The National Gallery of Art West Building in Washington, D.C.

Eric and I return to Washington, D.C. regularly to visit the city's many museums.

Today Eric & I visit the National

Gallery of Art West Building.

Eric and I strolled around the galleries and shared our favorite spent time talking about our favorite pieces in each room.  This brief post is my attempt to share just our favorite works of art in this building.

The Madonna & Child with

Saints Andrew, Benedict,

Bernard, Catherine of

Alexandria with Angels

Triptych by Gaddi Agnolo 

around 1387

Madonna & Child in Marble

carved by an anonymous

 sculptor around 1460

I an sooo excited to see a work by Leonardo Da Vinci....

Ginerva de' Benci by

Leonardo Da Vinci

around 1478

The Italian Comedians

by Antoine Watteau

painted around 1720

The comic in white reminds me of the HBO series, The Leftovers.

Soap Bubbles by Charles Amedee

Philippe Van Loo, painted in 1764

I was fascinated to see a soap bubble in a painting in a museum.

Bartolome Sureda y Miserol
by Francisco de Goya
painted in 1803 - 1804

Keelmen Heaving in Coals by

Midnight, painted by J.M.W.

Turner in 1835

The Hobby Horse by

Robert Peckham

painted in 1840

Niagara, by Frederic

Edwin Church 

painted in 1857

A Girl with a Watering Can

by Auguste Renoir

painted in 1876

Miss Beatrice Townsend

by John Singer Sargent,

panted in 1883

Children Playing on the Beach

by Mary Cassatt

painted in 1884

Before the Ballet by

Edgar Degas

painted 1890 - 1892

Marcelle Lender Dancing the

Bolero in "Chilperic" by

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

painted in 1895 - 1896

The Japanese Footbridge

by Claude Monet

painted in 1899

The Shaw Memorial, in

patinated plaster by

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

created in 1901

Young Woman in a Kimono

by Alfred H. Maurer

painted around 1901

Allies Day, May 1917 by

Childe Hassam, painted

in 1917

Next stop... the National Gallery East Building for Modern Art and Contemporary Art.