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Sharing artworks from the Mauritshuis Museum, Netherlands.
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The Tomb of William the Silent in the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_58.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
In the Nieuwe Kerk, or New Church, in the city of Delft, some visitors are looking at the tomb of William of Orange, the Father of the Fatherland. Our view of the monument is obstructed by the large white column bearing seventeenth-century graffiti. Houckgeest was an important innovator of the Dutch church interior. He was the first artist to depict spaces using a diagonal perspective, rather than in their length or breadth, thus giving the scene a more accidental, natural effect.
December 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Vanitas Still Life https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_654.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
Vanitas Still Life
December 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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View of Dordrecht from Papendrecht https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_551.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
View of Dordrecht from Papendrecht
December 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Allegory of Peace https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_1042.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
The lady sitting here on her throne represents Peace. A suit of armour lies unused at her feet, and she is holding a palm branch, while a white dove of peace is fluttering up into the air. Mattheus Terwesten is a lesser-known painter, who made many of this type of decorative scene. They were often part of an interior and, like this painting, were incorporated into the panelling.
December 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Travellers outside an Inn https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_789.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
A motley company have gathered outside the inn. Men are sitting or lying on the grass, relaxed and chatting together. A woman is sitting high atop the wagon looking down at the beggar nearby, while a cripple propels himself along the road with blocks of wood. Isack van Ostade specialised in this sort of peasant scene. He was the younger brother of Adriaen van Ostade.
December 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Apollo https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_1135.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
Apollo
December 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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The Oude Kerk in Amsterdam during a Service https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_824.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
The Oude Kerk in Amsterdam during a Service
December 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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View of the Rhine near Hoog-Elten https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_838.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
View of the Rhine near Hoog-Elten
December 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Interior of the Laurenskerk in Rotterdam https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_856.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
Interior of the Laurenskerk in Rotterdam
December 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Portrait of Jacob Trip (c.1576-1661) https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_90.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
This is Jacob Trip, at the age of 84. He is the forefather of one of the most important merchant families of Holland. Despite his advancing years, the elderly Trip – who had made a fortune in the international arms trade – exudes great power. Trip lived in Dordrecht, where he commissioned Nicolaes Maes to paint this portrait. Maes came from Dordrecht, but lived for some years in Amsterdam, where he studied with Rembrandt. Rembrandt also painted a portrait of Trip as an old man, and one of his wife, Marghareta de Geer.
December 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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A Hunting Party near the Hofvijver in The Hague, Seen from the Buitenhof https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_690.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
A Hunting Party near the Hofvijver in The Hague, Seen from the Buitenhof
December 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_1203.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
In this still-life, a table is laid with cheeses, pretzels and figs, alongside costly objects like a gilded Venetian glass and a Chinese dish. The Antwerp painter Clara Peeters was one of the first food still-life painters, and her ‘banketjes’ or banquet pieces had a great influence on the painters of the Northern Netherlands. Besides putting her signature on the silver bridal knife, Peeters also painted herself. In the pewter lid of the earthenware jug, you can see the reflection of a woman’s face with a white cap. This is Clara’s self-portrait.
December 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Self-Portrait https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_194.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
The 49-year-old Troost portrays himself here as a serious and confident painter. He is at his easel in his studio, holding his palette, brushes and painter’s stick. Troost, who worked in Amsterdam, had been an actor for a couple of years before becoming a painter. He painted many scenes from farcical plays, but was also a master of the more serious genre. He shows this in the painting on the easel, which is probably a scene from a play by the Dutch poet Vondel.
December 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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The Quarry https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_391.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
The Quarry
December 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Interior of the Rembrandt Room in the Mauritshuis in 1884 https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_1055.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
Interior of the Rembrandt Room in the Mauritshuis in 1884
December 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Battle Scene https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_219.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
Wouwerman was the leading horse painter of the seventeenth century, and painted mainly hunting scenes and landscapes with horsemen. This battle scene is his largest painting. The horses, cavalrymen and infantry form an almost inextricable tangle. Only the rider in the red jacket on the white horse really stands out. In the eighteenth century, Wouwerman’s paintings were in great demand from the European elite. Stadholder Prince Willem V of Orange had no fewer than nine of them – they now form part of the collection of the Mauritshuis.
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Portrait of a Man https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_1068.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
Troost, the most important Dutch painter of the eighteenth century, is known mainly for his theatrical scenes. But he also made elegant portraits of well-to-do citizens, such as this unknown man. Troost paid a great deal of attention to depicting fabrics like the blue velvet of the cloak, with white wig powder on the shoulders. The book the man is holding so pointedly shows that he is a well-read gentleman.
December 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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A Child of the Honigh Family on its Deathbed https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_603.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
A Child of the Honigh Family on its Deathbed
December 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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View of the Dam and the Damrak in Amsterdam https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_803.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
View of the Dam and the Damrak in Amsterdam
December 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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The Epic Poem https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_733.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
This ceiling painting comes from a house in Leiden (Rapenburg 48) and has been hanging here since 1912. Apollo, the classical god of the arts, is depicted on the oval centrepiece. He is surrounded by his nine muses, who stand for the various artistic disciplines. The four grisailles around the centrepiece represent the elegy, the comedy, the pastoral song and the epos. In the eighteenth century, the Amsterdam artist Jacob de Wit was the leading expert in this type of illusionist tour de force.
December 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Still Life with a Wicker Jug https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_601.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
Still Life with a Wicker Jug
December 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Landscape with Bridge, known as 'The Small Bridge' https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_566.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
Landscape with Bridge, known as 'The Small Bridge'
December 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Study of Two Brazilian Tortoises https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_957.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
Johan Maurits, bestuurder van de Hollandse kolonie in Brazilië en bewoner van het Mauritshuis, nam verschillende kunstenaars mee naar Zuid-Amerika. Hij liet ze de bevolking, de flora en fauna en het landschap vast te leggen. Eckhout was één van deze kunstenaars. Nauwkeurig schilderde hij twee schildpadden met hun geschubde koppen en het typische, geometrische patroon van de schilden. De dieren staan agressief tegenover elkaar, klaar voor de aanval.
December 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Landscape with Salmacis and Hermaphroditus https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_776.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
Landscape with Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
December 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Hunters at Rest https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_222.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
Hunters at Rest
December 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM