Rijksmuseum Download Paintings

In contrast to Rembrandt, Vermeer left a remarkably small oeuvre with about 35 paintings. As his paintings are generally considered the most prized treasures of every museum collection, Vermeer paintings are rarely lent out.

Preparations for the exhibition are currently underway. The research focuses on Vermeer's artistry, his artistic choices and motivations for his compositions, as well as into the creative process of his paintings.

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For this exhibition we work closely with the Mauritshuis in The Hague. A team of curators, restorers and natural scientists to examine in depth the seven paintings by Vermeer in Dutch possession. Works by Vermeer from other collections are also involved in this project.

We bring the magic of Vermeer to life in this online exploration of all of his 37 paintings. Let Stephen Fry or Joy Delima take you past the most beautiful details and the most intriguing stories. Or get to work yourself and discover the stories behind the paintings. Zoom in, compare and create your own collection. What discoveries will you make?

The collection of the Rijksmuseum was built over a period of 200 years and did not originate from a royal collection incorporated into a national museum. Its origins were modest, with its collection fitting into five rooms at in Huis ten Bosch palace in The Hague. Although the seventeenth century was beginning to be recognized as the key period in Dutch art, the museum did not then hold paintings by Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Jan Steen, Johannes Vermeer, or Jacob van Ruisdael. The collection was built up by purchase and donation. Napoleon had carried off the stadholder's collection to Paris; the paintings were returned to The Netherlands in 1815 but housed in the Mauritshuis in The Hague rather than the Rijksmuseum. With the founding of the Rijksmuseum in 1885, holdings from other entities were brought together to establish the Rijksmuseum's major collections.[17]

On 31 May 1800, the National Art Gallery (Dutch: Nationale Kunst-Galerij), precursor of the Rijksmuseum, opened in Huis ten Bosch in The Hague. The museum exhibited around 200 paintings and historic objects from the collections of the Dutch stadtholders.[1][18] In 1805, the National Art Gallery moved within The Hague to the Prince William V Gallery, on the Buitenhof.[1] In 1806, the Kingdom of Holland was established by Napoleon Bonaparte. On the orders of king Louis Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, the museum moved to Amsterdam in 1808. Paintings owned by that city, such as The Night Watch by Rembrandt, became part of the collection. In 1809, the museum opened in the Royal Palace in Amsterdam.[1]

In 1817, the museum moved to the Trippenhuis. The Trippenhuis turned out to be unsuitable as a museum. In 1820, the historical objects were moved to the Mauritshuis in The Hague and in 1838, the 19th-century paintings "of living masters" were moved to King Louis Bonaparte's former summer palace Paviljoen Welgelegen in Haarlem.[1]

"Did you know that a large, new building will take the place of the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam? That's fine with me; the Trippenhuis is too small, and many paintings hang in such a way that one can't see them properly."

The collection contains more than 2,000 paintings from the Dutch Golden Age by notable painters such as Jacob van Ruisdael, Frans Hals, Johannes Vermeer, Jan Steen, Rembrandt, and Rembrandt's pupils.[3]

in 2019, to mark the 350th anniversary of the artist's death, the museum mounted an exhibition of all the works by Rembrandt in its collection. Consisting of 22 paintings, 60 drawings and over 300 prints, this was the first time they had all been exhibited together. Principal features were the marriage portraits of Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit along with the presentation of the Night Watch immediately before its planned restoration. The exhibition ran from February to June.[40]

After previous temporary exhibitions on art historical themes, the Rijksmuseum in 2021 presented an exhibition on the history of slavery in the Dutch colonial Empire, with more than a million people forced into slavery.[41] It covered trans-Atlantic slavery from the 17th to the 19th century in Suriname, Brazil and the Caribbean, as well as Dutch colonial slavery in South Africa and Asia, where the Dutch West India Company (WIC) and the Dutch East India Company (VOC) were engaged in slavery. Besides objects, such as a wooden block for locking slaves, paintings, archival documents, oral sources, poems and music, the exhibition also presented connections of the slavery system at home in the Netherlands.[42] In the permanent collection, labels were added to 77 paintings and objects that had been seen as symbols of the country's wealth and power to indicate previously hidden links to slavery.[43]

Breitner was a well-respected and admired artist in his day. He was especially known for his paintings of street scenes and thought of himself as a painter of the people. He was an early advocate of the new, radical style coming from Paris, called Impressionism, and became a close companion of Vincent van Gogh.

