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National Gallery of Art

25,760 works

Brown ink and wash sketch of several standing female figures in varied poses, studies by William Etty.

Studies for Joan of Arc

William Etty, 1843/1847

Pen and brown ink elevation drawing of a classical building with colonnade, statues in niches, and a domed clock tower.

Architectural Study

Giuseppe Valeriani, mid-18th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a landscape with an arched stone bridge, a horseback rider, figures, trees, and distant villa b

Landscape with a Bridge

Francesco Zuccarelli, mid-18th century

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded man in a robe speaking with a woman leaning over a round stone well under a swirling sky.

Rebecca at the Well

after Luca Cambiaso Anonymous, 17th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of armored horsemen fighting in a dense battle, with rearing horses and fallen soldiers.

A Battle on Horseback

Domenico Campagnola, 1510s

Pen and brown wash drawing of a crowned ruler on a throne with women and courtiers approaching in an arched hall.

Esther before Ahasuerus

Giovanni Guerra, late 16th century

Charcoal drawing of a woman washing at a woodland stream beside a fence and cottage, framed by tall trees.

Landscape with a Washerwoman

Adolph Menzel, c. 1890

Engraved landscape of a kneeling penitent before a rocky cave, with a skull, book and hourglass in the foreground.

Landscape with Penitent Saints

Veronese 16th Century, 16th Century

Engraved landscape with twisted trees, rocks, a figure by water, and a distant village and mountains under clouds.

Narcissus

Etienne Dupérac, late 16th century

Etching of Saint Roch with a halo giving alms to a crowd of poor figures beneath colonnaded arches.

Saint Roch Distributing Alms

after Annibale Carracci Guido Reni, 1610

Engraved sheet of five panels with a central bearded male head and mythological figures in surrounding scenes.

The Obsequies of Agostino Carracci: First Plate

Guido Reni, after Francesco Brizio, Giacomo Cavedone, Agostino Carracci, and Alessandro Albino, 1603

Engraving with five framed allegorical scenes showing winged figures, mourners, a haloed figure and clouds.

The Obsequies of Agostino Carracci: Second Plate

Guido Reni, after Ippolito Ferrantino, G. B. Bertusi, Sebastiano Rozali, Lucio Massai, and G. B. Busi, 1603

Engraved sheet with six small allegorical scenes and a central head, with handwritten attribution notes in blue ink below.

The Obsequies of Agostino Carracci: Third Plate

Guido Reni, after Giulio Cesare Parigino, after Lorenzo Garbieri, Giovanni Luigi Valesio, Aurelio Bonelli, Lodovico Carracci, and Lorenzo Garbieri, 1603

Engraving of Christ at a well speaking with the Samaritan woman, disciples nearby, with a town and trees in the background.

Christ and the Samaritan Woman

after Annibale Carracci Francesco Brizio, 1595 (published 1610)

Etching of a winged guardian angel pointing upward while leading a small child across a rocky landscape.

Guardian Angel

Simone Cantarini, 1640s

Etching of the Circumcision of Christ: Mary holds the infant on a table as a priest works, with putti and a caged dove below.

The Circumcision of Christ

Bartolomeo Biscaino, 1650/1657

Etching of the dead Christ supported by two angels in an oval frame, with a crown of thorns on the ground.

The Body of Christ

Giuseppe Diamantini, late 17th century

Etching of Saint Jerome seated beside a tree with a cross and lion, while three putti play near the lion.

Saint Jerome

Pietro Testa, 1631/1637

Etching of a staff-bearing man beside a large urn, with a cherub, seated figures, books and a ruined column in the background

Temporalis Aeternitas [Second Version]

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1655

Etching of draped figures gathered before a stone tomb inscribed Temporalis Aeternitas, with classical sculpture and ruins ar

Temporalis Aeternitas

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1645

Etching of a woman and boy beside a kneeling man at a stone base, with ruins, carved reliefs and foliage behind.

Theseus Finding Aegeus' Arms

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, c. 1645

Etching of an allegorical scene with a bearded man pointing at a pedestal, an urn, garlands, a seated woman, and a child.

Temporalis Aeternitas [Second Version]

after Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione Anonymous, late 17th century

Etching of a woman holding a drinking child beside a bending man and a dog, with resting peasants and a stone wall nearby.

A Drinking Child with Resting Peasants

Sébastien Bourdon, 1636/1640

Etching of the Holy Family on an arch with two infants, a lamb, an elderly man with a staff, and classical ruins.

Holy Family Seated on an Arch

Sébastien Bourdon, 1642/1652

Etching of veiled women and a robed priest performing a sacrifice at an altar in a colonnaded temple interior.

Antique Sacrifice

Bernhard Rode, 1752

Etching of a wooded river landscape with two hunters and dogs at right, a duck on the water, and distant riders.

Landscape with Duck Hunters

after Jacques Fouquières Jean Morin, mid-17th century

Plate of the moon's southeast lunar surface with craters near Tycho, shown as a framed photograph beside a stippled drawing o

Our Satellite. A Selenography According to The Present State of Science

Dr. A. Le Vengeur d'Orsan, 1862

Hoche, Joubert, and Ossian [Ossian Receiving the Shades of French Heroes]

after Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson Hyacinthe-Louis-Victor-Jean-Baptiste Aubry-Lecomte, 1821

Engraved landscape with a long-haired penitent figure beside a wooden cross, rocky cave, stream and dense trees.

Landscape with a Penitent Magdalene

after Girolamo Muziano Cornelis Cort, 1573

Loose pencil sketch of a head with swirling hair and handwritten name inscriptions along the left edge.

Frank Burty Haviland

Amedeo Modigliani, 1915