A Day In The Life...

By TonAntoonson

From Rembrandt to Vermeer...

Today we visited the exhibition “From Rembrandt to Vermeer, Masterpieces from the Leiden Collection”... @ H’ART-museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
 
From the website of the H’ART-museum (the former Hermitage Amsterdam-museum : 
An unique and intimate glimpse into the 17th-century Netherlands through the eyes of the great Dutch Masters.
Eighteen works by Rembrandt (seventeen paintings and one drawing) are shown together. Other artists in the exhibition include Frans Hals, Jan Steen, Ferdinand Bol, Gerard Dou, and Frans van Mieris. Also 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 1600’s.
The Leiden Collection was founded by the 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 world.

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