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National Gallery of Art

25,670 works

Oval painting of God the Father on clouds holding a globe, surrounded by angels and cherubs in a golden sky.

God the Father

Unknown artist, after 1664

Painting of the Virgin Mary in a blue mantle with gold trim holding the nude infant Christ against a dark background.

Madonna and Child

Dirck Bouts, c. 1465

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

Half-length portrait of a man with white curled hair in a dark coat and white cravat against a brown background.

Thomas Jefferson

Gilbert Stuart, c. 1821

Painting of a crowded New York street with skyscrapers, pedestrians, a horse-drawn wagon, and a green streetcar.

New York

George Bellows, 1911

Oil portrait of an elderly bearded man in a dark coat and white collar against a dark grey background.

George Cotton Smith

Robert Henri, 1908

Oil portrait of an elderly woman with white hair in a black dress and brooch, against a dark brushed background.

Elizabeth Virginia Laning Bradner Smith (Mrs. George Cotton Smith)

Robert Henri, 1908

Oil portrait of a man with shoulder-length light hair, white collar and dark coat, set in an oval vignette.

John Eldred

John Riley, c. 1670/1680

Painting of two hunters with a dog in a small boat on a marsh, framed by dead trees and autumn foliage.

Hunting in the Pontine Marshes

Horace Vernet, 1833

Painting of an angel expelling a man and woman from Paradise under a shaft of light, with a serpent and animals in the foregr

The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise

Benjamin West, 1791

Painting of a sunlit rock arch on Capri above calm blue sea, with sea stacks and distant coastline.

Natural Arch at Capri

William Stanley Haseltine, 1871

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

Dark still life with a fruit basket, melon, fish, frog, songbirds, and a nest with eggs beside hibiscus flowers.

Still Life with Fruit, Fish, and a Nest

Abraham Mignon, c. 1675

Painting of forested mountains in misty valley at sunrise, with gnarled trees and rocks in the foreground.

Sunrise in the Catskills

Thomas Cole, 1826

Expressive painting of a green and orange building with a red roof, a fence and a tree beneath a bright blue sky.

Dance Hall Bellevue [obverse]

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1909/1910

Expressive painting of a red and yellow interior with a woman and older man on stairs and a seated man in a chair.

The Visit - Couple and Newcomer

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1922

Painting of a runaway chariot with rearing horses falling through clouds, surrounded by winged figures and falling nude forms

The Fall of Phaeton

Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1604/1605, probably reworked c. 1606/1608

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

Still life painting of apples and pears in a white pierced basket with grapes and vine leaves on a table.

Fruit Still Life with Chinese Export Basket

James Peale, 1824

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

Painting of a ruined church with broken stone arches on a grassy hill, with sandbags, rubble and roof tiles in the foreground

The Church of Souain

Félix Vallotton, 1917

Painting of dark fishing boats on a pebble beach, figures in blue, grassy cliffs and houses under a cloudy sky.

Sainte-Adresse

Claude Monet, 1867

Painting of a blue vase with a loose bouquet of red, orange, pink and yellow flowers on a pale background.

Large Vase with Flowers

Odilon Redon, c. 1912

Painting of riders, cattle and goats on a shore beside moored ships and a tall cliff topped with a tower under a cloudy sky.

View of an Italian Port

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem, early 1660s

Painting of a white sailboat on rippling water before a yellow lattice drawbridge and railroad trestle under a pale sky.

Drawbridge - Long Branch R. R.

Theodore Robinson, 1894

Painting of a sunlit riverside mill with a chimney, trees, a stone bridge and distant hills under a pale blue sky.

U.S. Thread Company Mills, Willimantic, Connecticut

J. Alden Weir, c. 1893/1897

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 dancer in a pink skirt turning on a stage, with performers and seated audience in colorful costumes behind her.

Marcelle Lender Dancing the Bolero in "Chilpéric"

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1895-1896

Painting of the dead Christ mourned by the Virgin, Mary Magdalene and other figures, with a crown of thorns on the ground.

Lamentation

Palma il Giovane, c. 1620

Painting of a bearded man in black costume and beret with white lace collar, hand on hip, coat of arms at upper right.

Portrait of a Member of the Quaratesi Family

Unknown artist, 1561