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National Gallery of Art

25,761 works

Engraving of the Holy Family: Mary seated with the sleeping Christ Child, and an elderly Joseph beside her.

The Holy Family

Agostino Carracci, 1597

Art Nouveau poster print with a flowing female figure, a bearded man, twisting branches, and cast list text in a decorative b

La Cloche engloutie

Paul Ranson, 1897

Embossed cream sheet showing a faint nude figure with raised arms above a horizontal line, by Alexandre Charpentier, 1889.

L'École des veufs; Au Temps de la ballade

Alexandre Charpentier, 1889

Embossed female figure in a dancing pose on tan paper, beside printed cast lists for Le Théâtre Libre programme.

La Dupe; Son petit coeur

Alexandre Charpentier, 1891

Theatre poster for Nell Horn showing a stylized nude female silhouette with outstretched arms against red and yellow.

Nell Horn

Alexandre Charpentier, 1891

Bust of a Bearded Old Man

Jan Lievens, probably early 1630s

Dark tavern scene of a violinist standing among seated listeners in hats around a lit table, rendered in hatched tones.

The Mandolin Player (Mandoliniste)

Henri Patrice Dillon, 1893

Etching of sheep grazing on a rocky coastal slope with the sea and distant headlands under a cloudy sky.

A Bit on Marblehead Neck

James David Smillie, 1883

Pen and ink drawing with brown wash of allegorical figures around a winged figure standing on a wheel, with labeled scrolls.

A Dialogue on Human Favor (recto) [fol. 15 verso / 16 recto]

Unknown artist, 1512/1514

Etching of a fallow hillside with grazing sheep, trees, and a stone wall under a cloudy sky.

A Fallow Field

James David Smillie, 1883

Pen and ink drawing of kneeling and standing figures gazing upward at serpent-like forms and rays in the sky.

"Turn Your Body as You Worship" [fol. 37 verso]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Tonal landscape print of a pond with a low dam, a tall tree on the left, and wooded hills under a broken sky.

An Old Dam Near Montrose

James David Smillie, 1891

Pen and ink drawing of a crowned man extending his hand to a group of men reaching up toward him.

"Do Not Give Your Right Hand to All and Sundry" [fol. 13 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Colored drawing of a courtier between Covetousness, a crowned piper with money bags, and a hooded Dissimulation, with a wolf

A Courtier Standing Between Covetousness and Dissimulation [fol. 14 recto]

Unknown artist, 1512/1514

Pen and ink drawing with red wash of a young man among allegorical figures, a Latin scroll, and a crouching figure labeled Ma

"Do Not Walk outside the Public Highway" [fol. 35 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Etching of a gnarled tree on a rocky coast with a sea horizon and stormy sky, by James David Smillie, 1880.

Old Cedars, Coast of Maine

James David Smillie, 1880

Etching of a young woman standing beside a seated older man in a top hat with a cane, in a room with a fireplace.

The Reprimand

Walter Shirlaw, 1882

Pen drawing of allegorical figures around a knight whose red heart is being grasped with pincers, with labeled banners.

"Do Not Eat Your Heart Out" [fol. 22 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink drawing of a haloed bearded man carrying sticks, a crucifix, a lion, and a seated youth under a tree.

"Help Him Who Takes up His Burden, Not Him Who Lays It down" [fol. 31 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen drawing of allegorical figures: a crowned man with scales, two blindfolded women turning a wheel, and two men holding a h

"Friendship Is Equality; A Friend Is Another Self" [fol. 10 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink drawing of a building facade with labeled allegorical figures, a staircase, and banners reading Cras and Tempus.

"Do Not Sit on the Grain Measure" [fol. 12 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink drawing of a spectacled woman riding a horse beside a veiled woman, with banners reading Credulitas and Mater spe

Credulity Preparing to Nurse the Mother of Hope [fol. 18 verso]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink allegory: Hope reaches toward a banner among sad monks, joyful dancers, fearful figures and soldiers.

Hope, Reaching for Heaven, Stands among Sad and Happy Men, Joys, and Fear [fol. 19 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Ink and wash drawing of a sick man in bed, a miser, a kneeling man, and a red-robed ape beside an apple tree.

An Ape in Purple with a Sick Man, a Good Man, and a Miser [fol. 36 verso]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and watercolor drawing of a robed man in a niche, swallows and flies near a window, and three storks with red legs.

"Do Not Have Swallows under the Same Roof" [fol. 40 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1514

Pen drawing of bearded Pythagoras in a hooded robe beside a flowering bean plant labeled Fabe, on a grassy mound.

"Do Not Eat Beans" [fol. 25 recto]

Unknown artist, 1512/1514

Pen and brown ink drawing of a group of figures surrounding a central man in a pointed-eared hood, early 16th century.

"Do Not Wear a Tight-Fitting Ring" [fol. 23 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen drawing of a feathered-capped figure gesturing beside a nude child holding a long sword over rocky ground.

"Turn aside the Sharp Sword" [fol. 44 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink drawing of a man in pleated garments raising a sword, with two crowns on a hill behind him.

"Do Not Break the Crown" [fol. 43 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink drawing of a man raising a sword while reaching toward a blazing fire on a stone hearth.

"Do Not Poke the Fire with a Sword" [fol. 20 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515