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Mauritshuis
A small, elegant 17th-century mansion in The Hague holds some of the most famous paintings in the Netherlands: Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp and Fabritius's Goldfinch.
History of the museum
Johan Maurits, a Dutch governor in Brazil, had the house built in the 1640s. It became a museum in 1822, when the Dutch government bought it to show the royal art collection. In 2014 it reopened after a two-year renovation and a new underground extension. Donna Tartt's novel The Goldfinch, from 2013, made one of its paintings famous.
Top pieces
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Girl with a Pearl Earring Johannes Vermeer, 1665 -
View of Delft Johannes Vermeer, 1660 -
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp Rembrandt, 1632 -
The Goldfinch Carel Fabritius, 1654
In our gallery from here (11)
Girl with a Pearl EarringJohannes Vermeer · 1665
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes TulpRembrandt · 1632
View of DelftJohannes Vermeer · 1661
The GoldfinchCarel Fabritius · 1654
The PropositionJudith Leyster · 1631
The BullPaulus Potter · 1647
The Young MotherGerrit Dou · 1658
Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and PretzelsClara Peeters · 1615
Girl eating oystersJan Steen · 1658
As the Old Sing, So Pipe the YoungJan Steen · 1665
Man reading letter to a womanPieter de Hooch · 1675