This gem of a museum, housed in a graceful seventeenth-century lake-side mansion in The Hague, has a fine collection of Dutch and Flemish art. King William I gave the collection to the Dutch state after it was returned from France, and the house and its contents were officially opened as a museum in 1822. Among its treasures are self portraits by Rembrandt as well as The anatomy lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp, Vermeer's View of Delft (recently restored), and paintings by Holbein, Rubens, Frans Hals and Van Dyck. Also present are some of the finest examples of landscape and still life paintings to have been produced in the Dutch Golden Age.

The Mauritshuis Museum: Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis and Gallery Prince William V

Arts & Photography

Mauritshuis (Hague, Netherlands)

Buvelot, Quentin

Museum Senior Curators

Broos, B. P. J.

Havell, Jane

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Sothebys Pubns

During the seventeenth century, Dutch artists were unparalleled in their dedication to depicting ordinary people doing everyday things. Genre painting was the preeminent expression of this dedication, offering candid glimpses into the peasant cottages and village courtyards of the Dutch Golden Age, each painting lit with the period’s vibrant color palette and rich with radiant natural light. This superb collection by the curators of an accompanying exhibition focuses on a selection of works of Dutch genre painting from the Royal Collection’s holdings. Johannes Vermeer, Jan Steen, Gerrit Dou, Gabriel Metsu, and Pieter de Hooch are among the masters whose works are finely reproduced here. While the subject matter may be ordinary—the preparation of food, the bustle of a busy market, the enjoyment of taverns and town festivities—the meticulously documented details often allude to a work's deeper meaning or to moral messages that would have been familiar to the contemporary viewer. The book explores these hidden moral messages, as well as the artists' penchant for clever visual puns. Readers interested in the Dutch Golden Age or seventeenth-century art will welcome this volume. Individual essays on each painting, close-up photography showing important details, and a selection of comparative images add to the book's richness and provide valuable context.

Masters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer

Shawe-Taylor, Desmond

History & Criticism

Royal Collection Trust

Celebrating the enduring British taste for collecting Dutch paintings from the long seventeenth century, this exhibition catalog will explore why and how this particular type of art was desired, commissioned, and displayed, through the consideration of Golden Age masterpieces from a number of National Trust houses.This catalog will be published to accompany the first ever exhibition of Golden Age Dutch pictures in the collection of the National Trust, which will be shown at the Mauritshuis in The Hague, the Holburne Museum in Bath and at Petworth House in West Sussex (2018–19). It will feature portraits, still lifes, religious pictures, maritime paintings, landscapes, genre paintings and history pictures, painted by celebrated artists such as Rembrandt, Lievens, Hobbema, Cuyp, Hondecoeter, De Heem, Ter Borch and Metsu, as well as less well-known artists such as De Baen and Van Diest. With over 350 heritage properties in the UK, the National Trust cares for one of the world’s largest and most significant holdings of art and its collection of Dutch Old Masters is particularly impressive. The catalog will include essays by Quentin Buvelot (chief curator at the Mauritshuis) and David Taylor (curator of pictures and sculpture at the National Trust). The authors will also discuss other aspects of the influence of Dutch culture in British country houses (using National Trust examples) – on furniture, garden design, and print and ceramics collecting.

Prized Possessions: Dutch Paintings from National Trust Houses

Taylor, David

Paul Holberton Publishing

This catalogue of Dutch paintings from the collection of Eijk and Rose-Marie de Mol van Otterloo presents some of the finiest paintings from the Golden Age.

Made in Holland: Highlights from the Collection of Eijk and Rose-Marie De Mol van Otterloo

W-Books

A complete description of Coorte's oeuvre - the first since 1977.

Still Lifes of Adriaen Coorte: 1683-1707

Chronicles the life and work of Philips Wouwerman

Philips Wouwerman 1619-1668

Duparc, Frederik

Reference

Besides being justly regarded as the greatest landscape painter of the seventeenth century, Van Ruisdael was also the genre's most versatile exponent.

Jacob van Ruisdael: Paints Bentheim

Individual Artists

Depicts Eckhout's time in Brazil when he was making life-size illustrations of the local Brazilian population and creating still lifes composed of exotic plants, flowers and fruits.

Albert Eckhout A Dutch Artist in Brazil /anglais

Waanders

This splendid  edition depicts and describes more than 230 painted portraits belonging to the renowned collection of the Mauritshuis in the Hague. Aside from portraits by the three great masters of seventeenth century Dutch painting, Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer, including such world-famous works as  The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp  and  Girl with a Pearl Earring , the book explores many other paintings from the fifteenth to eighteenth century. An introductory essay by R. Ekkart, an authority in the field of portrait painting, describes the genesis of the collection and explains the links between various portraits in the Mauritshuis collection.

Portraits In The Mauritshuis, 1430-1790

Broos, Ben

Suchtelen, Ariane Van

Frans van Mieris the Elder is one of the most renowned representatives of the Dutch fijnschilders (fine painters). In their works, these seventeenth-century painters attempted to attain a perfect visual reproduction of materials - so perfect, in fact, that detecting an individual brushstroke in their paintings is almost, if not entirely, impossible. Not until several decades had passed would museum visitors and art historians once again appreciate the qualities of Van Mieris and the other fine painters. This beautifully designed and easy-to-read book includes all of Van Mieris' thirty-five paintings and ten of his drawings reproduced in full colour and accompanied by brief explanatory texts. Also included are essays about the artist's life, the development of his oeuvre, and appreciation of it down through the centuries.

Frans Van Mieris: 1635 - 1681

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