Commons:NGA

The National Gallery of Art, Washington

The National Gallery of Art, Washington, East Building.

The National Gallery of Art, Washington, was founded as a gift to the nation from Andrew W. Mellon and serves as a center of visual art, education, and culture. The collection includes more than 150,000 paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, photographs, prints, and drawings.

The National Gallery of Art “serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.” To that end, the National Gallery of Art began making its collection freely available online in March 2012, when it initiated its open-access policy.

Contributions to Wikimedia Commons

In September of 2018, the National Gallery of Art began a partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation with the goal of donating the museum’s 53,000 open-access images of artworks to Wikimedia Commons. By the end of September 2019, nearly all of the intended 53,000 had been uploaded. Additional images are expected to be contributed each year. All images donated to Wikimedia Commons are made directly from the artworks by museum photographers and reviewed by a staff color scientist. Each primary file is embedded with descriptive metadata. These files are publication quality, up to 4,000 pixels on the long dimension. All images are dedicated Creative Commons 0 Universal License (CC0).

Categorization

The files contributed to Wikimedia Commons are organized in the following category and subcategories:

Images from the National Gallery of Art
Decorative Arts
Drawings
Index of American Design
Paintings
Prints
Photographs
Sculptures
Technical Materials

Sample Images

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  Adriaen van Ostade, Peasants' Quarrel, 1653.
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  George de Forest Brush, An Arapahoe Boy, c. 1882.
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  Chalice of the Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis, French 12th Century (mounting).
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  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Self-Portrait, 1928.
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  Al Curry, Iron Work on Stairway, c. 1936.
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  Lucas Cranach the Elder, A Princess of Saxony, c. 1517.
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  Julia Margaret Cameron, Mary Hillier and Two Children, 1864.
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  Rembrandt van Rijn, Lucretia, 1664.
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  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, The Jockey (Le jockey), 1899.
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  Carlo Pittaluga, Nymph of the Woods, 1915.
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  Berthe Morisot, Girl in a Boat with Geese, c. 1889.
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  Daniel Hopfer, Three German Soldiers Armed with Halberds, c. 1510.
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  Deruta 16th Century, Large dish with border of floral scrollwork and cornucopias; in the center, profile bust of "Faustina", c. 1510-1535.
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  Raphael, Eight Apostles, c. 1514.
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  Dorothy Lacey, Caswell Carpet, c. 1936.
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  George Inness, The Lackawanna Valley, c. 1856.
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  Nadar, Self-Portrait with Wife Ernestine in a Balloon Gondola, c. 1865.
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  James McNeill Whistler, The Guitar Player, 1875.
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  Luca della Robbia, Madonna and Child, c. 1475.
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  Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen beyond the Wall of the Jas de Bouffan, c. 1885-1888.
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  Eugene Barrell, Lamp, c. 1936.
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  Annibale Carracci, Venus Adorned by the Graces, 1590-1595.
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  American 19th Century, Sojourner Truth, 1864.
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  Albrecht Dürer, The Last Supper, 1510.
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  Hiram Powers, A Country Woman, model 1838, carved 1839.
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  Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Madonna of the Goldfinch, c. 1767-1770.
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  Odilon Redon, Flowers in a Vase, c. 1910.