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National Gallery of Art

25,670 works

Still life painting of two pears, wine glasses and a bottle on a white tablecloth against a dark background.

Two Pears on a Tabletop

Sanford Robinson Gifford, c. 1866

Painting of Roman ruins, a brick bell tower and rooftops under a cloudy sky, with a lone figure on a grassy path.

View of the Cloaca Maxima, Rome

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1814

Still life painting of a tied bundle of asparagus and red currants on a stone ledge against a dark background.

Still Life with Asparagus and Red Currants

Adriaen Coorte, 1696

Painting of a harvest field with haystacks, willow trees, grazing cattle, and a rain shower under clouds over a distant ridge

Harvest Scene in the Delaware Valley

George Inness, 1867

Man in red cap and yellow shirt smoking a pipe, seated on barrels beside a shed at dusk.

Mississippi Boatman

George Caleb Bingham, 1850

Calm river reflecting a wooded hill, with a fisherman on a sandy bank beneath trees in the right foreground.

Mount Tom

Thomas Charles Farrer, 1865

Marsh landscape with a haystack, winding creek, grazing cows, a gnarled tree, and clouds tinted pink under a green sky.

Sunlight and Shadow: The Newbury Marshes

Martin Johnson Heade, c. 1871/1875

Painting of women knitting and working outside a stone cottage, with two children seated on wooden steps in the foreground.

Sparrow Hall

Winslow Homer, c. 1881-1882

Still life of worn books and loose papers heaped in a wooden crate against a pale wall.

Take Your Choice

John Frederick Peto, 1885

Painting of a seated man on a rocky ridge overlooking hazy hills and a distant sea under a pale pink sky.

Mount Desert Island, Maine

Jervis McEntee, 1864

Boy playing violin on a forest path for seated children in straw hats, with a cabin and autumn trees behind.

His First Appearance in Public

Charles Caleb Ward, 1870

Painting of a moored boat on calm water beside a reddish rock outcrop and grassy headland under a pale sky.

Brace's Rock, Eastern Point, Gloucester

Fitz Henry Lane, c. 1864

Panoramic oil landscape of a valley with a lake, poplar trees, rolling hills, and a stone building with a bell tower in the f

Panoramic Landscape near the River Moselle

Théodore Rousseau, c. 1830

Painting of patchwork fields sloping toward a lake, with blue mountains and a clear sky beyond.

Swiss Landscape

Alexandre Calame, c. 1830

Autumn forest scene with a dirt path, red-leaved trees, large boulders, and a shallow stream with ferns in the foreground.

October

William Trost Richards, 1863

Painting of a kneeling woman receiving communion from an elderly man as angels and cherubs attend her in the clouds.

The Last Communion of Saint Mary of Egypt

Sebastiano Ricci, c. 1695

Painting of a grounded three-masted ship on a stormy shore at sunset, with waves breaking and debris on the sand.

The Stranded Ship

Asher Brown Durand, 1844

Painting of a blue and white vase holding peonies, roses, irises and fuchsia against a dark background.

Vase of Flowers

George Cochran Lambdin, 1875

Young man in a studio holding a palette and brushes at an easel, glancing toward the viewer, with a sketch on the wall.

Self-Portrait in the Studio

Gillis van Tilborgh the Younger, c. 1645

Still life of a white goose, hare and game birds before a classical garden with statues and a distant estate.

Still Life with Goose and Game before a Country Estate

Jan Weenix, c. 1685

Half-length portrait of a young man in a blue coat with gold braid and lace cuffs against a dark background.

Portrait of a Gentleman

Pompeo Batoni, c. 1762

Painting of a crowd under trees listening to a preacher with a staff and sheep, soldiers and a white horse nearby, landscape

Saint John the Baptist Preaching

Willem Reuter, c. 1665

Painting of three pears and a green apple resting on a white cloth against a warm brown background.

Three Pears and an Apple

David Johnson, 1857

Loose painting of a sunlit Cairo courtyard with a patterned stone floor, pale arches and a dark doorway.

Pavement, Cairo

John Singer Sargent, 1891

Painting of clustered pears on branches with green leaves and wasps feeding on one fruit against a blue sky.

Ripening Pears

Joseph Decker, c. 1884/1885

Dark storm over a valley with a commanding figure on a cliff, a sunbeam on a walled city, and armies fighting below.

Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon

John Martin, 1816

Painting of a dark forest with gnarled trees, a stream, hunting dogs and riders on horseback at the right.

Departure for the Hunt in the Pontine Marshes

Horace Vernet, 1833

Painting of a sandy beach with rolling surf, a rock outcrop, wading figures, and a dog under a cloudy sky.

Second Beach, Newport

Worthington Whittredge, c. 1878/1880

Snowy northern landscape with dunes, a frozen lake, distant hills, and two small figures on a ridge under a grey-blue sky.

Northern Landscape, Spring

Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1825

Interior of a Gothic church with tall columns, arches, a brass chandelier, and small figures in dark clothing on the stone fl

The Interior of the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam

Emanuel de Witte, c. 1660