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National Gallery of Art

25,761 works

Watercolor of a seated figure in red overlooking a calm inlet toward a distant town with church spires and masts.

New Bedford, Massachusetts

William Allen Wall, 1860-1870

Pencil sketch of a seated man giving a fencing lesson to a boy in a stone interior, with a woman and skull-backed chair at ri

The Fencing Lesson [recto]

Richard Caton Woodville, c. 1847-1849

Daumier lithograph of a huge plumed warrior with a sword facing a small figure with a sling before tents.

David et Goliath

Honoré Daumier, 1854

Watercolor of a white country house framed by large trees, with a figure in a red coat on a dirt path.

Cloetis

William Brenton Boggs, c. 1855

Pencil drawing of a river with a multi-arched stone bridge, rocky banks, horses and figures, and a hillside town beyond.

St. Cloud

after John Frederick Kensett Anonymous, 1843

Pencil sketch of covered cannon on wheeled carriages with wagons at left and right, drawn by John Singer Sargent in 1918.

Cannon Trailers, France

John Singer Sargent, 1918

Pencil and wash sketch of an Italian villa with cypress trees on a hillside, with a bare tree at the left edge.

Italian Villa [recto]

John Singer Sargent, 1870-1872

Study drawing of a winged female nude seated beside a large sphere and open book, in grey chalk on green paper.

Study for "The Eclipse of the Sun by the Moon"

Elihu Vedder, 1892

Grey wash drawing of a chaotic city street with carriages, a crowd, fallen figures, and classical buildings.

New York - Street Scene

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1859-1868

Pencil study of a standing man carrying a sack on his shoulders, with grid lines and a faint second figure at left.

Study for "Pêcheurs de la mer du Nord" (Study for "Fishermen of the North Sea")

Eugène Vail, c. 1893

Pencil and wash drawing of leafless trees on a misty hillside with a small dog in the lower left foreground.

The First Snowfall

Arthur Bowen Davies, c. 1877-1887

Daumier lithograph of a caricatured man in a cloak leaving a sign reading Valachie, watched by a thin man and a small soldier

Quittant le valachie

Honoré Daumier, 1854

Grey wash drawing of a tooth extraction: a man in a feathered hat grips another man's head while a smiling onlooker watches.

Tooth Extraction

William Ranney, 1840s-1850s

Pencil and watercolor drawing of Gothic church ruins with tracery windows, a tree, and stone steps on a rocky slope.

Cathedral Ruins, Bacharach

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1841

Nude Study

William P. Babcock, 1860s-1870s

Charcoal drawing of a nude woman with raised arms beside a seated cherub holding a mirror, set against a shaded forest.

Nude with Cherub Holding a Mirror

William P. Babcock, 1860s-1870s

Charcoal drawing of a nude woman holding a rose while a winged cupid embraces her from behind.

Nude with Cupid

William P. Babcock, 1860s-1870s

Pencil study of two clusters of birch branches with small leaves on tan paper, inscribed Catskill Mountains 1856.

Birch Boughs, Catskill Mountains

John William Casilear, 1856

Pencil and white chalk drawing of a lake with a church steeple, village, and snow-capped mountains behind it.

Lake of Brienz

John William Casilear, late 19th century

Pencil sketch of rolling mountains with pine trees in the foreground and two small figures on a rocky ledge.

Mountain Landscape

John William Casilear, late 19th century

Pencil sketch of two figures embracing, one seated in flowing drapery, with loose hatched shading on pale paper.

An Intimate Concert

Henry Fuseli, 1814

Pen and brown wash drawing of a tiered classical tomb elevation with relief panels and statues, above a ground plan.

An Imperial Tomb: Elevation and Ground Plan

Circle of Antonio da Sangallo, c. 1530

Charcoal drawing of a standing nude figure with long hair, arms crossed, over a faint grid on tan paper.

A Standing Male Nude

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, c. 1879

Pen and wash drawing of the Virgin and Child enthroned, with a kneeling bishop and saint adoring them and cherubs above.

The Virgin and Child Enthroned, Adored by Saints

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, 1790s(?)

Grey wash drawing of a muscular nude man on a rock, arm raised defiantly toward a dark sky, with billowing drapery behind.

Satan Defying the Powers of Heaven

Henry Fuseli, late 1790s

Luisa Carmignani, the Artist's Mother-in-Law

Francesco Paolo Michetti, c. 1881

Watercolor of a rustic cottage with tall chimneys, a wooden fence, and a tree, by Cornelius Varley, 1806.

A House, West Humble Lane, Norbury, Surrey

Cornelius Varley, 1806

Graphite and white chalk drawing on blue paper of a robed figure among mocking soldiers, one raising a crown of thorns.

The Mocking of Christ

Victor-François-Eloi Biennourry, 1852

Watercolor portrait of a moustached man in a red fez and embroidered jacket against a pale background.

Moustachioed Slav in Belgrade

Théodore Valério, 1854

Engraving of a kneeling friar receiving light from a winged seraph above, with a companion reclining in the foreground among

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

after Federico Barocci Francesco Villamena, 1597