Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid
Johannes Vermeer · 1670
National Gallery of Ireland
Dublin
Caravaggio's Taking of Christ hung unrecognised in a Jesuit dining room for decades. It is here now, and entry is free.
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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
Artists
Dutch · 1629–1667 · Baroque
Dutch Republic · 1628–1682
Italian · 1488–1576 · Venetian school
Republic of Venice · 1431–1506
Ireland · 1838–1891
Italian · 1571–1610 · Baroque
France · 1840–1926
Spain · 1599–1660
Italian · 1400–1455 · Italian Renaissance
Spanish · 1746–1828 · Romanticism
Dutch Republic · 1582–1666
Ireland · 1816–1900
Artworks
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
Portrait of Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Bellamont (1738-1800), in Robes of the Order of the Bath
Joshua Reynolds · 1773
The Supper at Emmaus
Titian · 1545
The Gleaners
Jules Breton · 1854
Madonna and Child
Paolo Uccello · 1445
Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph
Guercino · 1638
Bust of Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio
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