The Leiden Collection on loan to H'ART Museum
March 10 2025
Picture: H'ART Museum
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The H'ART Museum in Amsterdam (formerly known as the Hermitage Amsterdam) will be displaying 75 works on loan from the Leiden Collection from next month onwards.
According to the museum's website:
To celebrate the city’s 750th birthday, eighteen works by Rembrandt – seventeen paintings and one drawing – are shown together in Amsterdam for the first time.
Other renowned artists in the exhibition include Frans Hals, Jan Steen, Ferdinand Bol, Gerard Dou, Frans van Mieris and Maria Schalcken. The cherry on top is a remarkable painting by Johannes Vermeer, restored especially for this occasion. Together, these influential artists paint a vivid picture of daily life in the Netherlands in the 17th century.
Showing off your wealth, strengthening your reputation with a self-portrait, growing old and wrinkled, or indulging in food, drink, literature and music: in 75 artworks, From Rembrandt to Vermeer sketches urban life in all its facets. People are at the heart of these paintings: both young and old, rich and poor, beautiful and ugly.
The show will run from 9th April until 24th August 2025.
