Exhibition - H'ART Museum
From Rembrandt to Vermeer, Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection
H’ART Museum presents: The Leiden Collection. A unique and intimate glimpse into the 17th-century Netherlands through the eyes of the great Dutch Masters.
Student: €17.50
Free for: Youth up to 17 years, Museum Pass, VriendenLoterij VIP-KAART, I amsterdam City Card, GoCity, Stadspas, ICOM. Members of H'ART Museum always enjoy free entrance and do not need to reserve time slot.
We strongly advice to reserve e-ticket/ time slot for guaranteed access to the exhibition.
To celebrate Amsterdam’s 750th birthday, eighteen works by Rembrandt—seventeen paintings and one drawing—are shown together in the city for the first time.
Other renowned artists in the exhibition include Frans Hals, Jan Steen, Ferdinand Bol, Gerard Dou, and Frans van Mieris. Not to be missed is the only painting in private hands by Johannes Vermeer, conserved especially for this occasion. Together, these influential artists paint a vivid picture of daily life in the Netherlands in the 1600s.
In 75 artworks, From Rembrandt to Vermeer sketches many facets of urban life from enjoying food, drink, reading, and music to aging gracefully, raising children, and fashioning portraits or self-portraits. Organized thematically, the exhibition has people (young and old, rich and poor, ideal and real) at its heart.
The Leiden Collection
Founded by French-American collector Dr. Thomas S. Kaplan and his wife Daphne Recanati Kaplan, The Leiden Collection is one of the world’s largest and most important private collections of Dutch 17th-century art. With its focus on portraits, history paintings, and genre scenes, The Leiden Collection functions as a ‘lending library’ for Old Master paintings, and has loaned its works to more than ninety museums across the globe.
Women in the picture
The exhibition depicts many women, from wealthy matrons to goddesses to ordinary citizens. Particularly noteworthy is the inclusion of a painting by Maria Schalcken, one of the few women in her time known to be working as a painter. Dutch writer Tessel ten Zweege has created a contemporary storyline in response to the experience of women in the 17th-century Netherlands.