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'The Arrival at the Stable'

'The Arrival at the Stable'

'The Arrival at the Stable' https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_214.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

12.11.2025 19:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Winter Landscape with Houses

Winter Landscape with Houses

Winter Landscape with Houses https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_787.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

12.11.2025 16:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Portrait of Princess Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina (1751-1820)

Portrait of Princess Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina (1751-1820)

Portrait of Princess Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina (1751-1820) https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_464.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

12.11.2025 15:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Penitent Mary Magdalen

The Penitent Mary Magdalen

The Penitent Mary Magdalen https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_319.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

12.11.2025 11:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A village fair is in full swing. People are eating, drinking, dancing and kissing. On the left a man is vomiting – the unpleasant side effect of over-indulgence. At the end of the sixteenth century, David Vinckboons moved from Flanders to Amsterdam, where he introduced the theme of the country fair to Holland. Vinckboons’ peasants and their humble pleasures were a source of amusement to collectors from the bourgeoisie.

A village fair is in full swing. People are eating, drinking, dancing and kissing. On the left a man is vomiting – the unpleasant side effect of over-indulgence. At the end of the sixteenth century, David Vinckboons moved from Flanders to Amsterdam, where he introduced the theme of the country fair to Holland. Vinckboons’ peasants and their humble pleasures were a source of amusement to collectors from the bourgeoisie.

Country Fair https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_542.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

12.11.2025 10:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Portrait of a Man

Portrait of a Man

Portrait of a Man https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_608.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

11.11.2025 18:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Troost painted various scenes from the popular play “Jan Claasz or the Supposed Servant Girl”. The play’s finale is an accumulation of farcical situations. Saartje is on the verge of marrying the boring Reinier. What no-one knows is that she is secretly in love with Jan Claasz. In order to prevent the wedding, the couple have hatched a plot: disguised as a servant girl, Saartje’s lover creeps into her bed at night. On the morning of the wedding, Saartje’s parents discover the deceit and fly into a rage. To save the situation, Saatje pretends to faint, whereupon her parents agree to a marriage between Saartje and Jan Claaz. All’s well that ends well.

Troost painted various scenes from the popular play “Jan Claasz or the Supposed Servant Girl”. The play’s finale is an accumulation of farcical situations. Saartje is on the verge of marrying the boring Reinier. What no-one knows is that she is secretly in love with Jan Claasz. In order to prevent the wedding, the couple have hatched a plot: disguised as a servant girl, Saartje’s lover creeps into her bed at night. On the morning of the wedding, Saartje’s parents discover the deceit and fly into a rage. To save the situation, Saatje pretends to faint, whereupon her parents agree to a marriage between Saartje and Jan Claaz. All’s well that ends well.

The Discovery of Jan Claasz https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_182.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

11.11.2025 15:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Portrait Relief of Arnout Vosmaer (1720-1799)

Portrait Relief of Arnout Vosmaer (1720-1799)

Portrait Relief of Arnout Vosmaer (1720-1799) https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_1069.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

11.11.2025 13:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Jane Seymour was the third wife of the English king Henry VIII. Her expensive clothing is embroidered in gold thread, and she is wearing a string of pearls and a pendant of precious stones around her neck. Jane was Henry’s favourite wife. She gave him his long-awaited male heir to the throne, although she died in childbirth. The court painter Hans Holbein painted several portraits of Jane Seymour, which his pupils copied. But this painting is so good that it may have been painted by Holbein himself.

Jane Seymour was the third wife of the English king Henry VIII. Her expensive clothing is embroidered in gold thread, and she is wearing a string of pearls and a pendant of precious stones around her neck. Jane was Henry’s favourite wife. She gave him his long-awaited male heir to the throne, although she died in childbirth. The court painter Hans Holbein painted several portraits of Jane Seymour, which his pupils copied. But this painting is so good that it may have been painted by Holbein himself.

Portrait of Jane Seymour (1509?-1537) https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_278.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

11.11.2025 12:14 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Ter Borch became famous for his intimate scenes of people engrossed in what they are doing, often unaware of our presence. He also had an exceptional talent for depicting different materials, like the gleaming satin of the girl’s dress. Here, we see a soldier receiving a letter from a messenger. It’s easy to imagine that the letter is a call to the front, away from the girl who leans against him so lovingly.

Ter Borch became famous for his intimate scenes of people engrossed in what they are doing, often unaware of our presence. He also had an exceptional talent for depicting different materials, like the gleaming satin of the girl’s dress. Here, we see a soldier receiving a letter from a messenger. It’s easy to imagine that the letter is a call to the front, away from the girl who leans against him so lovingly.

