Rijksmuseum

Rijksmuseum

a museum in Amsterdam housing the national art collection of the Netherlands

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Rijksmuseum 

(State Museum), the largest art museum in the Netherlands. The Rijksmuseum was founded in Amsterdam in 1808. Its present building was constructed by P. J. H. Cuypers between 1877 and 1885. The museum is the repository of many Dutch paintings from the 15th through 19th centuries. Housed here are such important 17th-century Dutch masterpieces as Rembrandt’s Night Watch and The Syndics of the Cloth Guild, J. Vermeer’s Maidservant Pouring Milk and Alley, and J. van Ruisdael’s The Windmill Near Wijk. The museum also houses Dutch drawings, prints, sculpture, and applied arts; paintings of other European schools; and Asian art.

REFERENCE

Luttervelt, R. van. Holland’s musea. The Hague [1960].