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The Singel Bridge at the…
George Hendrik Breitner, 1898, painting, SK-A-3580
Breitner often took photos when preparing a painting. Several preparatory photos for this painting are also known. The way the woman is walking directly towards us and the way the picture is cropped gives it a photographic feel. Originally, Breitner’s subject was a maid, but following the negative…
On display in room 1.18
The Battle of Waterloo
Jan Willem Pieneman, 1824, painting, SK-A-1115
Emperor Napoleon met his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. This painting – the largest at the Rijksmuseum – shows the moment when the tide turned: the British general Wellington hears that the Prussian army is approaching. Victory, and an end to twenty years of war, is at hand. The…
On display in room 1.12
A Windmill on a Polder Waterway,…
Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël, c. 1889, painting, SK-A-1505
‘Our country is colourful, juicy, fat. (...) I repeat, our country is not dull, not even in dull weather, the dunes are not dull either’, Constant Gabriël wrote in a letter. Unlike many artists of the Hague School, he preferred painting fine summer days. Here there are two: the grass, sky and…
On display in room 1.18
Meadow near Oosterbeek
Gerard Bilders, 1860, painting, SK-A-2298
On display in room 1.18
Portrait of Raden Syarif Bustaman…
Friedrich Carl Albert Schreuel (attributed to), c. 1840, painting, SK-A-4703
On display in room 1.17
The Gulf of Naples with the Island…
Josephus Augustus Knip, 1818, painting, SK-A-1058
On display in room 1.12
Donkey Rides on the Beach
Isaac Israels, c. 1890 - c. 1901, painting, SK-A-3597
Landscape with a Thunderstorm…
Willem Roelofs (I), 1850, painting, SK-A-4868
The Canal at ’s-Graveland
Pieter Gerardus van Os, 1818, painting, SK-A-3230
On display in room 1.14
Shipwreck off a Rocky Coast
Wijnand Nuijen, c. 1837, painting, SK-A-4644
On display in room 1.14