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Top 10 Works
1 St Elizabeth's Day Flood
2 The Night Watch
3 The Jewish Bride
4 The Milkmaid
5 Gallant Conversation
6 The Windmill at Wijk
7 Winter Landscape with
Skaters
8 Delftware
9 Dolls House of Petronella
Oortman
0 Portrait of Woman in
Turkish Costume
Gallant
Conversation
In the 17th century,
paintings of everyday
scenes, called genre
paintings, became very
popular. In this one, by
Gerard Ter Borch (1655),
a scruffy dog, a candle
and a bed convey sexual
meaning, and the man
appears to hold up a coin.
The Windmill at
Wijk
In this impressive painting
(1670) by Jacob van
Ruisdael, a calm scene
becomes a dramatic
picture, full of excitement.
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Winter Landscape
with Skaters
Dutch landscape artist
Hendrick Avercamp
specialized in winter
scenes packed with
delightful detail, such as
this one painted in 1608.
The longer you gaze at it,
the more you notice.
Delftware
The
Rijksmuseum has
a superb collection
of Delftware,
including an
astonishing
pyramid vase
(c. 1700) more
than 1 m (3.2 ft)
high, with spouts
for displaying
highly-prized
tulips (right) .
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Gallery Guide
There are three
entrances, two at the
front, either side of the
central driveway which
runs under the building,
and one in the Philips
Wing on Hobbemastraat.
At peak visiting times,
it's quicker to use this
entrance, housing
Asiatic Art, European
Paintings, Costume and
Textiles and temporary
exhibitions, then make
your way through to the
main building. The
museum's highlight
collections - Dutch
Paintings and Dutch
17th-century Sculpture
and Decorative Arts -
are on the first floor.
Dolls House of
Petronella Oortman
An exquisitely detailed
17th-century miniature
Dutch house, belonging
not to a child but an adult.
Portrait of Woman
in Turkish Costume
Swiss-born Jean-Etienne
Liotard was a portrait artist
who used pastels with
great skill. After a spell
living in Istanbul, he
dressed as a Turk, and he
liked to array his sitters in
Turkish costume as well -
as in this subtle and
delicate painting of 1745.
For more on Dutch Artists See pp46-7
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