Past Exhibitions

Learn about past exhibitions going back as far as 1941 when the National Gallery of Art first opened to the public.

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February 4 - April 28, 1996
The Art of Louis-Léopold Boilly
November 19, 1995 - May 5, 1996
Italian Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection
November 12, 1995 - February 11, 1996
Johannes Vermeer
Shown from the elbows up, a young person with pale skin and brown hair wearing a wide, scarlet-red hat sits in front of a tapestry in this vertical portrait painting. She sits with her body facing our right in profile but she turns her face to look at or toward us with dark eyes. She has a rounded nose, rather flat cheeks, and a sliver of teeth is visible through parted coral-pink lips. The wide brim of the red hat seems to be made of a soft, almost feathery material, and it casts a shadow across her face. She wears a high-collared white garment that catches the light, a royal-blue, possibly velvet, robe or overcoat, and large, teardrop pearl earrings. Her arm runs along the bottom edge of the panel in front of two carved, wooden lion finials that could be the arm or back of the chair. The tapestry behind her is painted in tones of pale caramel brown and pine green. The painting has a soft, hazy look, and light glints with bright white specks off the pearl earrings, the tip of her nose, her lips, and the lion finials.
October 15, 1995 - January 28, 1996
Winslow Homer
October 11, 1995 - January 7, 1996
John Singleton Copley in England
October 8 - December 31, 1995
A Great Heritage
October 1, 1995 - January 28, 1996
The Touch of the Artist

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