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National Gallery of Art

25,727 works

Ink and wash drawing of a woman with a flower crown and long dark hair, with a faint cat sketched beside her.

The Queen of Sheba (La Reine de Saba)

Odilon Redon, 1896-1900

Apollonius

Odilon Redon, 1896-1900

The Shadow (L'Ombre)

Odilon Redon, 1896-1900

Ink drawing of a dark winged figure with a pale face and a framed panel at its center, on pale paper.

The Devil (Le Diable)

Odilon Redon, 1896-1900

Sleeping infant beside a human skull on draped cloth, shown in soft grey tones against a dark background.

Memento Mori

Unknown artist, c. 1680

Lithograph of two sailing boats beached on rocks, with a group of figures standing near one boat under a cloudy sky.

Boats on the Beach

Bernard Gaillot, 1824

Worn brown leather book cover with tooled panels, brass clasps, and a handwritten paper title label reading Rodericus Zamoren

Spiegel des menschlichen Lebens

The Zamorensis Master, Master of Boccaccio, Rodericus Zamorensis, 1475/1476

Woodcut frontispiece portrait of a man in a flat cap and fur collar within an arched niche, with Latin caption above.

Annotationes Othonis Brunfelsii...in quatuor Euangelia & Acta Apostolorum...

Otto Brunfels Hans Baldung Grien, 1535

Pen and ink sketch of a satyr offering fruit to reclining nymphs beneath a tree, on tan paper.

Diana and Two Nymphs Receiving Gifts from a Satyr (recto)

Gerard van Honthorst, 1620s

Brown wash drawing of Diana with nymphs as a satyr kneels offering fruit, with a dog in the foreground.

Diana and Four Nymphs Receiving Gifts from a Satyr

Gerard van Honthorst, c. 1630

Pencil drawing of a man in a cap working at a lithographic press in a workshop with tools on the bench.

Self-Portrait Working at a Lithographic Press

Julius Adam the Elder, 1847

Grey wash drawing of ships and rowing boats on calm sea, with a harbor town and castle on the distant shore.

Shipping on the Oresund with Helsingor and Kronborg Castle in the Distance

Carl Emil Baagöe, 1896

Brown book cover with a large detailed flea in a diamond panel, surrounded by scrolling foliate ornament and grotesque heads.

Meister Floh. Ein Marchen in sieben Abentheuern zweier Freunde (Master Flea: A Fairy-Tale in Seven Adventures of Two…

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann Karl Friedrich Thiele, 1822

Watercolor of a ruined Doric temple with a seated man on its steps, shrubs and trees around it, under a blue sky.

A Temple Ruin in Agrigento

Carl Götzloff, c. 1825

Pencil drawing of a large tree over a stream with a footbridge, shed, barn and church steeple in the distance.

Castleton, Vermont

James Renwick Brevoort, 1871

Pencil drawing of large trees, a split-rail fence and a farmhouse at right beside an open meadow, dated September 1869.

Granby, Connecticut

James Renwick Brevoort, 1869

Pencil and wash drawing of a river with rapids, a mill building, a distant bridge and houses on a rocky hillside.

James McCullough's Leadmill

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1844

Grey wash drawing of ruined stone buildings by moonlit water, with cliffs on the right and a bright sky opening above.

Buildings by Moonlight

Thomas Moran, c. 1875

Pencil sketch of pale birch trees and bare branches on a steep wooded slope with rocks, by Jervis McEntee, 1860.

Kauterskill Clove

Jervis McEntee, 1860

Study for "Astronomy"

Elihu Vedder, 1892

Warm rose-toned watercolor of a castle on a cliff above a river, with two seated figures and sheep in the foreground.

Castle on a River

Robert Walter Weir, early 19th century

Engraved memorial to George Washington with three mourning women beside an obelisk, willow tree, and anchor.

Sacred to the Memory of the Illustrious George Washington

Thomas Clarke, 1801

Engraved oval portrait of a man in a powdered wig and embroidered coat, with garland border and inscription below.

His Excellency John Hancock, Esquire

Joseph H. Seymour, c. 1794

Lithograph of Bacchus showing draped women dancing in a dark wooded landscape, one raising a staff and another holding a tamb

Bacchus

Henri Fantin-Latour, 1903

Print of a seated nude woman raising one arm, holding a cloth, against a dark hatched background.

Verite

Henri Fantin-Latour, 1900

Engraving of a night river festival with fireworks bursting over a bridge and lantern-decorated boats crowded in the foregrou

Fete Venetienne sur la Seine

Louis Auguste Lepère

Etching of a farmhouse on a grassy rise beside a large tree trunk in the right foreground, under striated clouds.

Farm with a Large Tree (La Ferme au Grand Arbre)

Alphonse Legros, mid-19th century

Etching of a cloaked wayfarer kneeling on a path beside trees, with hatched sky and hills in the distance.

Wayfarer Surprised by a Storm (Le Voyageur surpris par l'Orage)

Alphonse Legros, late 19th century

Etching of a man in a hat bending over felled logs in a dark, dense forest with a bright sky opening at right.

Man Squaring Logs (Homme qui fend des bûches)

Alphonse Legros, 1877/1887

Lithograph portrait of a woman in a dark hood with lowered eyes, holding a folded paper, by William Strang.

The Widow