National Gallery of Art

**National Gallery of Art**
	national art museum in Washington, D.C. Indoor garden court with paired Ionic columns and symmetrical planting beds
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Instance of	art museum; publisher; national museum;
Location	Washington, D.C., District of Columbia
Architect	John Russell Pope; I. M. Pei;
Headquarters location	Washington, D.C. (6th St NW and Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC 20565, Constitution Avenue, 20565);
Has part(s)	National Gallery of Art - Gallery 35 (exhibition room); National Gallery of Art - Gallery 10 (exhibition room); National Gallery of Art - Gallery 06 (exhibition room); National Gallery of Art - Gallery 51 (exhibition room); National Gallery of Art - Gallery 12 (exhibition room); Prints in the National Gallery of Art (art collection); Samuel H. Kress Collection of the National Gallery of Art (art collection); National Gallery of Art - West Building Gallery 18;
Founded by	Andrew W. Mellon (bequest, 1937); United States Congress (joint resolution, 1937);
Inception	24 March 1937;
Date of official opening	17 March 1941;
Visitors per year	4,074,403 (2019);
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	38° 53′ 29″ N, 77° 01′ 12″ W
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English: The National Gallery of Art is an art museum, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The museum was established in 1937 by the Congress, with funds for construction and a substantial art collection donated by Andrew W. Mellon plus major art works donated by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Italian art contributions from Samuel H. Kress, and more than 2,000 sculptures, paintings, decorative art, and porcelains from Joseph E. Widener.

Building[edit]

Main (West) Building facade
West Building exterior
West Building interior
East Building exterior
East Building interior
Aerial view

Collection[edit]

1300–1399[edit]

Duccio di Buoninsegna, The Nativity with the Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel (from the Maestà), c. 1308–11
Paolo Veneziano, 1324
Giotto, Madonna and Child, c. 1320
Tino di Camaino, Madonna and Child with Angels, c. 1355

1400–1499[edit]

Jacopo della Quercia, Madonna of Humility, c. 1400
Masolino da Panicale, The Annunciation, 1425–30
Jan van Eyck, The Annunciation, 1434
Giovanni di Paolo, The Annunciation and Expulsion from Paradise, c. 1435
Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi, Adoration of the Magi, c. 1445
Domenico Veneziano, St. John in the Wilderness, c. 1445
Petrus Christus, The Nativity, c. 1445–50
Anonymous Florence 1430-1450
Andrea del Castagno, Shield with David and the Head of Goliath, c. 1450–5
Rogier van der Weyden, Portrait of a Lady, c. 1460
Benozzo Gozzoli, The Dance of Salome, 1461–2
Benedetto da Maiano, Madonna and Child, 1475
Giovanni Bellini, Giovanni Emo, ca. 1475-1480, 48.9 × 34.6 cm (19.2 × 13.6 in)
Andrea del Verrocchio, Giuliano de' Medici, c. 1475–8
Leonardo da Vinci, Portrait of Ginevra de' Benci, c. 1476
Piero di Cosimo, The Visitation, c. 1480–90
Filippino Lippi, Portrait of a Youth, c. 1485
Andrea della Robbia, Madonna and Child with Cherubim, 1485
Hieronymus Bosch, Death and the Miser, between 1488 and 1516
Andrea Mantegna, Judith and Holofernes, c. 1495
Albrecht Dürer, Madonna and Child (Haller Madonna), c. 1498

1500–1599[edit]

Piero di Cosimo, An Allegory, c. 1500
Category:Matthias Grünewald, Crucifixion, c. 1502
Giorgione, The Adoration of the Shepherds, c. 1500–10
Raphael, Cowper Madonna, 1504–5
Raphael, Saint George and the Dragon, 1505
Titian, Portrait of a Venetian Nobleman, c. 1507
Lucas van Leyden, The Card Players, c. 1508–10
Raphael, Alba Madona, c. 1511
Raphael, Portrait of Bindo Aldoviti, c. 1514
Giovanni Bellini and Titian, The Feast of the Gods, c. 1514
Angelo Bronzino, Allegorical Portrait of Dante, c. 1530
Jan Gossaert, Portrait of a Merchant, c. 1530
Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1522
Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Crucifixion with the Converted Centurion, 1536
Hans Holbein the Younger, Edward VI, c. 1538
Titian, Portrait of Ranuccio Farnese, 1542
Titian, Venus with a Mirror, c. 1555
Attributed to Abel Grimmer, The Marketplace in Bergen op Zoom, 1590-1597 probably

1600–1699[edit]

El Greco, Laocoön, 1604–16
Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of Isabella Brandt, 1623–6
Nicolas Poussin, The Assumption of the Virgin, c. 1626
Orazio Gentileschi, Lutenist, 1626
Pieter Claesz, Still Life with a Peacock Pie, 1627
Anthony van Dyck, ca. 1628
Frans Hals, Portrait of Willem Coymans, 1645
Self-Portrait in the Studio. Circa 1645
date QS:P,+1645-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
. oil on panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
. 10.8 × 8.9 cm (4.2 × 3.5 in). Washington, D.C.,

National Gallery of Art.

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Claude Lorrain, The Judgment of Paris, 1645–6
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Two Women at a Window, c. 1655–60
Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, 1659
Still Life with Dead Game, 1661, National Gallery of Art
Johannes Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance, c. 1665
Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Red Hat, 1665–7
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, The Return of the Prodigal Son, between 1667 and 1670

1700–1799[edit]

François Boucher, Madame Bergeret, 1766
John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778
Gilbert Stuart, Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1784
Thomas Gainsborough, Portrait of Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1785–6
Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, The Marquise de Pezay (or Pezé) and the Marquise de Rougé with her Sons, 1787