L'Enfant Gallery of Georgetown

05/11/2026

WERE YOU HERE?

DID YOU SEE IT?

WILL YOU COME NEXT TIME?

Visit our website to hear when we will all meet again...

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SO WHAT HAPPENED ON FRIDAY NIGHT?

A lucky group of 50 people sat with us in L’Enfant Gallery and rode a wave of surprising powerful emotions and took home a rediscovered sense of wonder.

Together we felt the music, shared the energy, marvelled in disbelief at the magic, and became part of a beautiful community of creative souls in A CITY THAT NEEDS AND WANTS THE ARTS now more than ever.

Thank you all those friends and strangers who came and supported our cast of artists.

IMMERSIVE.

UNPREDICTABLE.

UNFORGETTABLE.

L’Enfant Gallery was so honoured to welcome POLITE SOCIETY as they stepped out of New York City for the first time ever, and into the heart of Georgetown for one night only.

TANSY was our ringmaster host extraordinaire and guided us upstairs and downstairs, surrounded by endless paintings which adorn every wall.

The show unfolded in many unexpected and endlessly entertaining ways as the layers were removed.

MAGIC.

FUNNY.

EXCITING.

TANSY had gathered a lineup of skilled professionals; DC pianist and
on sax.

is DC burlesque at its best. She shared her smile, gloves & feathers.

The world renowned & very funny magician cannot be described in words. Ask someone who was here to explain.

Sensational vocals came in the form of Cunio, who took a moment away from to bring his black stilettos and blinding voice to us. We watched members of the audience close their eyes and tip their head back at the sound.

DC’s powerful mezzo soprano showed playful humour, accompanied by .quentin and .rachael.k.small and glided amongst the sculpture in their tango embrace.

And TANSY showed us why she is an international burlesque icon.

Her elegance, style and grace of movement extended to her costume of threaded gold; gilded couture whispering Klimt’s kiss. An artwork in itself, crafted by - it looked at us with three carefully placed eyes… we stared back.

EYES WIDE OPEN.

Photo:
Light: .d

04/21/2026

We invite you to come and see our our new arrangement of an old show by Paco Lane.

Paco Lane is said to be a man of few words. So we chose a sound track from another man who makes an impact without saying anything; Thank you Gesaffelstein for your remix.

The paintings show here are from Lane’s 2004 collection titled “Miro”. These works show objects of human experience; newspapers, bottles of wine, bowls of fruit and flowers. Lane’s catalogue says of this collection:

“…Paco closes his eyes and departs to the ancient worlds of Spana (land of the rabbit) where the Iberian culture flourished among the green valleys of the Ebro river, down to the south of Spain where a dark sun shines among the walls of the Alhambra, to those quiet interiors inside El Escorial with dark paintings who still hold court, vague and magical in the deepest black.”

Paco still lives and works in Virginia. Peter Colasante represent Paco Lane from 2001 – 2015. His current work can be seen and

04/06/2026

Thank you - We are touched and grateful that your endlessly interesting publication picked up on the eccentric and exceptional work of who inhabited our window durng 2025

WHO IS TERESA?

Terese is a classic oil painter, currently working on a series of still life paintings of flowers, babies and fish.

The surrealist twists, for which she is internationally known, become clearer when you look closely…

As Terese worked in window at this time last year, photographing her realistic dolls with fruits, flowers and our antique Japanese porcelain, we discussed the role of chubby infants through art history.

Teresa was dressed in her own Victorian style; silk bows, stockings and buckled shoes. As she moved her tripod, she explained her work:

“The photographs guide my surrealist paintings; the dolls are transformed into “putti”; winged cherubs. When I paint, the dolls will have wings and fly in a Koi pond surrounded by bubbles…”

WHO PHOTOGRAPHED TERESA?

Images 4,5&6 by on her first visit to L’Enfant Gallery and we are happy to have had many more opertunities to work together since.

Images 8&9 by who visited on the and gifted his photographs. Jonathon Woolford-Hunt working as is a photographer and multidisciplinary artist with global experience capturing art in all its forms. He has finished a Master’s in Media Art and Film , filmed his MA film submission in our gallery and will be arranging a screening here soon.

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We continue to welcome - especially photographers with a creative vision for a highly styled shoots. Just let us know.

