West Building Tour: Featured Selections
An artist, an ecologist, a poet, a chef, a ballet dancer – and more! Discover notable people exploring the many stories revealed in art from the National Gallery’s rich collections.
Set your own pace by selecting as many tour stops as you like, in the order you choose. Just enter the track number below, press go, then press the play button when the tour stop appears. Don’t forget your headphones!
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Stop 201
- The Annunciation, c. 1434/1436
- West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 39
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Stop 202
- Death and the Miser, c. 1485/1490
- West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 41
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Stop 203
- Still Life with Peacock Pie, 1627
- West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 50
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Stop 204
- Self-Portrait, c. 1630
- West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 46
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Stop 205
- Daniel in the Lions' Den, c. 1614/1616
- West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 45
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Stop 206
- Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight, 1835
- West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 57
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Stop 207
- Niagara, 1857
- West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 71
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Stop 208
- Watson and the Shark, 1778
- West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 60-B
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Stop 209
- Portrait of My Grandmother, 1922
- West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 66
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Stop 210
- The Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial, 1900
- West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 66
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Stop 211
- Ginevra de' Benci [obverse], c. 1474/1478
- West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 6
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Stop 212
- Laocoön, c. 1610/1614
- West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 28
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Stop 213
- The Square of Saint Mark's, Venice, 1742/1744
- West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 31
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Stop 214
- The Alba Madonna, c. 1510
- West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 20
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Stop 215
- Two Women at a Window, c. 1655/1660
- West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 34
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Stop 216
- Woman with a Sunflower, c. 1905
- West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 86
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Stop 217
- The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries, 1812
- West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 56
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Stop 218
- Odalisque, 1870
- West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 81
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Stop 219
- Woman Viewed from Behind (Visit to a Museum), c. 1879-1885
- West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 86
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Stop 220
- The Old Musician, 1862
- West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 89
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Stop 222
- Lorenzo de' Medici, possibly 1513/1520
- West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 7
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Stop 223
- Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, 1878-1881
- West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G3
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Stop 224
- Chalice of the Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis, 2nd/1st century B.C. (cup); 1137-1140 (mounting)
- West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G18
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Stop 225
- Still Life with Peacock Pie, 1627
- West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 50
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Made possible by a grant from the Alice L. Walton Foundation
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