Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid
Johannes Vermeer · 1670
National Gallery of Ireland
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Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid
Johannes Vermeer · 1670
Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, completed in 1670 to 1671 and held in the National Gallery of Ireland, in Dublin, Ireland. The painting shows a standing woman seemingly acting as a messenger between the seated younger lady and her unseen lover.
The Taking of Christ
Caravaggio · c. 1602
The Taking of Christ is a painting, of the arrest of Jesus, by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Originally commissioned by the Roman nobleman Ciriaco Mattei in 1602, it is housed in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
The Funeral of Patroclus
Jacques-Louis David · 1778
The Funeral of Patroclus is a 1778 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David. It shows the funeral of Patroclus during Trojan War, with his body and Achilles at the foot of the pyre and Hector resting on his chariot on the right.
Portrait of Doña Antonia Zárate
Francisco Goya · 1805
The Portrait of Doña Antonia Zárate is an oil painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya, from c. 1805.
Castle Bentheim
Jacob van Ruisdael · 1653
Bentheim Castle (1653) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Jacob van Ruisdael. It is in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin.
Woman Reading a Letter
Gabriel Metsu · 1665
Woman Reading a Letter may refer to:Woman Reading a Letter (Metsu), a mid-1660s painting by Gabriël Metsu Woman Reading a Letter (Vermeer), a painting from around 1663 by Johannes Vermeer
Artists
Dutch · 1629–1667 · Baroque
Gabriël Metsu was a Dutch painter of history paintings, still lifes, portraits, and genre works. He was "a highly eclectic artist, who did not adhere to a consistent style, technique, or one type of subject for long peri
Dutch Republic · 1628–1682
Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He is generally considered the pre-eminent landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, a period of great wealth and cultural achievement when Du
Italian · 1488–1576 · Venetian school
Tiziano Vecellio, Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian, was an Italian Renaissance painter. The most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting, he was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno.
Republic of Venice · 1431–1506
Andrea Mantegna was an Italian Renaissance painter, a student of Roman archaeology, and the son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g.
Ireland · 1838–1891
Augustus Joseph Nicholas Burke was an Irish artist and an Academician of the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA).
Italian · 1571–1610 · Baroque
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for a significant portion of his artistic life.
Artworks
Man Writing a Letter
Gabriel Metsu · 1665
Saints Cosmas and Damian and their Brothers Surviving the Stake
Fra Angelico · 1438
Kitchen Scene with the Supper in Emmaus
Diego Velázquez · 1618
Nocturnal Landscape with the Holy Family resting on the flight into Egypt
Rembrandt · 1647
Portrait of Prince Alessandro Farnese
Sofonisba Anguissola · 1560
David and Goliath
Orazio Gentileschi · 1605
Hellelil and Hildebrand, the meeting on the turret stairs
Frederic William Burton · 1864
Connemara Girl
Augustus Nicholas Burke · 1850
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Andrea Mantegna · 1497
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Admission
Entry to the permanent collection is free.
Getting there
Merrion Square West, Dublin 2, Ireland.
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