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National Gallery of Art

2,569 works

Engraving of Saint Cecilia with winged angels playing flute, lute and violin at a candlelit table.

Saint Cecilia Accompanied by Heavenly Musicians

Nicolaes Lauwers after Gerard Seghers

The Angel of the Annunciation

Guercino, c. 1638/1639

Chalk study of an elderly woman's upturned face in a veil, with two hand studies, on blue-gray paper.

Studies for Saint Anne in "Education of the Virgin"

Agostino Masucci

Black chalk drawing of the Virgin and Child with young John the Baptist, with a staff and cherubs in clouds above.

The Virgin and Child with John the Baptist

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin ascending through clouds toward a radiant light filled with angels and putti.

The Assumption of the Virgin

Giambattista Canal, c. 1785

Brown wash drawing of Saint John the Evangelist with a quill, an eagle and an open book on grey-blue paper.

Saint John the Evangelist

Georg Anton Urlaub, c. 1753

Pen and wash drawing of the Crucifixion with Christ on the cross, angels in clouds above, and grieving figures below.

The Crucifixion

Benjamin West, 1796/1797

Brown wash drawing of a robed prophet gesturing beside a lion, a fallen man, and a donkey under a tree.

The Disobedient Prophet

Benjamin West, 1793

Hand-colored woodcut of Christ carrying the cross, crowned with thorns, surrounded by soldiers, with Italian verse below.

Christ Carrying the Cross

Unknown artist, 1510/1525

Engraving of the entombment of Christ with mourning women, men lowering the body, and crown of thorns in foreground.

The Entombment

Aegidius Sadeler II after Federico Barocci

Saint Charles, Cardinal Borromeo

Jean Morin after Philippe de Champaigne

Engraved portrait of a bearded bishop in embroidered vestments and a cross, set in an octagonal frame.

Saint Francois de Sales

Etching of the Virgin seated with the sleeping infant Jesus, surrounded by winged angels and a landscape view.

Virgin and Angels Watching Over the Sleeping Infant Jesus

Francesco Cozza

Etching of saints healing a lame beggar among columns, with crowds of onlookers and putti in a classical colonnade.

Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man at the Golden Gate

Parmigianino after Raphael, c. 1527/1530

Engraving of the Finding of Moses: women by a river discover an infant in a basket among trees, framed by Rococo scrollwork.

The Finding of Moses

Joseph Wagner after Jacopo Amigoni, c. 1745

Engraving of Moses striking a shepherd beside a stone well, with women, a sheep and ruins in a landscape setting.

Moses Striking a Shepherd

Joseph Wagner after Jacopo Amigoni, c. 1745

Etching of Abraham kneeling before three winged angels under a tree, with a figure in a doorway and rococo border.

Abraham Kneeling before the Three Angels

Joseph Wagner after Jacopo Amigoni, c. 1745

Etching of Moses removing his sandal before a winged angel in a burning bush, with sheep and a shepherd in a wooded landscape

Moses and the Burning Bush

Joseph Wagner after Giuseppe Zocchi, c. 1745

Brown ink and wash drawing of two bearded saints with halos seated facing each other, one gesturing with an open hand.

Two Seated Saints

Unknown artist, 17th century

Brown wash drawing of an angel with one arm raised, head bowed, and billowing draped robes and wings.

An Angel

Daniele Crespi, c. 1620

Drawing of five saints with halos, including a central young man with a bow, bearded figures, a bishop, and two angels above.

Five Saints

Pen and wash drawing of a crowded religious procession with tall banners and a canopy passing across an open field.

Religious Procession in Landeck

Attributed to George Jones, 1820

Pen and blue wash drawing of Christ before a seated high priest, with soldiers, robed onlookers, columns and a dog.

Christ before Caiaphas

Crispen van den Broecke

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bearded armored man in a plumed helmet beside a kneeling nude and cloaked figures.

Saint Homobono

Attributed to Avanzino Nucci

Pen and brown ink drawing of the Virgin holding the infant Jesus with saints beneath draped curtains, red chalk underdrawing.

The Virgin and Infant Jesus with Saints

Hans Rottenhammer, c. 1600

Engraving of two apostles beside a seated paralytic man in a colonnaded hall, with a crowd of onlookers and a dog.

Apostles Peter and John Healing the Paralytic

Lambert Suavius, 1553

Engraving of a winged guardian angel leading a nude child across clouds, with a crouching cherub and a rocky landscape below.

Guardian Angel

Girolamo Imperiale I, 1622

Etched plan and elevation of a church with stairs, arches, and a lettered key listing altars and the sepulchre.

Plan and Elevation of the Church of the Madonna's Sepulchre

Jacques Callot, 1619

Engraved floor plan of the Church of the Holy Nativity with numbered rooms, courtyards, a key legend and compass rose.

Plan of the Church of the Holy Nativity

Jacques Callot, 1619

Etched architectural plan and elevation of a domed church with a cross marking the altar in the floor plan below.

Plan and Elevation of the Church of Saints James and John

Jacques Callot, 1619