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National Gallery of Art

5,752 works

Sepia drawing of imagined Roman ruins with a triumphal arch, columns, a domed building, and travelers on a road.

A Capriccio View of Roman Ruins along the Tiber

Jacob van der Ulft

Brown ink and wash drawing of a fortified town with a gateway, soldiers, sailing boats and horsemen on a shoreline.

A Coastal Scene with a Fortified Town

Jacob van der Ulft, 1670

Pen and brown ink drawing with red chalk of figures lowering Christ's body from the cross using ladders.

The Deposition

Thomas Blanchet, 1670

Brown wash drawing of a shaded woodland river with a leaning tree, rocks, and a small fisherman standing by the water.

A Woodland River with a Fisherman

Head of a Boy

Black chalk sketches of two standing women in long draped garments on a tan paper ground.

Two Studies of a Standing Woman

Unknown artist, early 17th century

Black chalk and white highlight study of a standing female nude with arms raised overhead on blue-grey paper.

Study of a Female Nude

Alessandro Casolani

Chalk study on grey paper with several figures: a bearded man in a turban, a nude torso, a raised arm, and a foot.

Study for Miraculous Draught of Fishes (?)

Pen and ink drawing of a martyrdom scene with soldiers, a mounted rider, a hilltop group, and a distant town.

The Martyrdom of Saint Alexander of Bergamo

Lorenzo Lotto, c. 1524

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated nude man looking upward, with crucifixion scene and angels in background.

The Good Thief

Karel van Mander I

Brown ink and wash landscape with a wooden bridge, ruined walls, tall trees and small figures on a path under clouds.

Landscape with Bridge and Ruins in Background

Pieter Dircksz Santvoort

Brown ink drawing of God the Father on clouds with angels playing harp and lute and putti below.

God the Father and Angels on Clouds

Raffaello Motta

Study for "The Four Doctors of the Church"

Domenico Beccafumi

Drawing of a Japanese interior with a seated artist, a woman holding flowers, a child, and hanging scrolls on the walls.

Japanese Artist at Work

Adolph Menzel, 1886

Brown ink and blue wash drawing of soldiers and women struggling beneath classical columns in a colonnade.

Massacre of the Innocents [recto]

called Bertoia Jacopo Zanguidi

Pen and wash drawing of a distant town skyline with church towers and a windmill across an open landscape.

View of Mons, Belgium

Red chalk and wash drawing of a kneeling bishop in mitre and robes reading a book at a lectern.

Seated Bishop

Abraham Bloemaert, c. 1620 - 1630

Pen and ink drawing of a walled town with towers beneath mountains, with hills and trees in the foreground.

View of Fondi

Attributed to Anonymous Fabriczy, second half 16th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of Saint Lawrence on a grill surrounded by executioners and crowds, with angels above in an arched

The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

Luca Cambiaso, 1581

Brown ink drawing of Galatea in a shell chariot drawn by dolphins, with cupids above and sea figures around her.

The Triumph of Galatea

Girolamo da Treviso the Younger, 1535

Pen and wash drawing of a nude saint on a gridiron over flames, with an angel descending above a crowd and a horse.

The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

Daniel Seiter, 1685

Brown ink and wash drawing of men raising a crucified figure on a cross, with a ladder, a horseman, and a crowd.

The Raising of the Cross

Brown wash drawing of a kneeling friar holding the Christ child, with putti and clouds above in radiating light.

Saint Anthony of Padua

Pen and wash drawing of soldiers attacking women and children in a classical city square with columns and a hillside town.

Massacre of the Innocents

Bernard Picart, 1714

Drawing of a wooded ravine with tall trees, rocky banks and a stream, in grey wash on tan paper.

Landscape with a Wooded Ravine

Anthonie Waterloo

Brown ink drawing of Minerva with musicians and muses below and allegorical figures on clouds above, by Hans Speckaert.

Allegory of Minerva as the Head of the Muses

Hans Speckaert, in or before 1575

Red chalk drawing of a man seen from behind, wearing a turban and draped cloth, with detailed muscular anatomy.

A Man Seen from Behind [recto]

Taddeo Zuccari, c. 1555

Head of Saint Francis

Guido Reni, before c. 1632

Pen and ink drawing of mourners lowering a body into a rocky tomb, with three crosses on a distant hill.

The Entombment

Albrecht Dürer, 1504

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of a hound chasing a hare leaping across the sheet.

A Hound Chasing a Hare

Benozzo Gozzoli, 1455