Petria Noble is senior paintings conservator and the head of paintings conservation at the Rijksmuseum. Her projects include researching new imaging techniques for the investigation of late Rembrandt paintings.

Annelies van Loon is a paintings research scientist at the Rijksmuseum. She develops and applies macroscopic and microscopic imaging techniques for the technical investigation of Old Master paintings.

In many ways, art depends on its historical and cultural context for interpretation. More so than any other culture in Western Art, the Dutch created paintings that pulled from real life. It makes perfect sense then for the Rijksmuseum to reunite the art with the historical portion.

Aside from the main gallery, or Gallery of Honour, dedicated to the Rembrandts, the Vermeers and other masterpieces, most paintings were mixed in where appropriate, so domestic scenes were alongside furniture, individual and group portraits with components of the vast Dutch maritime trading empire and pieces from Southeast Asia along with the trappings of colonialism.

Seeing a Johannes Vermeer painting is a singular opportunity. The 17th-century Dutch painter behind works like Girl With a Pearl Earring produced a relatively small number of paintings, only about 35 of which are known to exist today.

Uncertainties and mysteries are par for the course when it comes to Vermeer. Many of his paintings are thought to be lost, and questions still remain about his life. Vermeer died in debt and relative obscurity in 1675 at age 43. His paintings, too, have a mysterious air. The artist opted for dark, isolated scenes portraying everyday Dutch life in the 17th century.

Bicyclists passing under the Rijksmuseum ride into the sunlight in Amsterdam, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. The Vermeer exhibit Rijksmuseum unveils its blockbuster exhibition of 28 paintings by 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer drawn from galleries around the world. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Johannes Vermeer

Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) lived and worked in Delft. His work is best known for his tranquil, introverted interior scenes, his unprecedented use of bright, colorful light and his convincing illusionism. In contrast to Rembrandt, Vermeer left a remarkably small oeuvre of 37 paintings.

Looking at these paintings in person rather than on a computer screen reveals detail that cannot be reproduced: individual brushstrokes, texture, and so on. It was a joy to see these Rijksmuseum highlights again after so many years. The last time I was in the Rijksmuseum was sometime in the late 1980s.

Even here, in the in-tact town of Dordrecht, the aftermath of this horrible natural disaster can be felt. The woman in a green dress, who pulls a young boy behind her, also appears to be heading to the city gates. Perhaps she, too, is seeking refuge from the storm. Note how her son has the proportions of a very small man. His face is mature, and his stance, upright. This is typical of Dutch depictions of the human form at this time. You may recognize similar man-children from other paintings of the 15th century. Once the renaissance is in full swing (a movement that was strong in the north as well as in Italy!) we begin to see age-appropriate depictions of children.

It must have taken the artist weeks and weeks on end to make these works, which resemble meticulous, accurate engravings. As a visitor, be careful of the security barrier, but get as close as possible so as not to miss the incredible detail (e.g., the victims of the burning ship plunged into the sea; the survivors raising their arms in surrender). The details are so accurate that naval historians have been able to reconstruct historical events from the works. Van de Velde achieved this degree of verisimilitude because he witnessed the battles firsthand from a little boat, seen in the foreground of one of the paintings.

Most people know the Dutch still-life paintings depicting flowers in a vase. Jan van Mekeren was a master cabinetmaker who produced cabinets and tables with flower bouquets made from veneer instead of paint. The veneers were made by cutting thin slices of woods of many different colors, ranging from white (holly) to brown (walnut), yellow (burberry), purple (purpleheart), and black (ebony). Other colors like green, red, and blue were made by staining light veneers with dyes that were also used for coloring textiles. The flowers, leaves, stems, butterflies, and birds were cut out of these different veneers with a fine fret-saw and assembled like a jigsaw puzzle. Individual pieces of each flower were partly scorched in hot sand to create a shading effect, and, as a result, a three-dimensional image. The whole pattern was glued onto the oak carcass of which the actual cabinet was constructed, scraped, and sanded until the surface was smooth and finished with several coats of beeswax to obtain a glossy, protective finishing layer. ff782bc1db