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National Gallery of Art

25,724 works

Charcoal drawing on yellow paper of a reclining nude figure and a seated woman with dark hair, in bold angular lines.

Fränzi Reclining

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1910

Charcoal sketch of rocky boulders and scrubby vegetation in a mountain landscape, by Egon Schiele, 1917.

Mountain Stream

Egon Schiele, 1917

Brown ink sketch of a youth carried aloft by a large eagle, with small figure studies in the corners of the sheet.

Ganymede

Unknown artist

Pen and ink architectural study with a sketched figure, column capital, and scroll ornaments on aged paper.

An Architectural Study with an Atlantid

Unknown artist

Pencil sketch of a chandelier over seated figures in an interior, with a curtained doorway and studies below.

A Gathering in an Interior; A Curtained Doorway

Félix-Hilaire Buhot

Graphite sketch of reclining Venus and a winged Cupid on aged paper, with diagonal construction lines across the figures.

Venus and Cupid

Graphite sketch of a seated nude man twisting to point his arm to the right, on tan paper.

A Seated Nude Man Pointing to the Right

Francesco Solimena

Pen and ink sheet with multiple sketched heads, profiles and small full-length figures in hats and coats.

Studies of Figures and Heads

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen

Hand-colored print of ruined Doric temple columns with overgrown pediment, a brick archway and small figures under a pale sky

The Temple of Hercules at Cori

probably after Alessandro Moretti Johann Gottlieb Prestel, c.1784

Watercolor landscape of a valley at sunset with blue cypress trees and rolling hills in pointillist dots.

A Broad Valley at Sunset

Hippolyte Petitjean, c. 1897

Watercolor and ink sketch of a rocky calanque with colorful cliffs, trees and reflections on the water by Paul Signac.

The Calanque at Saint Tropez

Paul Signac, 1906

Ink and wash drawing of a river town with a church spire, a ruined castle on a hill, and trees reflected in water.

Les Andelys on a Summer Morning

Paul Signac, 1923

Pen and brown ink drawing of an armored warrior on a shore with soldiers, kneeling figures, and classical architecture behind

The Embarkation of Aeneas from the Ceraunian Headland

after Luca Cambiaso Giulio Benso

Etching of a landscape with a tall tree, figures by a stream, a distant castle on a hill, and clouds above.

Woman with a Donkey Driver

Joachim Franz Beich, c.1700-1725

Etching of a rocky wooded landscape with a waterfall, a hunter with a dog in the foreground, and small figures on a distant l

The Hunter

Joachim Franz Beich, c.1700-1725

Etching of a landscape with two goats by a stream, a large tree, small waterfalls, a rocky cliff and figures.

Two Goats by the Water

Joachim Franz Beich, c.1700-1725

Etching of a rocky waterfall landscape with pine trees and two fishermen at the water's edge in the lower right.

The Two Fishermen

Joachim Franz Beich, c.1700-1725

Etched landscape with a rocky cliff, pine trees, a stream with dogs, and two figures, one on horseback, under a cloudy sky.

A Woman with a Horse and a Standing Man

Joachim Franz Beich, c.1700-1725

Etching of tall trees, two riders on horseback by a pond with reeds, and a dog on a path under cloudy sky.

Riders by a Pond

Alexandre Calame, 1841

Pencil and white chalk study of a seated nude man beside a sketch of a draped seated figure on tan paper.

A Seated Man Nude and then Clothed

Gustav Heinrich Naecke, 1820s

Woodcut of a crowded studio with artists painting a grapevine panel, a woman playing violin, and birds on the beams.

Officia M.T.C.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Hans Weiditz, II, Hans Burgkmair I, 1531

Etching of a horse pulling a sled of milk cans past a snowy farm building, with a dog and bare tree in the foreground.

Hauling the Milk

Harold Denison, 1936

Etching of a snowy hillside landscape with bare trees and several deer grazing and walking across the fields.

Wintry Fields

Harold Denison, 1936

Brown ink sketch of a standing nude beside a washstand and mirror, drawn with loose angular strokes and hatched shading.

Nude with a Mirror, Standing Before a Washstand

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1908-1910

Pencil sketch of a seated nude woman in a wide-brimmed hat, legs crossed, drawn in loose outline on cream paper.

Dodo Seated

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1910

Ink and watercolor drawing of two nude bathers, one standing in a red cap and one reclining, set among green foliage and blue

Two Bathers near the Woods

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1910/1911

Charcoal sketch of two nude women standing in a studio beside a window, one reaching toward the other.

Fränzi and Marcella in the Studio

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1910

Ink sketch of two angular dancers on brown paper, with a cat sitting in the lower left corner.

Two Dancers with a Cat

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1913

Engraving of the nude figure Icarus falling headfirst through the sky, with a smaller winged figure below over the sea.

Icarus

after Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem Hendrik Goltzius, 1588

Charcoal line drawing of a seated female nude leaning left, head bowed, arm across knee, on tan paper.

Female Nude Bending to the Left

Egon Schiele, 1918