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Home>Plan Your Visit>Tours, Guides, and Maps>Self-Guided Tours>West Building Tour: Featured Selections

# 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!

 

              -  Stop202    - Death and the Miser , c. 1485/1490
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              -  Stop203    - Still Life with Peacock Pie , 1627
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              -  Stop205    - Daniel in the Lions' Den , c. 1614/1616
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              -  Stop206    - Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight , 1835
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              -  Stop207    - Niagara , 1857
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              -  Stop208    - Watson and the Shark , 1778
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              -  Stop209    - Portrait of My Grandmother , 1922
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              -  Stop210    - The Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial , 1900
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              -  Stop211    - Ginevra de' Benci [obverse] , c. 1474/1478
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              -  Stop212    - Laocoön , c. 1610/1614
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              -  Stop213    - The Square of Saint Mark's, Venice , 1742/1744
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              -  Stop214    - The Alba Madonna , c. 1510
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              -  Stop215    - Two Women at a Window , c. 1655/1660
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              -  Stop216    - Woman with a Sunflower , c. 1905
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              -  Stop217    - The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries , 1812
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              -  Stop219    - Woman Viewed from Behind (Visit to a Museum) , c. 1879-1885
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              -  Stop222    - Lorenzo de' Medici , possibly 1513/1520
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              -  Stop223    - Little Dancer Aged Fourteen , 1878-1881
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              -  Stop224    - Chalice of the Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis , 2nd/1st century B.C. (cup); 1137-1140 (mounting)
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              -  Stop225  
Celebrity chef Carla Hall examines the vast array of foods available in Claesz’s banquet scene.  
  - Still Life with Peacock Pie , 1627
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