girl with Blue Eyes and Blue Dress

B. Doyle, c. 1820

Pastel portrait of a young man in a blue coat and white cravat, holding a wooden folding rule against a brown background.

Young Man with Folding Rule

Unknown artist, c. 1815

Pastel portrait of a young man with dark hair in a black coat and white cravat, holding a music sheet.

George Edward Blake

Unknown artist, c. 1808

Pastel portrait of a seated woman in a pink dress holding a baby in a white bonnet, with an older child looking up beside her

Anna Margaret Blake and Her Two Children

Unknown artist, c. 1808

Bust-length portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat holding a red book against a grey-green background.

Portrait of a Man Holding a Book

Micah Williams, c. 1823

Portrait of a seated woman in a black dress and white lace bonnet holding a small red book, against a green background.

Portrait of a Woman with a Lace Cap

Micah Williams, c. 1823

Pastel portrait of a young girl in a white dress and bonnet holding a white dog on her lap, seated in a chair.

Child with Pet Dog

Micah Williams, c. 1825

Two Grotesque Heads

Francesco Melzi after Leonardo da Vinci, 1510s?

Engraving of a goatherd playing a pipe beside goats resting near a rocky outcrop and trees, on blue-tinted paper.

Goatherd Piping to Four Goats

Francesco Londonio

Crayon portrait of an elderly woman in a white bonnet and lace collar, drawn on tan paper with a dark vignette background.

Portrait of an Old Woman

Eastman Johnson, early 1840s

Etched landscape with large trees, a waterfall over rocks, two small figures on a knoll, and a distant town.

Landscape with Tobias and the Angel

Anthonie Waterloo

Engraved landscape of tall trees, rocks, and a horse-drawn wagon with two figures on a path beside water.

Landscape with Wagon

John Browne after Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Pencil and white chalk drawing of a rocky wooded cliff above a calm river with distant mountains and sailboats.

Hudson Highlands

John William Casilear, 1860s

Pencil and chalk drawing of Doric temple columns at left, an olive tree, and a hilltop town across a valley.

Temple of Juno, Agrigentum

Thomas Cole, 1842

Brown wash drawing of tall cypress trees framing a stone staircase leading to a villa with a church spire behind.

Villa d'Este, Tivoli

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1848