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National Gallery of Art

25,727 works

Etched ornamental design of a coffered ceiling with grid of square panels filled with floral and scroll motifs.

Ornamental Design for Coffered Ceiling

Engraved print of a tall tiered triumphal altar with a crucifixion, saints, and a nativity scene in an arched niche.

Triumphal Altar with Stages in the Life of Christ

Daniel Hopfer, 1518

Etching of the crucified Christ in an ornate tiered niche flanked by armored soldiers, winged figures and columns.

The Crucified Christ in a Decorated Niche

Woodcut of a crowned king at a banquet table attended by skeletons, with an hourglass on the table and a patterned hanging be

The King

Hans Lützelburger

Engraved battle scene of nude men fighting armored soldiers beneath snow-covered fir trees, with fallen bodies in the foregro

Battle of the Naked Men and Peasants

Hans Lützelburger, 1522

Engraved portrait of an elderly man with white hair holding a cross, labeled Sanctus Philippus, within a double-ruled border.

Sanctus Phillipus

Giovanni Marco Pitteri

Artist's mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1912/1922

Green book cover with a cream label reading Georg Heym, Umbra Vitae, with 47 woodcuts by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.

Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: The Shadow of Life)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1924

Blue-toned print of a peasant woman in a white cap carrying a basket, seen from behind against a hatched yellow background.

Paysanne avec pannier

Henri-Gabriel Ibels, 1895

Hand-colored drawing of a woman in a hat beside a tree, with a village church on yellow hills and a title in black lettering.

Susurrements, poèsies par Hébert-Milnard

Émile Bernard, 1890

Etching of a crowing rooster with ruffled feathers and the inscription "VIVE LE TSAR!" on a dark background.

Long Live the Tzar! (Vive le Tzar!)

Pierre Braquemond, 1893

Charcoal sketch of fishermen in a rowing boat on waves above two men handling and emptying large fishing nets.

Study for "The Fishermen" with Men Emptying the Nets (Etude pour "Les Pêcheurs" et hommes vidant des raies)

Georges Lacombe, 1894/1895

Paul Sérusier

Georges Lacombe, 1895

Expressive ink drawing of a gaunt, barefoot beggar in ragged clothing with one arm extended, on cream paper.

Beggar

René Beeh, c. 1920

Etching sheet with sketched male portraits and multiple nude figure studies in loose linear strokes.

Sketches of Men, including Max Liebermann

Lovis Corinth, c. 1915

Black and cream woodcut of a young woman with wide eyes and dark hair, one hand raised near her face, in a dense angular sett

Girl Dreaming

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1918

Black woodcut of a seated woman with arms folded on her knees, with spiky plant forms behind her on cream paper.

Seated Woman

Engraving of four passengers in top hats and heavy coats crowded into a railway carriage, with stern expressions.

Train de plaisir

Charles Maurand, 1862

Engraving of top-hatted men seated in a gallery, studying a framed painting held up before them while a speaker stands on a p

Les Amateurs de tableaux a l'hotel Bouillon

Charles Maurand, 1862

Black and white engraving of top-hatted men and a woman with a bundle crowding a city street with trees and buildings.

Le Boulevard des Italiens

Charles Maurand, 1862

Crowd of top-hatted men and bonneted women gathered under a street lamp, several with startled, wide-eyed expressions.

Boulevard du Temple a minuit

Charles Maurand, 1862

Hand-colored allegorical print of winged figures, a lyre-playing god, a reclining man, and a woman drawing beside classical c

Study Revealing Anatomy to Medicine and Art

Alexandre Briceau, 1786

Engraved theatre scene: a top-hatted man raises his arm beside a seated woman in a box, dancers on stage behind them.

Le Couplet final

Charles Maurand, 1862

Pen and ink sketch of a man fused with a smoking cannon beside a figure in a boxlike masquerade headpiece.

Two Men in Masquerade Costumes: A Cannon Firing and a Cat Inside a Mousetrap

Stefano Della Bella, c. 1645

Print of a waiting room with seated women on a bench and a standing man in a top hat holding a cane, posters on the wall.

Un Bureau d'attente d'omnibus

Charles Maurand, 1862

Seated archbishop in silk robes and pectoral cross, drawn in chalk on tinted paper, beside a column and curtain.

Monseigneur Charles de Saint-Albin, Archbishop of Cambrai

Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1740

Engraving of a seated heavyset man and a bearded photographer gesturing beside a large wooden box camera on a tripod.

Photographes et photographies

Charles Maurand, 1862

Engraving of a painter at an easel with a palette, watched by a bearded man and a woman in an interior with framed pictures.

Peintres et bourgeois

Charles Maurand, 1862

Pen and wash drawing of St. Peter's Square in Rome seen through an ornate coffered arch, with an obelisk and fountain.

The Piazza of Saint Peter's Seen through an Arch of the Basilica

Giacomo Quarenghi, 1778/1779

Engraving of a crowd of top-hatted men and bonneted women watching a railway train with steam rising in the background.

Les Voyageurs du dimanche

Charles Maurand, 1862