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National Gallery of Art

10,026 works

Botticelli painting of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, kneeling figures, horsemen, and ruined arches.

The Adoration of the Magi

Sandro Botticelli, c. 1478/1482

Mary rides a donkey holding the infant Jesus while Joseph leads them along a path past a river and hills.

The Flight into Egypt

Vittore Carpaccio, c. 1515

Three Osage men in feathered headdresses and fringed robes stand on a prairie holding a shield, spear, tomahawk and pipe.

Osage Chief with Two Warriors

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Renaissance painting of Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome and Saint John the Baptist in a landscape with a castle.

Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome and Saint John the Baptist

Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, c. 1492/1495

Madonna and Christ Child in a landscape with the infant Saint John and a lamb, cherubs in clouds above.

Madonna and Child and the Infant Saint John in a Landscape

Polidoro Lanzani, 1540/1550

Painting of Osage figures: a seated man, two standing men with weapons, and a woman holding a child on a plain.

Osage Indians

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of herdsmen in a red jacket with cattle on a grassy hill, a river and ruined castle under a cloudy sunset sky.

Herdsmen Tending Cattle

Aelbert Cuyp, 1655/1660

Painting of a shaded wooded road with tall trees, small figures, and a distant village under large clouds.

A Wooded Landscape

Meindert Hobbema, 1663

Painted facsimile of an Omaha robe design with a central bison, feathered staffs, and rows of red marks on tan ground.

Facsimile of an Omaha Robe

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of a couple dancing in a wooded garden with elegant onlookers, musicians, and a classical statue nearby.

La Camargo Dancing

Nicolas Lancret, c. 1730

Painting of a large oak beside a dirt road with thatched cottages, travelers, and billowing clouds in a wide sky.

A View on a High Road

Meindert Hobbema, 1665

Two mounted riders gallop across grassland, one with a spear and one with a bow, under a cloudy sky.

An Osage Indian Pursuing a Camanchee

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Young woman in blue dress guides a child writing at a wooden desk with a quill pen.

The Little Schoolmistress

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, after 1740

Painting of a tall cathedral spire behind trees and a sunlit meadow under billowing clouds, with cattle and figures.

Salisbury Cathedral from Lower Marsh Close

John Constable, 1820

Watercolor of a Mandan war chief with feathered headdress and staff, beside his wife holding a painted hide.

Mandan War Chief with His Favorite Wife

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of a mountain landscape with travelers crossing a stone bridge, a cliff with trees, and a cottage under a soft eveni

Mountain Landscape with Bridge

Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1783/1784

Hazy lagoon with boats in the foreground and a distant Venice skyline under a glowing yellow and blue sky.

Approach to Venice

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1844

Three Mandan warriors in feathered headdresses and fringed dress, armed with spear, bows and round shields, on a grassy plain

Three Mandan Warriors Armed for War

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Sleeping nymphs in a dark wooded landscape, with small cupids moving among them and a dog resting in the foreground.

Cupids Disarming Sleeping Nymphs

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, c. 1690/1705

Painting of a tree-lined riverside terrace with sailing boats and a low sun glowing over the water.

Mortlake Terrace

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1827

Painting of four Mandan warriors with feathered headdresses, a girl and a boy with a bow on an open prairie.

Four Mandan Warriors, a Girl, and a Boy

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of a young woman in a pink gown fainting while attended by three figures in an elegant 18th-century room.

The Faint

Pietro Longhi, c. 1744

Crucifixion painting with Christ on the cross on a gold ground, flanked by the Virgin in blue and a figure in pink.

The Crucifixion

Sano di Pietro, c. 1445/1450

Painting of a Mandan chief with a feathered headdress, a woman carrying a child, and earthen lodges on a plain.

Mandan Civil Chief, His Wife, and Child

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Blindfolded man with a stick faces a clay pot as elegantly dressed onlookers watch in a green-walled interior.

The Game of the Cooking Pot

Pietro Longhi, c. 1744

Loose sketch of a flying cherub above reclining draped figures on rocks, with a calm sea and pale sky behind.

Study for a Ceiling with the Personification of Counsel

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, before c. 1762

Watercolor of an elderly man with a pipe, a seated family with an infant, and a feathered shield on a plain under pale sky.

An Aged Minatarree Chief and His Family

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of gondolas on a Venetian canal passing under an arched bridge, with figures on the quayside and palazzi beyond.

View on the Cannaregio Canal, Venice

Francesco Guardi, c. 1775-1780

Reclining nude woman in a landscape with a lake, hilltop town and stone bridge, painted in warm tones.

Venus

Bernardino Luini, c. 1530

Three standing Indigenous figures in beaded and fringed dress, one holding a bow, one a feather fan, against a pale backgroun

Three Minatarree Indians

George Catlin, 1861