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National Gallery of Art

25,724 works

Pen and wash drawing of an armored knight and a veiled woman seated across a table, with sketched winged figures above.

Olympia Tells Roland Her Sad Story

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1780s

Grey wash drawing of a rocky wooded landscape with trees, a small figure by a stream, and a cloudy sky.

A Rocky Wooded Landscape with a Figure by a Stream

Thomas Gainsborough, 1781

Pen and brown ink drawing of a partly draped woman holding up a pair of scales, an allegory of Justice.

Personification of Justice

Guercino, c. 1640

Pencil drawing of a riverside tavern with thatched roofs, a moored sailboat, and figures beside a horse and cart under a pale

A Tavern by a River

Jan van Goyen, 1640

Pencil portrait of an infant in a bonnet seated in a high chair, framed with ruled borders and the name Eduard.

Eduard, the Artist's Infant Son

Julius Hübner, 1842

Trompe l'oeil drawing of old prints with animals, a satyr and nymph, a torn envelope, horn-rimmed glasses and a fly.

Trompe l'Oeil: Old Prints, a Torn Envelope with Horn-rimmed Glasses, and a Housefly

Jean-Pierre-Xavier Bidauld after Various Artists, 1763

Circular engraving of Saint John the Baptist with the Lamb of God in a rocky landscape, surrounded by Evangelist symbols and

Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness with the Lamb of God, Surrounded by the Symbols of the Evangelists and the F…

Master E. S., 1466

Pastel drawing of Waterloo Bridge by Claude Monet, arches softened in blue and yellow mist over the river.

Waterloo Bridge

Claude Monet, 1901

Engraving of a classical nude male statue and a rearing horse among ruins, with pedestal inscriptions Opus Fidiae and Opus Pr

Opus Filiae... Opus Praxitelis

Unknown artist, before 1546

Engraving of the rear of two colossal horse statues and their nude male tamers atop brick ruins, with two sketching figures b

Equitum, in Quirinali, aversa parte

Unknown artist, 1550

Dark drawing by Charles Angrand showing a faint luminous figure emerging from shadow, with a signature in the lower left corn

The Annunciation to the Shepherds

Charles Angrand, 1894

Title page with a large ornate initial and gothic lettering reading Apocalipsis cum figuris, on pale paper.

Title Page

Albrecht Dürer, 1498

Pen drawing of an ornate New Year's greeting card with German lettering, drummers, a child, a woman, and a fur muff.

A New Year's Greeting

Adolph Menzel, 1839

Daumier lithograph of two caricatured soldiers in formal uniform, one in a tall shako saluting beside a mustached officer.

Un Jour de Grande Tenue

Honoré Daumier, 1844

Caricature lithograph of three bathers on a beach, a woman in plaid and a stout figure in stripes, with a child running ahead

Madame Prudhomme...

Honoré Daumier, 1854

Daumier caricature lithograph: a tall top-hatted man and a uniformed man stand among dogs beside trees and a building.

Visitant l'interieur...

Honoré Daumier, 1859

Pen and grey wash design with two saints flanking a blank central panel, scrollwork frame and a dated cartouche at the base.

Glass Design with Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist

Hans Kaspar Lang the Elder, 1595

Pencil and chalk landscape drawing of a valley with a stone structure, trees, a stream and distant hills.

Corpo di Cava

Eduard Agricola, 1844

Etching of a forest stream with rocks and a ruined castle on a hill, with a small figure standing by the trees.

Sammlung Radierter Blaetter von Nathe

Christoph Nathe, 1808

Pencil sketch of clouds over a landscape and a cloaked old woman standing beside a column, with handwritten notes.

Studies of Clouds and an Old Woman

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Oil sketch of sunbeams breaking through dark clouds over a plain with trees and a small building at left.

Sun Breaking through Clouds above the Roman Campagna

Johann Jakob Frey, 1844 or after

Pen and brown ink drawing of a haloed saint holding a cross, wheat, and Passion instruments beside open books.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux with the Instruments of the Passion

Pieter de Jode, c. 1625

Pen and brown ink drawing of a standing woman in a veil holding a child beside an inscribed scroll, labeled Sibila Eritrea.

Eritrean Sibyl

Unknown artist

Pencil sketch of a Chinese peasant with a shoulder pole and basket, standing on open ground beside rocks.

A Chinese Peasant

George Chinnery, 1839

Ink and wash drawing of a seated woman in drapery turning toward a standing man against a shaded background.

Two Figures in Classical Dress

Henri-Pierre Danloux

Pen and ink drawing of a group of slender trees with bare branches and leafy clumps above low undergrowth.

Trees

Watercolor landscape of snowy mountain peaks above a dark valley and lake, with an inscription reading The Rainy Day.

Illustration for Longfellow's "The Rainy Day"

Myles Birket Foster, 1850s

Pen and brown ink drawing of a standing nude figure with sea figures and waves around a shell-shaped saltcellar design.

A Design for a Saltcellar

Unknown artist

Watercolor of a woman in a red bonnet and a bearded man swimming in the sea near a cliffed shoreline.

Male and Female Bathers

Pen and brown wash drawing of an ornate architectural frame with a putto, scrolls, and an urn with foliage.

An Elaborately Sculpted Frame

Unknown artist