03/28/2026

Today, many will walk the streets of this country under the flag of No King.

As dangerously disputed truths and lies pulse through the capital and across the word, it feels a pertinent moment to give time to Arthur Miller.

went to Lisner Auditorium this week to hear how life after the Kennedy Center sounds for the Washington National Opera.

It’s sounds defiant.

It sounds strong.

Miller’s powerful analogy of accusations of witchcraft and McCarthyist terror is not the first WNO production where truths battle lies.

Their last show “Treemonisha”, told of an educated freedwoman on a former plantation, who challenged superstition to become her community's leader.

In May, WNO will stage “West Side Story” and are traveling to Baltimore to borrow a stage...

The themes of resistance across these shows is stark in their time of great transition.

“Every great city has a great opera company, and this has been the case for D.C. since the Opera Society of Washington was founded in 1956. Now… WNO begins a new chapter”
— WNO.

The Kennedy Center had been their home since opening in 1971, but this year, they decided to leave.

The Lisner Auditorium was almost full on a quiet Wednesday evening, and support for the WNO post Kennedy era was clear.

Miller, like others found a way to express his art despite a hostile environment. Unable to openly critique the current political climate he wrapped his message in chilling 17th-century Salem, a moment marked by mass hysteria, moral panic, and profound social upheaval.

A familiar feeling.

As the naming of names and scapegoating goes on, WE GIVE THANKS to - their talented performers, directors, musicians and all those who are holding ground.

Image1:
L’Enfant Gallery portrait of King James I of England attributed to Paul Van Somer and studio, circa 1612, ‘holding’ a Washington National Opera play bill for their current production The Crucible. No photoshop.

Image 2/4/6/8 Public letter from WNO dated Jan 10,2026.

Vocals pirated without consent but with our deep respect to a non operatic vocalist with ‘Sisters of Winter’.

03/28/2026

This is Paco Lane’s 2004 collection catalogue titled “Miro”, where Lane’s paintings show objects of human experience; newspapers, bottles of wine, bowls of fruit and flowers.

This catalogue says of this collection
“…Paco closes his eyes and departs to the ancient worlds of Spana (land of the rabbit) where the Iberian culture flourished among the green valleys of the Ebro river, down to the south of Spain where a dark sun shines among the walls of the Alhambra, to those quiet interiors inside El Escorial with dark paintings who still hold court, vague and magical in the deepest black.“

Paco still lives and works in Virginia.

Peter Colasante used to represent Paco Lane (from 2001 – 2015).

Lane is currently represented by Studio A, near Tenleytown, where you can see his more contemporary abstract and graffiti work.

03/13/2026

“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs...”
— Rudyard Kiplin, If

A moment of peace yesterday with and

02/26/2026

Forty Five drawings by Modigliani, 1959 by Guilin Einaudi editors, Turin and Grove Press, Inc., New York. Edition no. 164 of 250 printed.

Fabric covered portfolio box containing 45 numbered, embossed and signed prints. Some line drawings, some color pastels. Range of sizes.

Each has an individual card mount measuring 23” x 18”. Each has an individual printed number corresponding to a list of prints provided in the document at the front of the edition. Portfolio box measures 23” x 18” x 3” deep.

We have several sets. Some are incomplete.

Some prints can be sold individually. Price on request.

Please DM to make an appointment to view these items as they are not on display.


Extract from the printed document which accompanies the 45 drawing set:

“This work appears in an edition of one thousand, of which seven hundred and fifty copies are numbered 1 through 750; two hundred and fifty copies, numbered I through CCL, have been printed for the Grove Press, Inc., New York, with an English translation of the text by Ben Johnson. No. CLXIV (164 of 250). Copyright 1959 by Guilin Einaudi editors, Turin and Grove Press, Inc., New York. Forty Five drawings by Modigliani selected and with an introduction by Lamberto Vitali.”

01/15/2026

Some of the magic of L’Enfant Gallery is Peter’s long standing and reputation brings people to us.

We recently took custody of someone’s collection of - we have 35 works and Peter is clear he is not an expert in this type of work, so we will take advice before pricing them.

Photographing them for the inventory list, and sharing with you.

Handling with care, red leather gloves from .dc

01/01/2026

12/31/2025

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12/25/2025

Wishing peace and goodwill to all this Christmas, with love and art from L’Enfant Gallery