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National Gallery of Art

25,761 works

Pen and ink study of two embracing figures in period dress, with smaller sketches and handwritten notes on pale paper.

Study for "The Return of King Friedrich II from Küstrin"

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, c. 1850s

Pencil sketch of a crowd of bearded men in seventeenth-century hats and cloaks, finished at left and faint toward right.

Men in Seventeenth-Century Costumes [recto]

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, c. 1850s

Sketch of the Ponte Vecchio over the Arno with buildings, a tower and a dome behind it, drawn in soft grey tones.

Ponte Vecchio, Florence [recto]

John Singer Sargent, 1870-1872

Pencil sketch of a monastery with a bell tower and cypress trees on a hillside under a soft sky.

Monastery [recto]

John Singer Sargent, 1870-1872

Pencil sketch of a valley village below steep mountains, with grazing animals in the foreground and a dated inscription.

Weser

John William Casilear, 1842

Graphite sketch of a seated man in a pith helmet looking over a rolling landscape with distant hills and trees.

Study for "White Mountains from North Conway, New Hampshire" [recto]

David Johnson, 1851

Engraved emblem of a seated allegorical woman with an olive branch, flag, and shield, framed by a chain of stars.

Emblem of the United States of America

Samuel A. Harris, 1804

Horse

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, c. 1860s

Lithograph of a caricatured man sewing small trophies beside hanging flags and banners, by Honoré Daumier, 1854.

En train de ...confectionner quelques

Honoré Daumier, 1854

Pencil studies of a boy in a wide-brimmed hat seated on a wooden ladder, with faint grid lines beneath.

Studies of a Boy on a Ladder

James Goodwyn Clonney, c. 1840-1850

Grey wash drawing of a smiling man peering around a doorway, body partly hidden, on a narrow vertical sheet.

Man at a Doorway

James Goodwyn Clonney, c. 1840-1850

Graphite sketch of large oak trees in a field, with a seated figure at the trunk and a standing man with a staff at left.

By the Old Oak Trees

James Goodwyn Clonney, 1839

Watercolor of a country road with a horse cart, a leaning tree, and hazy blue mountains beyond a village.

A Gleamy Effect - Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania

George Harvey, 1835-1840

Brown leather album cover with gold lettering reading Album of Virginia, illustrated by Ed. Beyer, 1858.

Album of Virginia

Edward Beyer, 1857-1858

Daumier caricature of a wild-haired man descending by parachute over a city, his top hat floating away from him.

Une Descente en parachute

Honoré Daumier, 1852

Watercolor sketch of a stone palazzo balustrade and arched doorway with a bell tower and trees behind, in Genoa.

Glimpse of the Palazzo Doria, Genova

Marietta Minnigerode Andrews, 1892

Pen and ink sketch of a bearded peasant man in a cap leaning on a long pole against hatched shadows.

Peasant

attributed to Edward Moran, c. 1878

Watercolor and pencil study of a weathered wooden well, two wooden troughs, planks and sketched tools on tan paper.

Studies of a Well and Wooden Trough

Jr Enoch Wood Perry, c. 1870-1900

Watercolor of an elephant with riders in a howdah turning away from a snarling tiger on an open grassy plain.

The Tiger Hunt

Antoine-Louis Barye, c. 1836

Brown ink and white heightened drawing of a bearded man in a draped robe raising a staff, with a faint serpent sketch at left

Aaron Converting His Staff into a Serpent

Robert Walter Weir, c. 1860s

Brown and white drawing of soldiers charging with bayonets, a flag bearer at center, and fallen soldiers in the foreground.

Battle Charge

Hammat Billings, 1865-1874

Pen and ink drawing of a woman in a flowing dress by water among reeds, with a horse head and a man in the background.

Gretchen Murdering Her Child

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1852

Charcoal study of a reclining man's legs and foot with separate studies of hands on pale paper.

Studies for "Judgment"

John Singer Sargent, 1903-1916

Title page of an 1851 portfolio, with ornate calligraphic flourishes framing the words The War Between the United States and

The War Between the United States and Mexico

Carl Nebel and George Wilkins Kendall, 1851

Graphite and chalk sketch of a wooded valley with tall trees and an open field, on tan paper, dated 1852.

Sherberne Valley

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1852

Daumier lithograph of top-hatted spectators at a salon, with a young woman in a plaid shawl and a caption below.

Laisse-moi regarder encore ... papa!

Honoré Daumier, 1852

Title page of Frank H. Norton's Illustrated Historical Register of the Centennial Exhibition and Exposition Universelle, 1879

Illustrated Historical Register of the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876, and of the Exposition Universelle,…

Frank H. Norton, 1879

Front cover of a grey-green cloth-bound volume lettered in gold: Prang's Progressive Proofs, Collection William T. Walters, 1

Prang's Progressive Proofs

Louis Prang, 1895

Brown leather book cover with gold foliate border and gold lettering reading American Artist Life.

Book of the Artists. American Artist Life, Comprising Biographical and Critical Sketches of American Artists: Precede…

Henry Theodore Tuckerman, 1867

Etching of two steamboats with tall smokestacks moored by a riverbank, with a bridge and buildings in the background.

Bateaux sur la Seine