Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
Dresden, Germany
The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters Picture Gallery) in Dresden holds one of the world's foremost collections of European painting from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Built on the art treasures gathered by the Saxon Electors, especially Augustus II and Augustus III in the eighteenth century, it is housed in the Semper Gallery wing of the Zwinger palace complex, designed by Gottfried Semper and completed in the 1850s.
Its celebrated holdings include Raphael's Sistine Madonna and major works by Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt and Canaletto. The gallery owns two paintings by Johannes Vermeer, Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window and The Procuress, the latter one of the few works the artist signed and dated.
