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National Gallery of Art

10,104 works

Red chalk drawing of a crowd of bearded men and turbaned figures around a haloed central figure with a raised arm.

Tribute Money

after Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Woodcut of a crowded interior with a robed man seized by armed men, with small narrative scenes in panels above.

The Martyrdom of Saint James (?)

Christoph Murer, 1630

Pen and wash drawing of two draped women standing left, and a Holy Family rest scene with an angel pointing right.

Two Draped Female Figures; Rest on the Flight into Egypt [verso]

Print of haloed Christ addressing disciples as angels sound trumpets and naked figures rise toward judgment in the sky.

Christ Tells His Disciples of the Last Judgment

Christoph Murer, 1630

Brown ink drawing of robed clerics meeting before an arched colonnade, with a processional cross and distant hills.

The Meeting of San Carlo Borromeo and San Filippo Neri

Unknown artist, c. 1600

Brown ink drawing of Abraham on a stone altar with an angel descending, a figure carrying wood, and a village in the distance

Sacrifice of Abraham

Alessandro Allori

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of three women and a seated king at a draped table in a columned interior.

Philomela, Procne, and the Thracian King Tereus

Follower of Abraham van Diepenbeeck

Brown ink drawing of nude men and kneeling figures in a flood scene, with a boat, cherubs and a tree in the background.

The Deluge, from the Loggia of the Vatican

Brown ink and wash drawing of robed figures gathered before a classical arched interior with columns and a kneeling figure.

Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery

Unknown artist, 16th century

Red chalk drawing of two nude male figures in dynamic poses, with modeled muscles and soft hatched shading.

Two Nudes

Unknown artist, 17th century

Pen and grey wash drawing of a bearded seated man beneath trees with dogs and a rough shelter in a wooded landscape.

The Prodigal Son

after Pietro Testa, 18th century

Chalk drawing on blue paper of Neptune in a chariot drawn by sea horses, with tritons, a sea nymph and cherubs.

The Triumph of Neptune

Unknown artist, 18th century

Woodcut print of Christ with a halo beside a kneeling man lifting his pallet, watched by a crowd of robed onlookers.

The Paralytic Healed by Christ Picks up His Pallet

Christoph Murer

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of robed figures gathered before classical arches, kneeling men in foreground, distant to

Joseph and His Brother in Egypt [verso]

Unknown artist, 17th century

Watercolor and pencil drawing of angular rooftops, a red chimney, tall trees, and a sailboat on water at left.

Rooftops and Trees

Charles Demuth, 1918

Brown wash drawing of a horse and carriage on a rainy city street with umbrella-carrying pedestrians.

The Up-Tide on the Avenue

Childe Hassam, 1890

Watercolor and pencil sketch of a snowy mountain above green conifer forest under a blue sky, labeled Mt. Hood.

Mount Hood, Oregon

Childe Hassam, 1904

Loose sketch of a New York river dock with cranes, barges, and blue-green water on brown paper.

North River Dock, New York

Childe Hassam, 1901

Etched landscape of a manor house behind a stone wall, with a carriage, wagons, walkers and large trees on a road.

Forsmarck

Grid of twenty-five panels showing lions, tigers, elephants, camels, deer and other animals in silver on mauve paper.

Endpaper with Animals

Eight ornamental panels of rococo scrollwork and floral motifs printed in copper ink on green paper.

Endpaper

Giovanni Antonio Remondini and Giovanni Battista Remondini, c. 1760

Endpaper with dense reddish-brown floral and scrolling vine pattern on a gold ground within a rust-colored border.

Endpaper with Floral Pattern

Unknown artist

Pink sheet with dense gold mixed floral pattern of blossoms, leaves and scrolling vines inside a thin gold border.

Endpaper with Mixed Floral Pattern

Unknown artist

Green block-printed sheet with rows of animals including an elephant, lions, deer, horses and dogs around a standing hunter.

Endpaper with Animals

Unknown artist, c. 1790/1850

Gold figures of men and women in period dress on a maroon ground, arranged in four rows with flowers, animals and a palm tree

Endpaper - "Zwarg Gesellschaft"

Unknown artist, c. 1780

Printed sheet in rows of small figures depicting many trades and workshop scenes, in a golden-brown ink on tan paper.

Endpaper with Scenes of the Trades

Johann Carl Munck, 1777

Printed sheet in olive-green ink on pink paper showing many birds in rows, including roosters, peacocks, herons and owls, wit

Endpaper with Birds

Unknown artist, c. 1780

Gilded printed sheet with thirty-two panels of haloed saints in rows, each labeled with a name beneath.

Endpaper with Saints

after Johann Lechner

Gold and blue checkered decorative endpaper with small floral motifs in each square, framed by a deckled blue-grey border.

Endpaper

Rust-red decorative paper with rows of gold birds including a peacock, turkey, owl and stork, plus a Nuremberg inscription.

Endpaper with Birds

Johann Georg Eckart