Getty Museum, 2

Our day at the Getty, October 4th, continued...

Sonorous rock placement

Rodin, Christ and Mary Magdalene, 1908; still
processing this one; originally commissioned by 
Karl Wittgenstein, father of the philosopher and
the pianist

James Ensor's cynical Christ's Entry into Brussels, 1889

Joseph Ducreux, Self-Portrait, Yawning, 1783; he also
did several other self-portraits in various poses; Marie Antoinette's
official portraitist

"What are you gawking at?!"

The Borghese-Windsor Cabinet, originally Pope Paul V's

Copy of Rigaud's Louis XIV

Writing table from Gobelins

Old timey microscope

J. P. really liked furniture

Writing table

Lots of period paintings in the furniture rooms, this, Vernet's Storm 
on the Mediterranean Coast, 1767

David, Portrait of Suzanne Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1804

Hubert Robert, Demolition of the Chateau of Meudon, 1806

Fragonard, The Fountain of Love, 1785

Watteau, The Surprise, 1718

Hogarth, Before, After, 1730

Another Hubert Robert, A Hermit Praying in the Ruins of a Roman 
Temple, 1760

Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun, The Vicomtesse de Vaudreuil,
1785

Obligatory Canaletto

This space available...all in all, we're glad we finally made it to The Getty,
definitely once in a lifetime; but we think we'll stick to the Louvre, the Orsay,
the Uffizi, the Met, the National Galleries, the Art Institute...

Beth and Bob: thanks for hospitality