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National Gallery of Art

14,495 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

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

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

Memory Copy of Holbein's Erasmus

Alphonse Legros

Portrait of a Woman

Alphonse Legros, 1875

Lady with a Lute

Thomas Dewing, 1886

Oil portrait of a man in a dark suit and black bow tie, turned to the right against a brown background, 1860.

Abraham Lincoln

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1860

Oil portrait of a woman in a black dress with lace collar and yellow roses, seated before a red chair, 1876.

Roxana Atwater Wentworth

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1876