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Portrait of a Girl Dressed in Blue
Johannes Cornelisz. Verspronck, 1641, painting, SK-A-3064
What made this such a popular portrait? That it shows a pretty child dressed in her finest clothes? As was usual at the time, the girl actually has an adult appearance. Her facial expression is all that shows she is playing the role. Unfortunately, we no longer know who she was.
On display in Gallery of Honour
Woman Reading a Letter
Johannes Vermeer, c. 1663, painting, SK-C-251
In a quiet, private moment, a young woman stands, engrossed in reading a letter. It is morning, and she is still wearing her blue nightrobe. All the other colours are subordinate to its radiant lapis lazuli; yellow and red hardly make an appearance. Vermeer rendered the different effects of the cool…
On display in Gallery of Honour
The Holy Kinship
Geertgen tot Sint Jans (workshop of), c. 1495, painting, SK-A-500
Christ’s family is gathered together in this fictional medieval church: the Holy Family, known in Dutch as the holy ‘maagschap’, an old word for kinship. Left, in a blue robe, the Virgin Mary is seated with Jesus, and alongside, her mother Anna. Behind are the two husbands: Joseph and Joachim.…
On display in room 0.1
Madonna of Humility
Fra Angelico, c. 1440, painting, SK-A-3011
On display in room 0.2
Portrait of Machteld Muilman
Frans van der Mijn, c. 1745 - c. 1747, painting, SK-A-2249
On display in room 1.5
Orestes and Pylades Disputing at…
Pieter Lastman, 1614, painting, SK-A-2354
On display in room 2.8
Still Life with Flowers in a Glass
Jan Brueghel (I), c. 1602, painting, SK-A-2102
On display in room 2.3
Portrait of Raden Syarif Bustaman…
Friedrich Carl Albert Schreuel (attributed to), c. 1840, painting, SK-A-4703
On display in room 1.17
‘Arrangement in Yellow and Gray’:…
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, c. 1876 - c. 1878, painting, SK-A-1902
On display in room 1.18
An Amsterdam Canal House Garden
Cornelis Troost, c. 1740 - 1745, painting, SK-A-2576
On display in room 1.1