Last Hours, National Gallery

01 / 09

11:30 am

Bronze Company

Winged figures and huntresses, a room of bronze keeping each other company.

National Gallery, West Building · 23mm · ƒ/2.8 · 1/70 · ISO 800

Bronze sculptures seen through gallery doorways

02 / 09

11:37 am

Diana

Diana on one foot in the doorway, her shadow leaping twice on the wall.

National Gallery
23mm · ƒ/2.8 · 1/25 · ISO 800

Saint-Gaudens' Diana framed by an arched doorway, shadows doubled behind

03 / 09

11:49 am

The White Girl

Whistler's girl in white waits at the end of three rooms, lit like an apparition.

National Gallery · 23mm · ƒ/2.8 · 1/100 · ISO 500

Whistler's Symphony in White seen through a doorway

04 / 09

12:37 pm

Marcelle in Pink

Lautrec's bolero swirling pink, close enough to hear the orchestra.

National Gallery
23mm · ƒ/2.8 · 1/85 · ISO 800

Toulouse-Lautrec's Marcelle Lender dancing the bolero, in pink

05 / 09

1:00 pm

Daniel

Rubens' lions pace the paneled dark, and the bench waits in blue.

National Gallery · 23mm · ƒ/2.8 · 1/70 · ISO 800

Rubens' Daniel in the Lions' Den on a dark paneled wall above a blue bench

The Garden Court fountain among palms and columns

07 / 09

1:16 pm

Matching Blues

A visitor in blue stops for a lady in blue, four centuries apart.

National Gallery
23mm · ƒ/2.8 · 1/75 · ISO 800

A visitor in a blue shirt before a portrait of a woman in a blue dress

08 / 09

1:40 pm

The Saint Looks Up

A wooden saint mid-plea, eyes on something above the skylights.

National Gallery · 23mm · ƒ/2.8 · 1/100 · ISO 320

A polychrome wooden saint with open hands, looking upward

09 / 09

1:45 pm

Ginevra, Goodbye

The last stop is always Ginevra, boxed in glass, unbothered. Goodbye, Washington.

National Gallery
23mm · ƒ/2.8 · 1/56 · ISO 800

Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci in her glass case on a marble pedestal