Exterior facade of the National Gallery of Ireland on Merrion Square, Dublin, showing the neoclassical entrance with columns and stonework

Past

Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry

The Dublin leg of the Louvre tour, with ten Vermeers placed among their Dutch genre-painting contemporaries. Curated by Adriaan E. Waiboer with Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. and Blaise Ducos. The Met's Allegory of the Catholic Faith and the Rijksmuseum's Milkmaid hung only at the Paris leg.

Dates: 17 Jun 2017 – 17 Sept 2017
Museum: National Gallery of Ireland

Paintings10

A Lady Writing

1662–1667

Woman with a Lute

1662–1665

Woman with a Pearl Necklace

1662–1665

Woman Holding a Balance

1662–1665

The Lacemaker

1669–1671

The Astronomer

1668

The Geographer

1668–1669

The Love Letter

1667–1670

Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid

1670–1671

Mistress and Maid

1666–1668

Sources

Adriaan E. Waiboer with Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. and Blaise Ducos, Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry, exh. cat. (NGI / NGA / Louvre / Yale University Press, 2017)
Studio International — 'Exhibited in Paris but not in Dublin or Washington was Vermeer's Allegory of the Catholic Faith'
Jonathan Janson, Essential Vermeer — per-painting catalogue cross-reference to Dublin 2017