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A Pelican and other Birds near a…
Melchior d'Hondecoeter, c. 1680, painting, SK-A-175
Melchior d’Hondecoeter specialised in depicting birds. Here he painted a pelican, various ducks, a cassowary (left), a flamingo and an African crested crane. D’Hondecoeter was commissioned to paint the work by Stadholder William III and his wife Mary. It was intended for Het Loo palace, where…
On display in room 2.22
Marten Soolmans
Rembrandt van Rijn, 1634, painting, SK-A-5033
Oopjen Coppit
Rembrandt van Rijn, 1634, painting, SK-C-1768
Woman in a Large Hat
Caesar van Everdingen, c. 1645 - c. 1650, painting, SK-A-5005
This woman with her wide sunhat and seductive, bared shoulder is similar to the enticing shepherdesses that often appear in Dutch paintings. She proffers a small basket of fruit to the viewer in an unmistakably erotic gesture. The picture was originally intended to be displayed high on a wall, above…
On display in room 2.11
Adolf and Catharina Croeser, Known…
Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1655, painting, SK-A-4981
Legs spread, hand on hip, Croeser sits comfortably on the stoop of his house on Oude Delft in Delft. His 13-year-old daughter Catharina is looking directly at us. Jan Steen added a narrative element to the portrait: paupers asking the wealthy grain merchant for alms. Two years later, in 1657,…
View of the Golden Bend in the…
Gerrit Berckheyde, 1671 - 1672, painting, SK-A-5003
Here we see the canal as it was, shortly before 1672. The crisis that would mark that year had yet to break, and construction is proceeding apace. One house in the background is wrapped in scaffolding; at the start of Spiegelstraat workers are laying paving stones, while building materials lie round…
On display in room 2.27
Allegory on the Abdication of…
Frans Francken (II), c. 1635 - c. 1640, painting, SK-A-112
On display in room 2.1
Memorial Portrait of Moses ter…
Gerard ter Borch (II), Gesina ter Borch, 1667 - 1669, painting, SK-A-4908
On display in room 2.15
Portrait of Jan Valckenburgh and an…
Daniel Vertangen, c. 1660, painting, SK-A-4969
On display in room 2.9