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National Gallery of Art

1,541 works

Loose impressionist painting of a blue river with a white sailboat, green trees on a hill, and a pale blue sky.

The Blue River

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1890/1900

Painting of a sunlit forest with moss-covered trees, a small stream, fallen logs, and distant hazy mountains.

Forest in the Morning Light

Asher Brown Durand, c. 1855

Painting of a wooded landscape with travelers resting on a sandy path beneath large trees and a cloudy sky.

Wooded Landscape with Travelers

Adam Pynacker, late 1640s

Dense tropical jungle with green palms, red foliage, white lilies, and several monkeys in the trees and on the ground.

Tropical Forest with Monkeys

Henri Rousseau, 1910

Painting of rolling green and pink fields with white farmhouses on a hill and a lone figure standing in the foreground.

Landscape at Le Pouldu

Paul Gauguin, 1890

Three 18th-century men in a landscape under a tree, with a dog, overlooking a river with sailing ships and a castle.

Arthur Holdsworth Conversing with Thomas Taylor and Captain Stancombe by the River Dart

Arthur Devis, 1757

Landscape painting of a lake framed by wooded hills, with figures on a grassy foreground slope and a distant plain.

Lake Albano

Richard Wilson, 1762

Painting of a hilltop castle above cliffs and a lake, with trees, a figure on a path, and distant mountains under cloudy sky.

Italian Landscape

Joseph Wright of Derby, 1790

Painting of a windswept road with a leaning bare tree, broken wooden gate, dunes, and small figures under cloudy sky.

Landscape with Open Gate

Moulin, c. 1630/1635

Painting of cattle resting by a river under a cloudy sky, with a rider and figures on a hill at right and a sailboat at left.

River Landscape with Cows

Aelbert Cuyp, 1645/1650

Landscape with ruined tower, cattle, goats and deer by a fountain, with a herdsman and birds under a blue sky.

Landscape with the Flight into Egypt

Roelant Savery, 1624

Night landscape with a moonlit canal, stone bridge, distant town with church tower, and dark trees on the right.

Moonlit Landscape with Bridge

Aert van der Neer, probably 1648/1650

Painting of a turquoise alpine lake below snow-capped mountains, with a village, church steeple, and trees in the foreground.

Lake Lucerne

Albert Bierstadt, 1858

Two haloed saints in an arched panel: one in dark robes reads a book, the other in a brown habit holds an IHS disc.

Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint Bernardino of Siena

Jacopo Bellini, 1459

Painting of a pastoral river scene with cows at the water's edge, tall trees, distant mountains, and a soft cloudy sky.

Pastoral Landscape

Asher Brown Durand, 1861

Painting of rolling farmland with tall poplars, a village, and farmers working under a partly cloudy blue sky.

Landscape at Les Pâtis, Pontoise

Camille Pissarro, 1868

Loose oil painting of gnarled olive tree roots and green undergrowth over sunlit dry earth and pale rocks.

Wild Olive Tree Roots, Valldemosa, Majorca

John Singer Sargent, 1908

Painting of a hilltop town above a calm lake at sunset, framed by a large tree on the left.

View of Lake Nemi

Jules Coignet, 1843

Painting of a shadowy forest with a painter at an easel, a dog, large rocks, and a small waterfall over a stream.

Forest Interior with a Painter, Civita Castellana

André Giroux, 1825/1830

Painting of riders and pack animals on a trail by a river, with sunlit red and white cliffs under a glowing sky.

Green River Cliffs, Wyoming

Thomas Moran, 1881

Painting of a white plow horse in a harness walking across a sandy field under a pale sky, with a plow behind it.

A Plow Horse in a Field

Stanislas Lépine, 1870/1874

Painting of a waterfall tumbling over rocks in a shadowy forest, framed by overhanging tree branches and green foliage.

Forest Interior with a Waterfall, Papigno

André Giroux, 1825/1830

Two horses stand in a grassy meadow overlooking a river with steamboats, barges, and farm buildings under a pale sky.

Horses in a Meadow

Edgar Degas, 1871

Painting of green and ochre fields rising to a ridge with trees under a blue sky with white clouds.

Landscape of the Ile-de-France

Edouard Vuillard, c. 1894

Painting of a river valley with poplars, grazing sheep, and a village church on a green hilltop under a pale sky.

Landscape in Auvergne

Henri Harpignies, 1870

Oil sketch of dark trees on a hillside with distant mountains and clouds glowing pink and gold at sunset.

Mountain Landscape at Sunset

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1765

Painting of a stone arch bridge over a rocky mountain stream, with wooded cliffs and wooden houses beside it.

Mountain Stream in the Auvergne

Théodore Rousseau, 1830

Painting of cattle resting and herdsmen on horseback overlooking a wide plain with a distant town under a cloudy sky.

Landscape with Herdsmen

Aelbert Cuyp, mid 1650s

Painting of a shattered fallen tree trunk with splintered wood and broken branches on a forest floor.

Fallen Tree

Alexandre Calame, 1839/1845

Evening river scene with a windmill, sailboats and rowboats under a dark cloudy sky with glowing light on the water.

River Scene with Windmill and Boats, Evening

Anthonie van Borssom, c. 1645