December travel - Part 5

The National Gallery is overwhelming, both in its size and in its collections...and we had a limited time - so we passed a lot of stuff we would have loved to linger over...these are just the highlights...


Isoult - Edward McCartan 1926

Waterfall Fountain outside of the downstairs cafe

Naiad - Antonio Canova 1823

Cherubs Playing with a Lyre - Pierre Legros  1672-1673

Mercury - Anonymous (after Giovanni Bologna) 1780-1850

Cherubs Playing with a Swan - Jean-Baptiste Tuby 1672-1673
(when I saw this I thought, "OMG, poor bird...where are those children's mother???"

Dave with his favorite painting - e.g., the reason we went to the Gallery in the first place - Señora Sabasa Garcia - Francisco de Goya 1806-1811

The Emperor Napoleon in his Study at Tuileries
Jacques-Louis David   1812

Ceres (Summer) - Antoine Watteau  1717-1718

Cupid - Edme Bouchardon 1744

St. John of the Cross (San Juan de la Cruz)
Francisco Antonio Gijon 1675

 

Front and Back of
Ginevra de' Benci [obverse]  Leonardo da Vinci c. 1474/1478

Bartolomé Sureda y Miserol - also de Goya  1803-1804

After the Gallery, we headed up (down?) the mall, past the Washington Monument...


headed toward....                                            and looking from the memorial

We could see the White House from the Monument (the crane is working on a building several blocks behind the WH)...

And, finally, the World War II Memorial...

the memorial is the Stonehenge-looking object in the lower right...

inside the memorial

to honor his Dad, Dave took a picture of his cap which depicts the ship his father served on (USS Mallard) with the State where his father was born & lived at the time

As you can tell, the sun was setting, so we caught a cab back to the hotel and left the next morning after breakfast...

A quick 2 days, but what a great trip!

Here's to looking forward to a great 2015!