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National Gallery of Art

5,752 works

Brown ink drawing of a cylindrical Roman tomb with an inscribed tablet and columns at its base.

Tomb of Plautius

Bartholomeus Breenbergh

Brown ink and wash drawing of towering rock formations, a hilltop castle with a tower, and a distant hazy valley.

The Fantastic Rocks and Castle at Bomarzo [recto]

Bartholomeus Breenbergh, 1625

Black and red chalk portrait drawing of a man with curly hair, mustache and goatee, gazing toward the viewer.

Portrait of a Man

Grey wash drawing of a rearing white horse, a turbaned rider, and panicked soldiers and horses, with a distant battle.

The Defeat of Sennacherib

Pieter Soutman, 1618

Brown wash drawing of a chaotic lion hunt with hunters on horseback, spears raised, and lions attacking.

Lion Hunt

Pieter Soutman, 1615

Pen and wash drawing of soldiers on horseback with trumpets and foot soldiers carrying a head on poles before a distant city.

The Triumph of David

Style of Jan Luyken, c. 1700

Oval brown ink and wash drawing of a nude woman with a wreath, a child, a centaur, and a bust on a pedestal under laurel.

Antique Subject

Style of Angelica Kauffmann

Pen drawing on parchment of Gothic architectural motifs, with columns and pointed tracery patterns in dark ink.

Standing Youth with a Branch

Unknown artist, c. 1325

Pen drawing with red accents of a seated woman with flowers in her hair, framed by stylized leafy foliage.

Seated Girl with a Dog

Unknown artist, c. 1325

Pen and ink drawing of a seated nude warrior with a sword, skull, lion, and classical ruins, by Maerten van Heemskerck.

Simeon the Patriarch

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1549

Pencil sketch of a cloaked man on a ship deck raising his hand toward a large star-crowned face above him.

Napoleon Views His Rising Star

Grey wash drawing of a market scene with a seated woman, a barrel, wooden wheels, figures in hats, and a bird on the ground.

Market Scene

Unknown artist, 17th century

Red and black chalk drawing of winged angels, putti and a harp among clouds, by Federico Zuccaro.

Angels and Putti in the Clouds

Federico Zuccaro, 1566

Brown ink and wash drawing of Christ in a triumphal chariot pulled by a lion, with kneeling figures, clergy and a crowd.

The Triumph of Christ

attributed to Bartolomeo Roverio

Red chalk drawing of an oval fountain in a wooded garden with tall trees, seated figures, and a statue on a terrace.

The Oval Fountain in the Gardens of the Villa d'Este, Tivoli

Hubert Robert, 1760

Grey ink drawing of a hooded skeletal figure with an arrow looming over a woman with raised arms and a small cherub.

Death Stalking a Woman

Carl Gotthard Langhans

Grey wash drawing of a laurel-crowned robed man raising a bowl at an altar before veiled women and Ionic columns.

An Ancient Sacrifice

Clément Pierre Marillier, 1800

Full-length portrait of a young man in a blue coat leaning on a ruined wall beside classical carvings and trees.

Frederick North, Later Fifth Earl of Guilford, in Rome

Hugh Douglas Hamilton, 1780

Bust of a Roman Woman and Statue of a Roman Man

Hubert Robert, 1754

Octagonal pencil drawing of fan-shaped plumes, berries, branches, and two roses with fern fronds on a light ground.

Pagoda Flowers and Roses

Jean-Baptiste Pillement

Pencil and pink-wash drawing of star-shaped flowers, bead chains, caterpillars and moths on an octagonal sheet.

Bamboo Flowers and Cactus

Jean-Baptiste Pillement

Pencil drawing of daisies, trumpet flowers, berry sprigs, a butterfly and a dragonfly on an octagonal sheet.

Trumpet Flowers and Daisies

Jean-Baptiste Pillement

Pencil and red chalk drawing of fanciful flowers, branches and insects on an octagonal sheet.

Fanciful Flowers and Bugs

Jean-Baptiste Pillement

Chalk drawing on tan paper showing three studies of hands, two clasped in prayer and one resting with fingers interlaced.

Three Studies of Hands Clasped in Prayer

Brown ink drawing of a rustic kiln of stacked sticks beside a fence and barrel, with two seated women and thatched cottages.

A Rustic Kiln at Vernon

Johann Georg Wille, 1761

Brown wash drawing of a thatched rustic house with a wooden barrel, firewood, and a seated woman in a bonnet.

A Rustic House in the Grand Rue at Sceaux-Les-Chartreux

Johann Georg Wille, 1766

Brown wash drawing of a rocky landscape with overgrown ruins, a path, and two seated children at lower right.

Two Children Seated near Overgrown Ruins

Johann Georg Wille, 1758

Pencil and red chalk portrait of a woman in a frilled dormeuse cap with red rosettes, against hatched background.

A Lady Wearing a Dormeuse Cap

Nicolaes Muys, 1770

Graphite drawing of a bearded saint raising his hand before kneeling figures, a child on the ground, and a crowd with classic

Saint Zenobius Resuscitating a Child

Ciro Ferri, 1665

Pencil drawing of a bearded faun with a leafy wreath, seated with one arm raised, on grey-tan paper.

Faun Reclining

Ciro Ferri, 1660