The Getty Center with the Veterans

On Thursday we took a field trip to the Getty Center and enjoyed the amazing view on a pretty clear day....could even see Catalina Island.  We viewed the French impressionists and other paintings of the 19th century as well as the Baroque period...Rembrandt and his contemporaries.

Here are a couple of new things I found to appreciate as well as the wonderful views:

This is a 1857-58self-portrait by Edgar Degas, a French painter who lived from 1834 to 1917.  This is one of about twenty self-portraits that Degas painted in Italy when he was about 23 years old. 

"Landscape with the Castle of Massa di Carrara," 1827 by Leo von Klenze, German, 1784-1864.
Klenze was primarily know for being the chief architect and head of public works in Munich from 1816-1864.  He painted this view, while living in Munich, of Massa, a town near Genoa, from the many sketches he had made in Italy seven years earlier