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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Pencil drawing of a garden wall with a stone sphere, tall trees, and distant buildings and hills beyond.

View across the Wall of an Italian Garden

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1744

Pencil sketch of a weathered stone arch with overgrown top, a wooden railing at left and a smaller arched passage at right.

Arch of Drusus near the Appian Way

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1744

Pencil drawing of crumbling brick ruins with an arched niche, a tower, and trees, set behind a low stone wall.

Ruins of the Temple of Venus and Rome in the Forum

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1744

Pencil drawing of a classical villa with arched gateway and balustrade, framed by tall trees and shrubbery.

Villa d'Este, Tivoli

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1744

Pencil sketch of the Casino Farnese on the Palatine Hill in Rome, with trees, stone walls and birds in the sky.

Casino Farnese on the Palatine Hill, Rome

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1744

Pencil sketch of crumbling Roman ruins with arches, overgrown shrubs, and a stand of tall cypress trees.

Roman Ruins with a Stand of Cypresses

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1744

Watercolor of a male black grouse with blue-black plumage and a female crouching among ferns and grass.

English Black Cocks

John James Audubon, 1828

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a bay with anchored ships, a fortress on the right, and distant hills under a hazy sky.

The Gulf of Pozzuoli

Johann Heinrich Schilbach, 1825

Pencil drawing of Tewkesbury Abbey showing its tall central tower, spires, and Gothic windows and portals.

Tewkesbury Abbey

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Pale watercolor landscape of a sunlit river valley with a small red figure on a slope and a hazy blue horizon.

A Yorkshire River

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1827

Watercolor of a misty river valley with a tower, a distant town, and foreground figures resting beneath trees.

Oberwesel

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1840

Watercolor landscape of a large tree leaning over a pond with reeds, a woodland path, and distant trees under a pale sky.

Peamore, Devon

John White Abbott, 1799

Pen and ink drawing of two grotesque male profiles facing each other, one in a tall cap, the other in a hat.

Two Grotesque Heads

Francesco Melzi, 1510

Drawing of a muscular male nude reclining on draped cloth, rendered in grey chalk with white highlights.

A Reclining Male Nude

Georg Rafael Donner

Brown wash drawing of soldiers attacking mothers and infants, with a central woman holding two children amid fallen figures.

The Massacre of the Innocents

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini

Engraving of figures in a panelled interior with a clock, women in elaborate dresses, a child, a man in a wig, and a dog.

The beautiful nurse

Joseph de Longueil

Engraved interior with a seated woman by a fireplace, a couple, a woman with a basket of eggs, dogs and a hen.

The pretty farmer's wife

Joseph de Longueil

Engraving of an 18th-century interior with a couple seated, a maid styling hair, a servant with a tray, a birdcage and dog.

The morning

Joseph de Longueil

Engraving of elegantly dressed people dining at a table on a garden terrace, served by an attendant with a covered dish.

The midday

Joseph de Longueil

Engraving of elegantly dressed people playing cards beneath classical columns, with a fountain, parrot, and small dog in the

The afternoon

Joseph de Longueil

Engraved interior scene of a candlelit room with a man, two women, a canopied bed, and a wall clock.

The evening

Joseph de Longueil

Engraving of elegantly dressed figures buying flowers from vendors on a city street, with a donkey loaded with plants.

The spring

Joseph de Longueil

Engraving of elegantly dressed figures by a fountain with a dog, and women resting in a wheat field with a village behind.

The summer

Joseph de Longueil

Engraving of an autumn harvest scene with hunters and dogs at left, women gathering fruit from a tree and ladder, and a baske

The autumn

Joseph de Longueil

Engraving of skaters on a frozen pond, a woman in a sledge with a small dog, and a fallen skater under bare winter trees.

The winter

Joseph de Longueil

Pen and brown ink drawing of the Holy Family with the infant Saint John, seated near a palm tree in a landscape.

Holy Family with Infant Saint John

Luca Cambiaso, c. 1562/1563

Pen and brown ink drawing of the Last Supper, with Christ at the center of a long table surrounded by apostles.

The Last Supper

Unknown artist, mid 16th century

Brown wash drawing of the Madonna and Child with haloed saints and cherubs beside a column and palm tree.

Madonna Surrounded by Saints

Grey wash drawing of mythological scene with gods in clouds, nude figures, putti, and a fallen figure below.

Death of Phaeton

Michael Burghers after Johann Liss

Pen and brown ink drawing of a classical sacrifice scene with an altar, armed men, a seated ruler, and a slain animal.

Sacrifice Scene (Gaius Mucius Scaevola?)

Unknown artist, late 16th century