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National Gallery of Art

25,727 works

Etching of a wooded landscape with leaning trees, reeds and a river receding toward distant hills under a pale sky.

Wooded Landscape with a River

Laurent de La Hyre, 1640

Grey wash drawing of a classically draped woman carrying a water jug on her shoulder, after an antique statue.

The Ludovisi Water Carrier

Augustin Pajou, 1752/1756

Pencil sketch of a kneeling woman in draped robes, head bowed, with the French caption 'fille de Niobé' below.

One of Niobe's Daughters

Augustin Pajou, 1752/1756

The Borghese Cybele

Augustin Pajou, 1752/1756

Pencil drawing of a seated angel gazing upward with draped robes and cloud forms behind, on pale paper.

Angel from the Assumption [recto]

Augustin Pajou after Charles Mellin, 1752/1756

Pen sketch of the Ripetta port in Rome with classical columns, stone steps, small figures and clouds over distant hills.

The Ripetta in Rome [verso]

Augustin Pajou, 1752/1756

Lion's Head from the Capitoline Staircase

Augustin Pajou, 1752/1756

Pen and ink sketch of crumbling classical ruins and overgrown foliage along a riverbank.

Ancient Ruins on the Bank of the Tiber

Augustin Pajou, 1752/1756

Charcoal study on brown paper of horses in motion, one with a rider, plus studies of legs and heads.

Study of Horses

Edgar Degas, c. 1886

Charcoal sketch of a horse with its head turned left, carrying a rider seen from behind.

Horse and Rider

Edgar Degas, c. 1878

Self-Portrait

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1928

Loose ink and crayon drawing of a seated nude figure in a bath, with bright yellow, orange, green and blue strokes.

Erna Bathing in a Tub

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1913/1914

Pen drawing of an imagined city with a classical stone bridge, columned palaces, a loggia, and a ship's masts behind.

A Capriccio of Palaces and a Loggia Facing a Classical Bridge

Bernardo Bellotto, c. 1765

Lithograph of a standing man in a top hat and frock coat holding a cane, with a tree and house behind him.

The Senior Government Auditor Rudolf Schadow (The Artist's Brother)

Johann Gottfried Schadow, 1824

Etching of the alpine town Radstadt with a castle and church tower, travelers on horseback and peasant women in the foregroun

Radstadt near Tauern

Johann Christoph Erhard and Johann Adam Klein after Carl Ludwig Friedrich Viehbeck, 1818

Black and white woodcut of a cheering crowd behind a striped fence, with a man in a top hat at center and a racket at right.

Le Gagnant (The Winner)

Félix Vallotton, 1898

Pen and grey wash drawing of a classical feast with a nude woman, satyrs, putti and a fountain in an arched niche.

Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus Freezes

Johann Matthias Kager, 1590s

Brown wash drawing of the Flagellation of Christ with scourgers, demons, and angels above in an arched frame.

The Flagellation of Christ

Claudio Ridolfi, 1619

Watercolor and pencil landscape of a twin-peaked volcano with smoke rising, under cloudy sky, with sketched town and trees be

Panoramic Views of Vesuvius and Monte Pellegrino

Carl Rottmann, 1827

Etching of classical ruins and a fallen column in the foreground, with a river, bridge, and distant castle town beyond.

Landscape with Ruins

Attributed to Antonio Francesco Lucini, 17th century

Etching of fishing boats with sails and rigging moored on calm sea, a rowboat in front, and a rocky coastline at right.

Barque de Pecheurs

Adolphe Appian, 1874

Watercolor trompe l'oeil of folded papers, playing cards, drawing tools, a garden plan, and a flower urn on a ruled ground.

Trompe l'oeil

Giuseppe Voltolini, 1846

Pen and ink drawing of a vertical grotesque panel with an urn, acanthus scrolls, and a satyr figure at the base.

Grotesque with a Satyr

Unknown artist

Engraved print of the Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine, a bearded saint, and a child with a scroll before classical colu

Madonna and Child with Saint Catherine

Giovanni Gallo after Marco Pino

Woodcut of mourners grieving over a nude dead man in a landscape with trees and hills.

The Lamentation

Hans Baldung Grien, 1510

Etching of a road beside tall trees and a hillside, with small figures walking and a building in the distance.

Part of the Via Flaminia

Bartholomeus Breenbergh, 1639/40

Pen and ink drawing of two thatched cottages with chimneys, small doors and windows, and climbing vines under an open sky.

Two Cottages

Eugène Isabey, c. 1844

Sheet of pen and ink studies showing a rearing horse, a male torso, several heads, and a draped standing figure.

Sheet of Studies

Unknown artist, late 16th century

Red chalk drawing of a walled town with a tower and cypress trees beside a winding path under a cloudy sky.

An Italian Walled Town Seen through Trees

François Lemoyne, c. 1724

Pen drawing of robed men beneath arches, one bending to offer a coin, with a figure looking from a window at right.

Peter Paying the Temple Tax

Gustav Heinrich Naecke, 1820/1821