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National Gallery of Art

25,727 works

Oval graphite drawing of a smiling seated boy with short dark hair, white collar and arms folded over his knee.

Seated Boy

Thomas Lawrence

Watercolor drawing of sailors in a rowing boat with oars and a sail, several figures raising their arms on green water.

Greek Sailors on a Venetian Canal

Friedrich Nerly, c. 1851

Sepia drawing of a turreted castle on a hilltop with fortified walls, captioned in German with the name Schloss Landstuhl.

Schloss Landstuhl b. Kaisers, Lautern, den Prinzen v. Sickingen gehürig

Karl Julius von Leypold

Pale brown wash drawing of a medieval castle with towers and walls on a hilltop, by Karl Julius von Leypold, 1806.

Das alte Schloss Gutenfeis bei Caub am Rhein

Karl Julius von Leypold

Sepia wash drawing of a medieval castle with a spired tower on a hilltop, with a half-timbered house below.

Schloss Windeck b. Weinhelm a. d. Bergstrasse

Karl Julius von Leypold

Pale brown wash drawing of a walled town with a large palace, spires and towers behind city walls.

Das Schloss zu Kaiserslautern

Karl Julius von Leypold

Brown wash drawing of a hilltop castle with a tall tower above a medieval town of roofs, towers and spires.

Schloss Lindenfels bei Weinheim im Odenwald

Karl Julius von Leypold

Charcoal sketch of a Spanish dancer in a full skirt, one arm raised overhead, drawn on tan paper with pink accents.

A Spanish Dancer

Ricard Canals Llambí, c. 1900

Brown wash drawing of a bishop at an altar with kneeling worshippers and dynamic figures amid smoke and a temple.

Daniel's Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks

Lukas Stipperger, 1797

Etching of a massive oak over a river, with a seated fisherman holding a rod and a bridge in the distance.

Giant Oak with a Seated Fisherman

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe

Lithograph of a withered tree beside a pond with reeds, lily pads, and a thatched cottage in the background.

Withered Tree by a Pond

Carl August Lebschee, 1829

Lithograph of a landscape with a tree trunk, broad leaves, a hillside and distant buildings under a cloudy sky.

Landscape with a Tree Trunk

Carl August Lebschee, 1829

Print of a rocky forest floor with large ferns, mushrooms, a dead tree on the right and conifers fading into the distance.

Hilly Forest View with a Fern

Carl August Lebschee, 1829

Lithograph of dense wetland plants with broad leaves, tall flower umbels, grasses, a butterfly and a distant tree.

Wetland Plants

Carl August Lebschee, 1829

Printed Latin text page with woodcut border showing a tree, a nude man and woman, and ornamental figures.

De Claris Mulieribus (Concerning Famous Women)

Master of Boccaccio, Giovanni Boccaccio, Johann Zainer, 1473

Watercolor of a Venetian canal seen through stone arcade arches, with a bell tower, stone bridge, gondolas and figures.

San Giorgio dei Greci, Seen from an Arcade

Samuel Prout, 1824/1829

Engraving of Ezekiel among resurrecting skeletons and ruins, with God and angels in clouds above.

The Vision of Ezekiel

Giovanni Battista Fontana, 1579

Sepia print of a man in a fur hat and patterned jacket leaning on a ledge, holding a pencil, turned to the right.

Carle Van Loo

Gilles Demarteau, the Elder, after Carle Van Loo, c. 1760

Etching of a bacchanal with a reclining nude woman, sleeping figure, garlanded standing woman, and ruins in the distance.

Bacchanal

Giovanni David, 1775

Title page of a book reading ARABESQUES MYTHOLOGIQUES in black capital letters on aged cream paper.

Arabesques Mythologiques

Antoine Joseph Gaitte Comtesse Stéphanie Félicité de Genlis, 1810

Watercolor of a standing woman in embroidered jacket and white dress beside a patterned rug and cushioned bench.

A Moroccan Woman in Traditional Dress

Mariano Fortuny Marsal, 1866

Sepia night print of a decorated city square with a temple facade, fireworks overhead, and a large crowd watching.

La Décoration et du Feu d'Artifice... la Naissance de Monseigneur le Daufin (Fireworks Celebrating the Birth of the D…

Victor-Jean Nicolle, 1782

Brown ink and wash drawing of winged angels in clouds, one playing a lute in the foreground.

Angels in Glory

Jan Müller, 1590

Watercolor of a sunlit Italian street with ornate palazzo balconies, a tower, shopfronts and pedestrians under blue sky.

Corso Sant' Anastasia with the Palazzo Maffei in Verona

William Callow, 1855

Drawing of Adam and Eve led away by an angel past a serpent, set among intricate thorny foliage on red paper.

The Expulsion from Eden

Unknown artist, 1780s?

Drawing of nude Adam and Eve embracing amid two sheep and two doves on a red patterned ground with gold scrollwork.

Adam and Eve in the Garden with Two Sheep and Two Doves

Unknown artist, 1780s?

Adam and Eve stand nude on a red patterned ground with a pair of sheep and two doves in the corners.

Adam and Eve in the Garden with a Pair of Sheep and a Pair of Doves

Unknown artist, 1780s?

Sheet of tonal studies showing two standing figures in turbans and robes, a classical head, and two bearded faces.

Fragments choisis dans les Peintures et les tableaux les plus intéressants des palais et des églises de l'Italie (Fra…

Abbé de Saint-Non Jean-Claude-Richard, 1767-1775

Pen and ink sketch of two men in period coats beside a railing, one leaning forward and gesturing, the other pointing.

Two Workmen at Tables (recto)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, early 1770s

Black ink handprint of a left hand on tan paper, with fingerprint ridges and palm lines visible, and a red seal below.

The Artist's Left Hand

Henri Charles Guérard, 1890s