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Fishing for Souls

Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne, 1614, painting, SK-A-447

Protestants (left) and Catholics (right) are competing for adherents by a river. The politicsal nature of the struggle between Protestants and Catholics is reflected in the presence of powerful rivals on either side. Left: Stadholder Prince Maurice and his brother Frederick Henry with their allies.…

On display in room 2.5

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