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National Gallery of Art

25,760 works

Etching of a Friesland ketch and a Gelderse ketch on calm water, with sails, rigging and a rowboat below.

A Friesland Ketch and a Gelderse Ketch

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of two Dutch peat barges with sails on calm water, with figures working aboard and a distant shoreline.

A "Friesland" Peatpot, and a "Dijnopschuit" or "Veense" Peatpot

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of Amsterdam's Rokin canal with moored sailing ships, gabled houses, an arched bridge and the Bourse tower.

The Rokin and the Bourse in Amsterdam

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of two lighter boats on calm water, one with barrel cargo and one with a tall mast, under a cloudy sky.

An Amsterdam Lighter and a Wieringer Lighter

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of a loaded flat barge and a sailing boat on calm water, with distant sails and clouds under a broad sky.

A "Vlotschuit" and a "Schietschuit"

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of night sailing barges on calm water with a distant town and tower under a cloudy sky.

The Night-Boats to The Hague, Delft, and Amsterdam

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of men hauling a sailing boat along a canal past gabled houses, a waterwheel and trees.

The "Overtoom" (Portage) at Amsterdam

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of a canal with a passenger barge, a horse on the towpath, figures, trees, and a windmill on the far bank.

The Haarlem "Trekschuiten"

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of skaters and a horse sledge on a frozen canal before large houses, a windmill at left and a sailing boat.

Winter Scene in the Blockhouses in Amsterdam

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of three sailing boats tossed by rough waves under a cloudy sky, with a caption reading Schol-Schuÿties, of Pinckies.

"Scholshuiten" or "Pinken"

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of a waterwheel dredger with workers and small boats on a waterway, with sailing ships and wooden pilings in the dist

A Dredger and Mudhoppers

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of a harbor with a raft, huts, workers, a moored sailing boat, and a ship under construction in the distance.

A Raft and a "Onderlegger"

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Etching of two moored flat-bottomed boats, one with figures and a smoking chimney, under a cloudy sky.

Two "Overlanders" or Houseboats

Reinier Nooms, c. 1652/1654

Open book pages with two woodcuts of skeletal Death confronting a nobleman and an old man, with Latin verses below.

Imagines Mortis (Images of Death)

Hans Lützelburger after Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1526; published 1545

Neoclassical wall design with Venus and Adonis in the centre, flanked by two figures and classical ornament in blue and pink

Elaborate Wall Decorations with Venus and Adonis

Tommaso Bigatti, c. 1800

Neoclassical wall design with a central panel of a draped woman and cherub in a landscape, flanked by oval medallions of drap

Elaborate Wall Decoration with Endymion and Hebe

Tommaso Bigatti, c. 1800

Watercolor of ruined brick arches framing a beached sailing ship and figures on a shore, with hills and sea beyond.

View through the Temple of Venus, Baia

Giacinto Gigante, 1860s?

Engraving of three ships between two Non Plus Ultra columns on rocky cliffs, with a decorative cartouche and inscription belo

The Seconda Macchina for the Chinea of 1729: The Ships of the Ostend Company and Trieste Company at the Pillars of He…

after Gabriele Valvassori Filippo Vasconi, 1729

Head Studies

Louis Anquetin, 1890s?

Portrait of a Man

Henry Bonaventure Monnier, 1849

Drawing of sleeping nude bacchantes with grapes and wine vessel in a forest, with a cupid and satyrs above.

Sleeping Bacchantes

after François Boucher Jacques Charlier, 3rd quarter of the 18th century

Etching of a large oak where a man lifts a small child toward a high branch, with rocky ground and distant mountains.

The Rescue of the Infant Oedipus

Salvator Rosa, 1663

Pen and brown wash drawing of Juno seated on clouds with a small winged child beside her, within a ruled border.

Juno Seated on the Clouds

Luigi Brenta, early 19th century

Title page engraving of a fox walking before a city skyline with a tall tower and church domes.

Bertoldo con Bertoldino e Cacasenno

after Giuseppe Maria Crespi Ludovico Mattioli, 1736

Brown ink and wash drawing of a wooded landscape with a group of draped figures gathered at the lower right.

Diana and Her Companions in a Landscape

Luigi Brenta, early 19th century

Watercolor drawing of two armored knights jousting on horseback, one horse in green caparison, a broken lance on the ground.

German Joust of Peace

Unknown artist, c.1512-1515

Pen and watercolor drawing of two armored jousting knights on horseback, with broken lances and striped green and brown capar

Mixed Jousts of War and Peace

Unknown artist, c.1512-1515

Watercolor drawing of two armored knights jousting on horseback, one in red and grey, one in green, with broken lances.

German Joust of Peace in High Saddles

Unknown artist, c.1512-1515

Pen and watercolor drawing of a green-clad armored knight beside a horse with a fallen rider in striped cloth.

Joust of Peace in Leg Armor

Unknown artist, c.1512-1515

Colored drawing of two armored knights jousting on striped horses, one knight fallen, with spectators watching from a wooden

Mock Joust of War with Fixed Shields

Unknown artist, c.1512-1515