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The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of charge, the museum was privately established in 1937 for the American people by a joint resolution of the United States Congress.
The Mona Lisa was exhibited in the United States in 1963. Planned by Jacqueline Kennedy and André Malraux, it was first displayed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., with around 2,000 dignatories including John F. Kennedy at the first showing, followed by 500,000 people over the next three weeks.
Kiasma, the museum of contemporary art; Sinebrychoff Art Museum; National Gallery (Berlin), Germany, two of whose components are: Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery), Berlin; Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery), Berlin; National Gallery (Athens), Greece (alternatively, the National Art Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum)
Freer Gallery of Art (affiliated with the Sackler Gallery) Asian art: Washington, D.C. National Mall: 1923 [9] Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: Contemporary and modern art: Washington, D.C. National Mall: 1974 [12] National Air and Space Museum: Aviation and spaceflight history Washington, D.C. National Mall: 1946, 1976 [note 1] [13 ...
Restored plaster cast at the National Gallery of Art. A plaster cast, which was exhibited at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, is displayed at the National Gallery of Art, [13] on loan by the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire. [14]
The Corcoran Gallery of Art is a former art museum in Washington, D.C., that is now the location of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, a part of the George Washington University. Founded in 1869 by philanthropist William Wilson Corcoran, the gallery was one of the earliest public art museums in the United States. It held an important ...
The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of more than 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 [ 2 ] .
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries ( French : Napoléon dans son cabinet de travail aux Tuileries ) is an 1812 painting by Jacques-Louis David .