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National Gallery of Art

5,752 works

Grey wash drawing of a ruined arch and tower framing a harbor with ships and figures on steps.

Port Scene

Follower of Claude-Joseph Vernet

Black and red chalk sketch of three studies of a woman's head and a hand reaching across the page.

Three Studies of a Woman's Head and a Study of Hands [recto]

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718/1719

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated woman in a wreath playing a lute, with flowing drapery.

The Lute Player

after Orazio Gentileschi, 18th century

Pen-and-ink sketch of a standing man holding an open book, with handwritten notes and a letter beneath, by Winslow Homer.

Sunday after Christmas 1848

Winslow Homer, 1868

Graphite drawing of a hand with shaded fingers and a sleeve cuff at the wrist, on pale paper, initialed A. L.

The Hand of the Artist's Daughter

Alphonse Legros

Graphite drawing of a seated female nude resting her head on her arm, with loose drapery sketched beneath her.

Female Nude Seated

Alphonse Legros

Painted miniature of a haloed risen Christ with a cross banner, surrounded by sleeping armored soldiers and a landscape.

The Resurrection

Simon Bening, c. 1530

Four haloed saints in colored ink on parchment, one holding a palm frond, with inscriptions naming them above.

Saints Cyprian, Vitus, Stephan, and Cornelius

Unknown artist, third quarter 12th century

Pale interlaced initial with red outlines and foliate scrolls on green and grey ground, above a line of brown manuscript text

Initials V and D

Unknown artist, third quarter 12th century

Illuminated manuscript page with a seated evangelist in a decorated blue initial beside columns of Latin text.

Saint Luke

Unknown artist, fourth quarter 12th century

Two facing manuscript pages of Latin Gospel text with red initials and a decorated rubric beginning Saint Mark.

Saint Mark

Unknown artist, fourth quarter 12th century

Pen and wash drawing of the Flight into Egypt with Mary, the Christ child, Joseph and a donkey, plus sketches and Latin text.

The Flight into Egypt [recto]

Unknown artist, early 15th century

Pen and brown ink sketch on paper with figures in framed registers and handwritten Latin text at the top and sides.

The Destruction of the Egyptian Idols [verso]

Unknown artist, early 15th century

Pencil drawing of a standing male figure seen from behind, with curly hair, ribbons, pleated sleeves and boots.

Standing Figure [recto]

After Jacques Bellange

Pencil sketch of two armored horsemen, one pointing and one raising a staff, with a turbaned head and small face studies.

Figures on Horseback [verso]

After Jacques Bellange

Winter farmyard drawing with snow-covered cottages, a leafless tree, a pig, children, and a sailboat mast at right.

Farmyard in Winter

Jacob Cats, 1786

Brown wash drawing of a slave market with a bound figure on a platform, a seated turbaned merchant, and a crowd of onlookers.

The Slave Market [recto]

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

Brown ink drawing of uniformed men on a shore near tents and a ship, framed by an ornate rococo cartouche.

The Landing of the Dutch Expedition Party in New York

Hubert François Gravelot

Pen and brown wash drawing of a woman in a gown surrounded by Gothic scrolling foliage, with a parrot at lower right.

Gothic Ornament with a Lady and a Parrot

Master LCz, c. 1495

Crowned king writing in an open book inside a decorative gold initial S, flanked by green dragons on a gold background.

Initial S with King David as Scribe

Master of the Cypresses, 1430s

Illuminated initial T showing monks singing before an altar, with a kneeling man at a lion-head water spout below.

Initial T with a group of Benedictine monks singing before an altar from which issues water

Master of the Cypresses, 1430s

Illuminated letter A with blue dragons, pink wolves and green scrolling foliage on a gold background.

Initial A

Master of the Cypresses, 1430s

Illuminated gold initial D with a purple dragon and green foliage inside an oval counter.

Initial D

Master of the Cypresses, 1430s

Illuminated initial L with gold ground, blue patterned panel, pink flowers and green scrolling foliage.

Initial L

Master of the Cypresses, 1430s

Gilded decorative initial letter with green and orange foliage and flowers inside purple and blue borders on cream paper.

Initial U (?)

Master of the Cypresses, 1430s

Kneeling crowned figure in red robe praying inside a gilded illuminated initial with blue ornament and an open book.

Initial N (?) with David in Prayer

Master of the Cypresses, 1430s

Illuminated initial I with a crowned bearded man in a red robe leaning on a blue letter against gold leaf and foliage.

Initial I with David

Master of the Cypresses, 1430s

Seated bearded king in a gold crown and blue robe, resting his head on his hand, inside a gilded decorated initial C.

Initial C with David (King Saul?)

Master of the Cypresses, 1430s

Illuminated initial L with gold border showing a bearded prophet in blue robe seated at a desk with a book and scroll.

Initial L with Old Testament Prophet

Master of the Cypresses, 1430s

Illuminated initial D with a crowned seated man in blue holding a scroll, set against gold leaf and floral borders.

Initial D with David

Master of the Cypresses, 1430s