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National Gallery of Art

25,761 works

Pastel drawing of a sleeping reclining nude woman on a white pillow against a pink and blue background.

Reclining Nude [recto]

Paul Gauguin, 1894/1895

Ink sketch of an armored warrior on a rearing horse, arm raised, on toned paper.

Warrior in Renaissance Armor on a Rearing Horse

Workshop of Peter Vischer the Younger, c. 1530/1540

Figure Costumed as Hercules

Unknown artist, c. 1539

Watercolor of a ruined Gothic church interior with open vaults, rubble, and workers among debris below.

The Ruins of Saint Nicolai Church in Hamburg

Martin Gensler, 1871

Pencil and watercolor studies of trees with autumn-colored foliage in yellow, orange and green on a pale sheet.

Studies of Trees

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1886

Pen and brown wash drawing of draped classical figures, a helmeted warrior, and a kneeling woman beside architecture.

Coriolanus before the Women of Rome

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, late 1780s

Watercolor design of a moonlit arcaded courtyard with statues and elegantly dressed figures strolling beneath trees.

A Design for Illuminations to Celebrate the Birthday of King George III

after Giovanni Battista Cipriani Robert Adam, 1763

Oval chalk portrait of a seated woman with tall powdered hair, white dress and red sash, by John Hoppner.

Miss Frances Beresford

John Hoppner, c. 1784/1785

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a woman with an orange headband leaning on her arm, her draped dress rendered in loose outli

Dancer (Die Tänzerin)

Egon Schiele, 1913

Pen and grey wash drawing of two bearded prophets with a winged angel pointing upward behind them.

The Prophets Hosea and Jonah

Louis-Felix de La Rue after Raphael

Etching of two reclining cows, a woman leaning against a tree with a dog, and grazing cattle on a distant hill.

Two Cows and a Woman Lying Down

Jean-Louis Demarne

Red chalk drawing of tall cypress trees in an Italian park with small figures, a statue, and a stone balustrade.

A Stand of Cypresses in an Italian Park

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1760

Hand-colored woodcut of a crowned, haloed enthroned figure with cherubs, wild men, and Latin scrolls, from the 1493 Nuremberg

Liber Chronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle)

Hartmann Schedel, Michel Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff,and Albrecht Durer, 1493

Muted watercolor of sailboats on grey sea under cloudy sky, with figures on a sandy beach in the foreground.

Violet [Note?]...The Return of the Fishing Boats

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1885

Watercolor sketch of a sandy beach with figures, a tent, beach huts and a distant steamship on the horizon.

Beach Scene

James McNeill Whistler, probably 1885

Watercolor of a brick shop front with arched doorways, a paned window, and two children with a dog on a sunlit street.

Village Shop, Chelsea

James McNeill Whistler, 1883/1884

Study in Black and Gold (Madge O'Donoghue)

James McNeill Whistler, 1883/1884

Pen and ink landscape drawing with a hilltop castle, rocky cliffs, large trees, small figures, and clouds.

Landscape with the Baptism of Christ

Attributed to Pieter Cornelisz Kunst, c. 1530

Printed title page of Vasari's 1568 Life of Michelangelo, with an ornate woodcut border and a Florence cityscape.

Vita de' gran Michelagnolo Buonarroti

Giorgio Vasari, published 1568

Brown ink drawing of townspeople skating and playing on a frozen canal beside gabled houses and a castle tower in winter.

Winter Landscape with Skaters

Hans Bol, c. 1584/1586

Red and black chalk sketch of a crowd of figures supporting a reclining nude man in a procession.

The March of Silenus [recto]

Jean-Antoine Watteau, c. 1715/1716

Engraved prison scene of seated women in dark dresses and lace caps, a standing servant, and two men conversing at a desk.

La malheureuse famille Calas (The Unfortunate Calas Family)

Jean-Baptiste Delafosse, after Louis de Carrogis, called Carmontelle, c. 1765

Brown ink and wash sketch of a standing young man with one arm extended, drawn with loose hatched strokes on pale paper.

A Young Man with a Staff

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, c. 1765

Watercolor drawing of a dying man on a blue bed attended by two haloed figures beneath a rainbow arc of angel faces.

The Death of Saint Joseph

William Blake, 1803

Color lithograph of a seated female clown in a yellow ruff and black stockings, with a couple standing in the background.

Seated Clowness (La Clownesse assise)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1896

An Eagle

Titian, 1560/1565

Red chalk drawing of a heap of weathered boulders with small plants growing among the rocks on a pale sheet.

Weathered Boulders

Franz Edmund Weirotter, c. 1769

Fan-shaped painting of wildflowers and butterflies on the left, with a sandy beach, sea and cliffs on the right.

Fan with Wildflowers and Butterflies against the Norman Coast

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, c. 1875

Watercolor seascape of dark blue-green waves under a grey cloudy sky with a pale pink horizon.

Lesson Study on Jersey Coast

John La Farge, 1881

Pen and brown wash sketch of Bacchus and Ariadne with a raised-arm male figure, reclining woman, and small cherub below.

Bacchus and Ariadne

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, c. 1745