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Will you, Won’t you, Will you, Won’t you, Won’t you join the dance?

EXPLORE WORKS

Overview

We invite you to experience live and in person our three floors of art and antiques, our exhibitions, lectures, dinners, dance performances, and cocktail parties.

OUR WORKS

Americana

Americana
Joseph Dawley

Joseph Dawley
Wall Of Women

Wall Of Women
ALL WORKS

EVENTS @ L'enfant Gallery

Date: March 29, 2025

Wall of Women

The Wall of Women was curated to celebrate International Women’s Day and the female artists in L’Enfant Gallery’s extensive collection. During the curation process, it became apparent to us how few women artists were represented and how many of the female portraits were naked. The wall became a powerful statement on the underrepresentation of women in the art world as a whole. For Women’ History Month in 2025, we brought the Wall of Woman into the public gallery space for everyone to see. We invited a select panel of artists, thinkers, and friends to sit in front of the art...

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Date: January 25, 2025

Joseph Dawley, 1936 – 2008

Together with the Dawley family, we have brought together over 40 paintings and prints to honour Joseph Dawley's career. From his art student days at SMU; to his success in Dallas as a master of realism depicting the 'wild west'; to his later works as a great American impressionist, developed as a reaction against early onset Parkinson's disease. Peter Colasante of L’Enfant Gallery has represented Joe Dawley since 1976 and continues to do so today. This friendship led Joe to be deeply connected to D.C. and as a result several prominent figures on Capitol Hill became collectors of his work...

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About L'ENFANT Gallery

L'ENFANT GALLERY in Georgetown invites you to experience art and history firsthand. Our doors are always open, no appointment needed, for those seeking inspiration and unique finds.

Visitors are welcome, without appointment.
CONTACT

1442 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington D.C. 20007
Wednesday – Sunday, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
PHONE: 202-625-2873
EMAIL: info@lenfantgallery.com
INSTAGRAM: @lenfantgallery

Phone: +1 202-625-2873

Hebe, c. 1800 - Attributed to Antonio Canova

Her expression, both generous and commanding, evokes the divine youth she personifies. As cupbearer to the gods, Hebe dispensed ambrosia and nectar; here, she extends the same offering to those who behold her. Discovered by L’Enfant Gallery founder Peter Colasante decades after first glimpsing her in a New York window, this Hebe traveled from the Vanderbilt collection in Annapolis through Michael Hall Fine Arts in New York before finding its present home.

Italian neoclassical master Antonio Canova’s sculptures reveal exceptional craftsmanship – subtle chisel marks smoothed through hours of pumice and linen polishing, resulting in surfaces that seem to breathe. His work embodies grace, restraint and technical perfection.

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History

Peter Colasante became an art dealer by accident. This story is as dramatic as they come. His arrival in DC from NYC, his brief career on the stage and meeting with Fred Maloof, the a wealthy Lebanese art collector Lower East Side roommate of Kahlil Gibran, led to a burglary, an accusation of attempted-assasination and a Washington Post reported interrogation of Peter by the FBI.

L’Enfant Gallery has always provided real escapism, a physical world of touched objects far away from the screen. Any sense of time or place vanishes as you climb the stairs to yet another floor

Peter continues to run a brick and mortar three story old curiosity shop come gallery, But he now also invites all to experience L’Enfant Gallery’s three floors of art and antiques, our exhibitions, lectures, dinners, dance performances, and cocktail parties.

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