Renowned throughout history, this oil-on-canvas by Johannes Vermeer features a domestic kitchen maid who is making dairy products. Featuring intensely saturated blue and yellow tones, the painting shows the artist’s beautiful handling of natural light.
Rijksmuseum Paintings Collection
The Rijksmuseum houses an extensive collection of Dutch art from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Visitors can see works by famous Dutch masters such as Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Van Gogh. The artworks are spread across multiple galleries at the Rijksmuseum.
The Milkmaid
The Night Watch
One of the most famous paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, The Night Watch by Rembrandt is highly regarded due to its massive size, the depiction of the perception of motion, and the dramatic use of shadows and light.
The Jewish Bride
In this painting, Rembrandt depicts a man bestowing a necklace upon a woman. The painting was named in the 19th century, when an art collector identified the subject as a father bestowing a necklace upon his daughter at her wedding.
Syndics of the Drapers’ Guild
The last great collective portrait by Rembrandt features six men elected to assess the quality of cloth sold by weavers to the drapers’ guild. The men are seen appraising a Persian-style cloth while referring to a swatch book.
Shop Window
This 1894 Impressionistic painting by Issac Israels reveals the fascination for modern life, captured by the couple looking into the brightly lit shop.
Young Woman with a Fan
Isabella, or Young Woman with a Fan, was painted using photographs as reference material. Simon Maris made several portraits of young Isabella, evident from pictures and documents in her archive.
The Water Drinkers
This still life painting with bread, a water caraf, a pipe and a mirror was painted by Piet Meiners, a well-known Dutch watercolourist, etcher, painter and draftsman.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem
One of Rembrandt's early masterpieces and most renowned works of his Leiden period, this painting depicts Prophet Jeremiah lamenting the ruin of Jerusalem whose destruction he had prophesied.
The Crucifixion
Choosing to depict the mountain on which Christ was crucified from a high viewpoint, Oostsanen represents successive episodes of the Passion of Christ simultaneously in the painting, a convention often used in medieval painting.
Interior with Woman Sewing
True to the saying ‘The devil finds work for idle hands’, an important value in the Dutch ethic of piety and hard work, Hendriks portrays a woman sewing while reading a book.
Landscape with Cattle Driver and Shepherd
Unlike his famous predecessor Cuyp, Jacob van Strij used more colourful accents and infused the sky with a lovely golden glow.
