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National Gallery of Art

5,752 works

Charcoal study of a woman with one arm raised behind her head, draped fabric across her torso, on tan paper.

Study of a Woman

Adolph Menzel, c. 1875/1890

Watercolor of a grassy rocky landscape with cliffs, boulders, grazing sheep, a stone structure and a hazy sky.

Paradise, Newport

William Trost Richards, 1877

Brown wash drawing of the Holy Family resting with a donkey, an angel in the trees, and a distant town.

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Guercino, c. 1626

Sketch of four boys in hats seated on sand, with a wooden pier and a moored boat in the background.

Four Boys on a Beach

Winslow Homer, 1873

Solitude: Miss Vesta Rollinstall

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1878

Pencil drawing of a young woman with a veil in a circular vignette on cream paper.

Young Woman's Head

Esther Frances Alexander, 1860s?

Pen and wash drawing of a kneeling veiled woman reaching toward three standing robed figures beneath a stormy sky.

Composition with Four Figures [recto and verso]

Attributed to Washington Allston, c. 1805

Sepia wash landscape of Gowanus Heights with trees, a stone house, a path with two figures, and distant ships on the bay.

Gowanus Heights, Brooklyn

William Henry Bartlett, c. 1836/1837

Pencil sketch of a kneeling man supporting a fallen companion while pointing forward, on pale paper.

The Death of General Warren

George Caleb Bingham

Francois

Charles J. Bridgman, 1872

Brown ink drawing of four putti, one painting at an easel on a cloud and another drawing at a board, with a reclining figure

Allegory: Four Putti

Mather Brown, 1780/1790

Pencil sketch sheet with studies of playful putti curling around large scroll forms, with a handwritten Florence 1840 note.

Banknote Studies [recto]

John William Casilear, 1840

Pen and ink sketch of a mountain valley with a farmhouse, river, trees, and a waterfall on a rocky cliff.

On the Road from Conway

Thomas Cole, 1827/1828

Sepia drawing of ruined Doric temple columns on a rocky hillside, with a smaller temple and distant sea below.

Temples of Juno, Lucina, and Concordia - Agrigentum, Sicily

Thomas Cole, 1842

Graphite study of a reclining nude woman with a flower wreath, holding a brush and palette, over a squared grid.

Reclining Female Nude Study for "Painting"

Pencil study of a draped plaster torso on a pedestal, with a raised arm and faint grid lines, on tan paper.

Study of a Plaster Torso

Graphite drawing of a reclining female figure with a shaded drapery study and grid lines, by Kenyon Cox, 1856.

Drapery Study for Reclining Female Study for "Painting"

Night sketch of a steamboat and barge on a river, with light reflections on the water, in brown and white tones.

Hudson River Brick Piers

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1886

Graphite drawing of a tall pine tree with a bare trunk and layered crown on tan paper, by Jasper Francis Cropsey.

Pine Tree

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1847

Pencil sketch of a wide river view with a sailboat, a steamboat, distant hills and trees along the near bank.

The Hudson River at Hastings

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1885

Pencil sketch of a man in a wide-brimmed hat raising a flail in a barn, with a dog and another worker nearby.

Man Flailing

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, 1850s

Sepia drawing of a dying old man in a log cabin, tended by a kneeling woman and gathered family members.

The Squatter's Death

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, 1859/1861

Aldrich's Dog

Arthur Bowen Davies, late 1880s

Pencil sketch of two foxglove stalks with bell-shaped flowers and broad leaves on a tan sheet of paper.

Foxgloves

Arthur Bowen Davies

Pen and wash drawing of a stone synagogue with columns, a pediment, a gothic tower and an iron fence.

Jewish Synagogue, N.Y.

Alexander Jackson Davis

Sepia drawing of a misty mountain valley with forested hills, two small buildings in a clearing, and two figures in the foreg

White Mountains (?)

Attributed to Asher Brown Durand, possibly 1825/1830

Pencil portrait of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat, signed C. L. Elliott and dated Albany, April 13, 1864.

Portrait of the Artist Asa W. Twitchell

Charles Loring Elliott, 1864

Pen and ink drawing of a woman in a hat sketching beside a stream in a dense forest, seated against a large rock.

Sketching from Nature

Thomas Charles Farrer, 1861

Charcoal drawing of two oxen pulling a dump cart over rocky ground with workmen pushing it.

Oxen and Dump Cart

Edwin Forbes, 1860s or 1870s

Graphite study of a hand gripping a cylinder, with soft shading on tan paper and a signature at lower right.

Study of a Hand

Horatio Greenough