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Title Company of Captain Reinier Reael, known as the 'Meagre Company' Year 1637 Artist Frans Hals ( Pieter Codde ) Technique Oil on canvas Dimensions 209 x 429 cm Just to see that painting would make the journey to Amsterdam worthwhile.' wrote Vincent...
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The Spendthrift Title The Spendthrift', Act III, Scene V, from the play of the same name by Thomas Asselijn Year 1741 Artist Cornelis Troost Technique Oil on panel Dimensions 68,5 x 86 cm This tableau shows a scene from the farce 'The Spendthrift or the...
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This is not a picture of a man smoking a pipe, but a picture of a painting of a man smoking a pipe. In front of the painting-within-a-painting hangs a green curtain on a copper rail. It is so realistic you might even mistake it for a real curtain - in...
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A young woman taking a bath, assisted by two servants. This is Bathsheba, a legendary beauty. Cornelis van Haarlem painted her in 1594. The story of the fair Bathsheba is told in the biblical Book of Samuel. One evening she was bathing in the garden....
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Year 1623 Artist Gerard van Honthorst A man is leaning out of a window, laughing. In one hand he has a violin and a bow; in the other a glass of wine. He is pushing the curtain - a Persian carpet - to the side. The man is wearing a fantasy costume: an...
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The man portrayed here, Dr Ephraim Bueno (1599-1665), was a well-known Jewish physician and man of letters. Rembrandt painted this sketch in oils in 1647. It is a preliminary study for an etching of Dr Bueno. It is the only known sketch in oils for a...
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Title The Peace Negotiations between Claudius Civilis and Cerealis Year c. 1660-70 Standing on opposite sides of a demolished bridge are two warriors. They are negotiating across the divide. The man on the right is Cerealis, recognisable as a Roman from...
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The story of the Massacre of the Innocents is found in the Bible. After the birth of Jesus, King Herod heard that a new king of the Jews had been born in Bethlehem. Having no way to recognise the child, he ordered his soldiers to kill all the boys in...
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A crowd has gathered outside a bookshop and lottery agency in Amsterdam's Kalverstraat. It is 25 October, 1779, and the sale of lottery tickets for the 66th General Lottery has begun. Men, bent on obtaining a ticket, push and shove around the entrance....
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Title The Bodies of the De Witt Brothers, Hanged at Groene Zoodje on Vijverberg in The Hague Artist Jan de Baen The 'Groene zoodje' on Vijverberg in The Hague, was, for a few days in August 1672, silent witness to this gruesome scene. Two naked bodies...
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