Past Exhibitions

Bauhaus 100: The Print Portfolios 

20 July – 1 December 2019

Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light

10 August - 3 November 2019

Nathaniel Hone: Travels of a Landscape Artist

23 February – 13 October 2019

Making their Mark: Irish Painter-Etchers & the Etching Revival

2 March – 30 June 2019

Canaletto and the Art of Venice

5 December 2018 - 24 March 2019

[In]Visible: Irish Women Artists from the Archives

19 July 2018 – 2 March 2019

Markievicz: Portraits and Propaganda

27 October 2018 – 10 February 2019

Turner: The Vaughan Bequest

1 - 31 January 2019

Roderic O’Conor and the Moderns. Between Paris and Pont-Aven

18 July - 29 October 2018

Circus250: Art of the Show

9 June - 14 October 2018

Guercino: Journey of a Masterpiece

10 March - 27 May 2018

Drawing Dublin

5 May - 26 August 2018

Good Morning Mister Turner

1 - 31 January 2018

Frederic William Burton: For the Love of Art

25 October 2017 - 14 January 2018

Käthe Kollwitz: Life, Death, and War

6 September - 10 December 2017

Margaret Clarke: An Independent Spirit

13 May – 20 August 2017

Beyond Caravaggio

11 February - 14 May 2017

Leonardo da Vinci: Ten Drawings from the Royal Collection

4 May - 17 July 2016

James Stephens, the National Gallery of Ireland, and the 1916 Rising

6 February - 5 June 2016

Pathos of distance

2 December 2015 - 24 June 2016

Lines of Vision: Irish Writers at the National Gallery of Ireland

8 October 2014 - 12 April 2015

Sean Scully at the National Gallery of Ireland

9 May – 20 September 2015

Passion and Persuasion: Images of Baroque Saints

11 February – 31 May 2015

Shades of Grey: Painting without Colour

22 June - 29 September 2013

From Galway to Leenane: perceptions of landscape

15 June - 6 October 2013

The sketchbooks of Jack B. Yeats, 1897-1955

2 February - 3 June 2013

Jack of all Trades

28 July - 2 December 2012

Gabriel Metsu: Rediscovered Master of the Dutch Golden Age

4 September - 5 December 2010

Edvard Munch: Prints

19 September– 6 December 2009

Thomas Roberts (1748-1777)

28 March - 28 June 2009

Vermeer, Fabritius and De Hooch: Three Masterpieces from Delft

14 February – 24 May 2009

Impressionist Interiors

10 May – 10 August 2008

Paintings from Poland: Symbolism to Modern Art (1880-1939)

17 October 2007 – 27 January 2008

Masquerade and Spectacle: the circus and the travelling fair in the art of Jack B. Yeats

18 July – 11 November 2007

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