Magdalena was about thirty when her brother Simon proudly portrayed her. The border inscription praises her as a renowned female engraver. Magdalena’s likeness is flanked by the goddess Minerva, ...

The support consists of three horizontally grained oak planks (20.2, 28 and 26.7 cm), and has been thinned to a thickness of 0.7-0.9 cm and cradled. The thinning of the panel has exposed the dowel ...

Breech-loading rifle with a smooth barrel. It has a central firing mechanism of the Snider system: the cartridge is loaded at the breech, the striker hits a pin which strikes the percussion cap in the ...

Following five years of intensive research and the re-stretching of the painting, today a team of eight Rijksmuseum conservators started removing the varnish from The Night Watch. This marks the ...

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Antonij (Anton) Mauve (1838-1888) was born in Zaandam. At 16, he went to Haarlem where he was apprenticed to Pieter Frederik van Os, a specialist in painting cattle, followed by Wouter Verschuur who ...

Of all the self-portraits in which Rembrandt depicts emotions, this one is probably the most engaging. He looks startled here, with pursed lips and wide-open eyes. You see him slightly from below, so ...

Draughtsman, engraver and painter Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) was born in Mülbracht (now Bracht-am-Niederrhein) in Germany. In 1577, he followed his teacher, printer Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert, to ...

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Coorte produced mostly small, intimate still lifes. Through their simple subjects – asparagus or berries – these modest paintings stand out in stark contrast to the sumptuous still lifes that were in ...

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Even as an inexperienced young artist, Rembrandt did not shy away from experimenting. Here the light glances along his right cheek, while the rest of his face is veiled in shadow. It takes a while to ...