The Messenger, known as 'The Unwelcome News' https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_176.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

11.11.2025 09:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Salomon van Ruysdael was the leading painter of Dutch water landscapes. In this fresh breezy picture, the emphasis is all on the clouds and the water. Beneath an impressive cloudy sky, some small boats sail into the distance with billowing sails. In this way, Van Ruysdael created a great sense of space on a small surface. He worked very efficiently and left the brown base bare in several places, making it part of the picture. The water is a good example of this.

Salomon van Ruysdael was the leading painter of Dutch water landscapes. In this fresh breezy picture, the emphasis is all on the clouds and the water. Beneath an impressive cloudy sky, some small boats sail into the distance with billowing sails. In this way, Van Ruysdael created a great sense of space on a small surface. He worked very efficiently and left the brown base bare in several places, making it part of the picture. The water is a good example of this.

View of Beverwijk from the Wijkermeer https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_1117.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

10.11.2025 19:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
There is a cheerful atmosphere at this country inn, where a travelling violin player has come to play a tune. He is accompanied on the hurdy-gurdy by the boy in the red jacket. Both young and old are enjoying the music. The Haarlem artist Adriaen van Ostade painted a great many merry companies of peasants and country folk. He was an example to Jan Steen, and may even have been his master.

There is a cheerful atmosphere at this country inn, where a travelling violin player has come to play a tune. He is accompanied on the hurdy-gurdy by the boy in the red jacket. Both young and old are enjoying the music. The Haarlem artist Adriaen van Ostade painted a great many merry companies of peasants and country folk. He was an example to Jan Steen, and may even have been his master.

The Fiddler https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_129.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

10.11.2025 16:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Birth of Mary

The Birth of Mary

The Birth of Mary https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_314.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

10.11.2025 13:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Old Man with Tankard and Pipe

Old Man with Tankard and Pipe

Old Man with Tankard and Pipe https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_701.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

10.11.2025 10:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Here, Ter Brugghen has painted the biblical story of St Peter’s liberation from prison. The angel is waking him and pointing upwards, as if to say that God has sent him. St Peter looks alarmed and folds his chained hands. Ter Brugghen created a very powerful painting with strong contrasts between light and dark, and expressive facial expressions. He also showed the two figures very close up. Ter Brugghen had copied this style from the Italian painter Caravaggio, whose work he had seen in Rome.

Here, Ter Brugghen has painted the biblical story of St Peter’s liberation from prison. The angel is waking him and pointing upwards, as if to say that God has sent him. St Peter looks alarmed and folds his chained hands. Ter Brugghen created a very powerful painting with strong contrasts between light and dark, and expressive facial expressions. He also showed the two figures very close up. Ter Brugghen had copied this style from the Italian painter Caravaggio, whose work he had seen in Rome.

The Liberation of Peter https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_966.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

10.11.2025 08:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Portrait of a Married Couple

Portrait of a Married Couple

Portrait of a Married Couple https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_857.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

09.11.2025 18:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Scenes of elegant, revelling youngsters – ‘merry companies’ – were very popular at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The Amsterdam artist Pieter Codde is one of the painters who specialised in this genre. In this merry company, people are eating, drinking and making music. In the middle of the room, a woman in a fashionable black dress is dancing with a man wearing a Venetian mask and a fool’s costume. His two companions on the left are masked as well.

Scenes of elegant, revelling youngsters – ‘merry companies’ – were very popular at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The Amsterdam artist Pieter Codde is one of the painters who specialised in this genre. In this merry company, people are eating, drinking and making music. In the middle of the room, a woman in a fashionable black dress is dancing with a man wearing a Venetian mask and a fool’s costume. His two companions on the left are masked as well.

Merry Company with Masked Dancers https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_392.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

09.11.2025 16:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Four Elements: Water

The Four Elements: Water

The Four Elements: Water https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_1140.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

09.11.2025 13:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
One of Jan Steen’s favourite subjects was the doctor’s visit, or the sick girl. It is a humorous theme that was perfectly suited to Steen’s style. A languishing young girl is being examined by the doctor. He is being fooled, as the girl is pretending to suffer from a ‘wandering womb’, a condition that was taken very seriously by doctors in those days. The only remedy was for the patient to sleep with her lover. And that is exactly what this girl intends to do.

One of Jan Steen’s favourite subjects was the doctor’s visit, or the sick girl. It is a humorous theme that was perfectly suited to Steen’s style. A languishing young girl is being examined by the doctor. He is being fooled, as the girl is pretending to suffer from a ‘wandering womb’, a condition that was taken very seriously by doctors in those days. The only remedy was for the patient to sleep with her lover. And that is exactly what this girl intends to do.

The Sick Girl https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_167.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

09.11.2025 10:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
This painting of a colourful bouquet of thirty types of flowers is a masterly work by Ambrosius Bosschaert. He depicted the flowers meticulously, so that each one is easily recognisable. This painting provides an overview of the most beautiful flowers known to Bosschaert, including the tulip, which was still a rarity in Holland at the time. Bosschaert based his bouquet on separate sketches he had made throughout the year. This allowed him to compose a bouquet of flowers that in real life do not bloom at the same time.

This painting of a colourful bouquet of thirty types of flowers is a masterly work by Ambrosius Bosschaert. He depicted the flowers meticulously, so that each one is easily recognisable. This painting provides an overview of the most beautiful flowers known to Bosschaert, including the tulip, which was still a rarity in Holland at the time. Bosschaert based his bouquet on separate sketches he had made throughout the year. This allowed him to compose a bouquet of flowers that in real life do not bloom at the same time.

Vase of Flowers in a Window https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_679.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

09.11.2025 09:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
This subtle still-life is unique in the oeuvre of Pieter van Anraadt, as all of his other known works are mediocre portraits. He was just a beginner when he made this painting. Nevertheless, he did an amazing job of depicting the various materials: the earthenware jug, the coal pan, the glass of dark ale and the dish of tobacco and stone pipes. The soft light entering from the left is reflected by each object in its own particular way.

This subtle still-life is unique in the oeuvre of Pieter van Anraadt, as all of his other known works are mediocre portraits. He was just a beginner when he made this painting. Nevertheless, he did an amazing job of depicting the various materials: the earthenware jug, the coal pan, the glass of dark ale and the dish of tobacco and stone pipes. The soft light entering from the left is reflected by each object in its own particular way.

Still Life with Earthenware Jug and Clay Pipes https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_1045.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

08.11.2025 17:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Moses Showing the Tablets of the Law to the Israelites, with Portraits of Members of the Panhuys Family, their Relatives and Friends

Moses Showing the Tablets of the Law to the Israelites, with Portraits of Members of the Panhuys Family, their Relatives and Friends

Moses Showing the Tablets of the Law to the Israelites, with Portraits of Members of the Panhuys Family, their Relatives and Friends https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_249.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

08.11.2025 15:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Church at Veere

The Church at Veere

The Church at Veere https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_815.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

08.11.2025 13:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
This is Floris van Egmond, Count of Buren and Leerdam, and Lord of IJsselstein. He became stadholder of Holland, Zeeland and West-Friesland in 1518, and had this portrait painted by Jan Gossaert the following year. Gossaert paid great attention to Van Egmond’s fashionable clothing of white damask, gold brocade and sable. The insignia of the Order of the Golden Fleece, a prestigious order of knights of the Habsburg emperor, hangs on a velvet chain.

This is Floris van Egmond, Count of Buren and Leerdam, and Lord of IJsselstein. He became stadholder of Holland, Zeeland and West-Friesland in 1518, and had this portrait painted by Jan Gossaert the following year. Gossaert paid great attention to Van Egmond’s fashionable clothing of white damask, gold brocade and sable. The insignia of the Order of the Golden Fleece, a prestigious order of knights of the Habsburg emperor, hangs on a velvet chain.

Portrait of Floris van Egmond (1469-1539) https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_841.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

08.11.2025 11:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Vanitas Still Life

Vanitas Still Life

Vanitas Still Life https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_810.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

08.11.2025 10:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Dune Landscape with Haystack

Dune Landscape with Haystack

Dune Landscape with Haystack https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_970.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

07.11.2025 19:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Still Life with Tazza

Still Life with Tazza

Still Life with Tazza https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_1125.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

07.11.2025 17:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cornelis Troost was the leading Dutch painter of the eighteenth century. He had a theatrical background and painted narrative scenes filled with humorous details. Here we see a group of people going from house to house as they celebrate Epiphany, known in the Netherlands as <i>Driekoningen</i> (Three Kings). The revellers, who are dressed as the Three Kings of the Christmas story, sing traditional songs and carry a star-shaped lantern. Mothers have come out of their houses with their children to wonder at the gleaming light emanating from the star. Troost often worked with gouache (opaque watercolour with gum arabic) and pastel (soft chalk), a technique that was particularly popular in the eighteenth century.

Cornelis Troost was the leading Dutch painter of the eighteenth century. He had a theatrical background and painted narrative scenes filled with humorous details. Here we see a group of people going from house to house as they celebrate Epiphany, known in the Netherlands as <i>Driekoningen</i> (Three Kings). The revellers, who are dressed as the Three Kings of the Christmas story, sing traditional songs and carry a star-shaped lantern. Mothers have come out of their houses with their children to wonder at the gleaming light emanating from the star. Troost often worked with gouache (opaque watercolour with gum arabic) and pastel (soft chalk), a technique that was particularly popular in the eighteenth century.

Singing Round the Star on Twelfth Night https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_192.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

07.11.2025 13:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_316.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

07.11.2025 11:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Wounded Porus before Alexander the Great

The Wounded Porus before Alexander the Great

The Wounded Porus before Alexander the Great https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_834.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

07.11.2025 09:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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