National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogues

Edgar Degas Sculpture Suzanne Glover Lindsay, Daphne S. Barbour, and Shelley G. Sturman

As an artist, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) defies easy description. Allied with the French impressionists through his commitment to portraying modern life, he also took an independent course, preferring line over color and the visible...

French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century Philip Conisbee
Edited by Richard Rand

Georges de La Tour's haunting depiction of a repentant Mary Magdalen gazing into a mirror by candlelight; Jean Siméon Chardin's perfectly balanced image of a young boy making a house of cards; Jean Honoré Fragonard's monumental suite...

European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century Ruth Butler and Suzanne Glover Lindsay

The National Gallery's collection of nineteenth-century sculpture is dominated by thirty-seven works by Auguste Rodin, among them The Kiss, and Honoré Daumier's celebrated portrait busts. These works, as well as sculptures by...

French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I: Before Impressionism Lorenz Eitner

The National Gallery's collection encompasses the neoclassicism of Jacques-Louis David as well as the naturalism of the Barbizon painters. The works of Jean-August-Dominique Ingres, such as the Gallery's famous portrait of Madame...

American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II Robert W. Torchia

More than one hundred works are catalogued in the second of two volumes devoted to the National Gallery of Art's holdings of nineteenth-century American paintings, including virtually all of the important portraits in the collection....

Decorative Arts, Part II: Far Eastern Ceramics and Paintings; Persian and Indian Rugs and Carpets Virginia Bower, Josephine Hadley Knapp, Stephen Little, and Robert W. Torchia

This volume, the second in the series to catalogue the Gallery's collection of decorative arts, mainly draws from the renowned collection of the Widener and Steele families. It focuses primarily on Chinese ceramics from the Qing period...

Western Decorative Arts, Part I: Medieval, Renaissance, and Historicizing Styles Including Metalwork, Enamels, and Ceramics Rudolf Distelberger, Alison Luchs, Philippe Verdier, and Timothy H. Wilson

The National Gallery's distinguished collection of decorative arts includes more than eighty works, such as Abbot Suger's jeweled sardonyx cup from the royal abbey of St. Denis, a Limoges reliquary, and a Mosan lion aquamanile. The...

British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries John M. Hayes

British masterpieces of grand-style portraiture and landscape painting are explored in this volume. Portraits such as Thomas Gainsborough's Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, as well as pictures by George Romney and Sir Henry Raeburn...

Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries Jonathan Brown and Richard G. Mann

The National Gallery's collection of Spanish paintings is distinguished by seven of El Greco's works from every period of his activity in Italy and Spain; Diego Velázquez' work on an intimate scale; Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's images...