outer size: depth 9.5 cm (support incl. frame) In the present work there is a difference in degree of finish between the troop of horsemen at the head of the procession and the group of the two ...

support: height 14.1 cm × width 18.3 cm outer size: height 28.7 cm × width 33.2 cm × depth 4.1 cm (support incl. frame) François seems to have worked in the idiom of the prints designed by his father ...

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The Rijksmuseum has acquired a first edition of Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, her illustrated natural history of Suriname. Published in 1705, it is Merian’s ...

It is not the profusion of vegetables, fruit, meat, poultry and kitchenware displayed here by these housemaids that forms the main theme of this painting. It is Jesus visiting Mary and Martha, shown ...

In assuming power, the mayors of Amsterdam were inspired by the ancient Roman Republic. This is powerfully expressed in this imposing portrait bust of Andries de Graeff. With his cloak wrapped to ...

This shepherdess comes straight out of Arcadia, a fairytale realm celebrated in 17th-century Dutch poems, inhabited by beautiful shepherds and shepherdesses. These verses glorified simple country life ...

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Daniel was awarded a high court position by the Babylonian king Darius. His envious enemies devised a ruse to have Daniel thrown to the lions; however, the wild creatures left the praying Daniel ...

The ultimate challenge facing a 17th-century still-life painter was to render various materials in a convincing fashion. Everything had to appear real: a contemporary aptly coined this as ‘semblance ...

pen and brown ink, with brown wash and opaque white, on paper toned with a light brown wash; framing line in brown ink In a bedroom, Rembrandt’s wife, Saskia, is sitting up in her four-poster bed, ...

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