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National Gallery of Art

25,761 works

Pen and ink drawing of a young woman in three-quarter view wearing a jeweled headdress and a long flowing veil.

Young Woman Wearing a Scarf

Martin Schongauer

Symmetrical architectural elevation drawing of a neoclassical opera house facade flanked by colonnades and domed pavilions.

Geometrical Elevation of the Peace Plaza and Façade of the Opera House

Giacomo Quarenghi, c. 1800

Engraved plate of two deer scenes: a leaping stag labelled Bajew and a spotted small deer by water.

Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of Sout…

Various Artists, including William Blake, after John Gabriel Stedman, 1796

Engraving of an armed man with a musket and raised arm beside a skull, with small figures fighting in the distance.

Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of Sout…

Various Artists, including William Blake, after John Gabriel Stedman, 1796

Etching of ruined Roman-style arches and walls with a seated woman, cattle, sheep and a standing figure in an open landscape.

Old Woman Seated

Jean Morin after Cornelis van Poelenburch

Etching of ruined stone aqueduct arches framing a distant pine-tree landscape, with grazing animals in the foreground.

Ruins of an Aqueduct

Jean Morin after Claude Lorrain

Engraved oval portrait of an older bald man in a hood, finger raised to his lips in a gesture of silence.

Harpocrates

Jan Müller, 1593 (published after 1630)

Oval print of a nude woman reaching up to a flowering branch, with fruit at her feet and a windswept landscape behind her.

Proserpine

Hendrick Goltzius, 1588/1590

Charcoal sketch of winding garden footpaths, a pavilion, trees and a rounded hill on tan paper.

Footpaths and Pavilion in the Dresden Grosser Garten

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, c. 1909

Red chalk drawing of an arched bower of foliage with reclining figures, cherubs, and rococo ornament framing the scene.

The Bower

Jean-Antoine Watteau, c. 1716

Pen and brown ink drawing of God the Father pointing with an outstretched arm, surrounded by angels and putti.

God the Father in Glory

Attributed to Andrea Boscoli after Michelangelo

Brown wash drawing of a helmeted Pallas flanked by two armored male statues on pedestals under classical arches.

Rudolf I and Albert I with Pallas

Peter Paul Rubens and Theodoor van Thulden, in or after 1635

Pen and ink sketch of two draftsmen sketching at a table under a parasol, with two seated figures beside them.

Draftsmen Outdoors

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, c. 1760

Red chalk drawing of a seated woman in a bonnet and ruffled dress, sewing with her head bent over her work.

Seated Woman Sewing

Louis Rolland Trinquesse, 1788

Pale drawing of white chalk cliffs along a shore with small figures on the sand and a distant sail on the sea.

Scene on the South Coast of England

Unknown artist, 19th century

Graphite and wash drawing of a large reclining nude with dark hair, flanked by smaller sketches of dancing figures.

Studies of Nude Dancers

Odilon Roche, 1918/1947

Woman in Court Dress

Grey wash drawing in a circle of an elderly bearded saint with a halo, holding an open book and a quill pen.

Saint Matthew

Jacob de Gheyn II, c. 1585/1590

Engraving of a crowded Renaissance banquet with elegantly dressed guests, servants pouring wine, and Latin verses below.

Banquet at the House of Tarquinius Collatinus

Hendrick Goltzius, c. 1578

Brown ink drawing of a bearded old man in a library gesturing as nude putti reach toward him.

Putti Testing a Man's Perception of Depth

Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1613

Engraved print of two haloed saints, Constantine and Elena, flanking a jeweled cross under sun and moon.

Saint Constantine and Saint Elena

Bulgarian 19th Century

Lithograph of a rider on a dark horse with a standing attendant holding the bridle, in turbans and robes.

Arab Mounting

Théodore Chassériau, 1849

Circular drawing of a wilderness lake with a glowing sun, a white cross on a rise, and a kneeling figure by the water.

The Cross in the Wilderness

Thomas Cole, c. 1844

Pen-and-ink portrait sketch of a stern man in a fur cap, with faint pencil studies of figures in a boat below.

Studies for "Washington Crossing the Delaware" [recto]

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1849

Graphite sketch of a young man with tousled hair writing with a quill pen at a desk beside an inkwell.

Shepard Alonzo Mount, Age Twenty-Three [recto]

William Sidney Mount, 1827

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a nude bather seen from behind on a beach, with blue sea and a sail in the background.

Bather on the Beach

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1912/1913

Print of a radiant figure in clouds above startled, armed men falling to the ground in a hilly landscape.

The Conversion of Saint Paul

Master G.G.N. after Luca Cambiaso, c. 1600

Pen and ink drawing of Saint Nicholas as a seated bishop with mitre, crosier, book and radiating halo.

Saint Nicholas

Pencil sketch of rocky outcrops, boulders, shrubs and reflective water along a lakeshore with distant hills.

Rocks Along a Lakeshore [recto]

John William Casilear

Pencil sketch of a wooden bridge over a rocky stream with mountains behind, plus a rocky outcrop study below.

Bridge over Rocky Stream [top verso]

John William Casilear