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National Gallery of Art

25,761 works

Grey wash drawing of a timber-framed cottage with a gabled roof and chimney beside a stream, with a small figure and trees.

A Cottage at Dorking in Surrey

John Sell Cotman, c. 1800/1801

Red chalk drawing of a standing male nude figure with head tilted, on warm buff paper.

Male Nude

Gian Antonio Guardi, 1750s

Red chalk drawing of a standing male nude with one arm raised overhead and head turned, on cream paper.

Male Nude

Gian Antonio Guardi, c. 1725

Tolozan de Montfort

Charles Ange Boily, 1786

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a dark coat and white collar, inscribed Anibal Caras Pictor at top.

Annibale Carracci

Unknown artist

Pen and brown ink drawing of a boy fishing on a grassy bank, with trees, hills, a rider and a distant tower.

Landscape with a Boy Fishing

Domenico Campagnola, 1516

Oval engraved portrait of a man with curly hair and cravat, inscribed Mengs below, by James Neagle.

Anton Raphael Mengs

Head of a Man

Domenico Campagnola

Pen and wash drawing of a decorative ceiling design with clouds and gods, grape foliage, classical columns and reclining figu

Illusionistic Ceiling with a Grape Arbor, Figures Poised on Galleries, and a Central Scene of Olympian Gods

Unknown artist, c. 1580/1590

Red chalk drawing of ruined vaulted arches and brick walls with small figures and a fountain, by Piranesi.

The "Canopus" of the Villa Adriana at Tivoli

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1776

Pen and ink drawing of a shepherd playing a flute and leading sheep and cattle through a rocky landscape with a distant town.

Shepherd Playing a Flute and Leading His Flock

Domenico Campagnola

Pen and gray wash drawing of a city square with an equestrian monument and arcaded palace facades under a cloudy sky.

Piazza with an Equestrian Monument and a Palace

Alessandro Sanquirico, c. 1810

Pen and grey wash drawing of a garden with stone terraces, obelisks, and weeping willows framing a fountain.

A Palatial Garden with Circular Terraces

Alessandro Sanquirico, c. 1810

Blue monochrome drawing of river rapids below wooded rock cliffs, with a wooden bridge and figures at right.

River Rapids by Wooded Cliffs

Claude Louis Châtelet, c. 1780

Brown wash drawing with red chalk of armed figures and smoke in a dark wooded setting, sketched in loose strokes.

A Young Woman Overcome by Love [recto]

Jean-Baptiste Deshays, c. 1763

Etching of classical ruins with a large arch, fallen columns, a statue on a pedestal and figures resting among the stones.

Landscape with Classical Ruins

Marco Ricci, 1720

Black and red chalk sketch of a woman with raised arm and loose studies of drapery and figure contours.

A Reclining Nude with Her Right Arm Raised over a Swift Composition Study [verso]

Jean-Baptiste Deshays, c. 1763

Etching of a Venetian church and hospital facade on a canal, with gondolas, a stone bridge and pedestrians along the quay.

Chiesa et Hospitale de Mendicanti (plate 35)

Luca Carlevarijs, 1703

Etched view of a baroque church facade with statues on top, crowds of people in a square, and a dome behind.

Facciata della Chiesa del'Ospitaletto (plate 33)

Luca Carlevarijs, 1703

Engraving of the dead Christ supported by the Virgin with a winged angel, crown of thorns at lower left.

Pietà

Agostino Carracci after Veronese, 1582

Engraving of allegorical figures, cherubs and a fleur-de-lis shield framed in a central oval scene, dated 1690.

France Crowned with Victory by Louis XIV

François-Alexandre Verdier, 1690

Black and white print of a crowded funeral procession in a city square, with clergy, a draped hearse, flags and a Gothic chur

Les Funérailles de L'Amiral Courbet

Auguste Lepère and Louis Tinayre, 1885

Engraving of a military funeral procession along a city boulevard, with cavalry, carriages and crowds on rooftops and streets

Les Honneurs militaires rendus à la Depouille mortelle de L'Amiral Courbet

Auguste Lepère and Louis Tinayre, 1885

Pen and ink drawing of a sailing ship and rowboats at a harbor with a statue, spired buildings and clouds.

Seascape

Rodolphe Bresdin

Drawing of a whimsical thatched farmhouse village with ducks and chickens by a pond under a cloudy sky.

Fantasy Farmhouse

Rodolphe Bresdin, 1853

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a fur-collared coat, set within an ornate architectural frame on a pedestal.

Paolo Caliari

Agostino Carracci

Engraving of the dead Christ supported by the Virgin Mary and an angel, with a crown of thorns on the ground.

Pietà

Agostino Carracci, 1582

Engraving of the crowned Virgin spreading her cloak over two kneeling bearded men in robes, with clouds and a halo behind her

The Madonna Protecting Two Members of a Confraternity

Agostino Carracci, 1582

Engraving of Mercury with a caduceus and the Three Graces in a wooded landscape, with Latin text below.

Mercury and the Three Graces

Agostino Carracci, 1589

Engraving of a bearded man with curly hair holding a comic theatre mask, with an inscription below.

Giovanni Gabrielli

Agostino Carracci, 1599