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Rijksmuseum

11,211 works

Brown wash study of a muscular nude man seen from behind, pushing against collapsing temple columns above rubble.

Triumph over Sin: Samson Destroys the Temple of the Philistines

Maarten van Heemskerck, c. 1550 - c. 1560

Candlelit banquet painting: a lute player and seated guests gather around a table with roast meat and pewter jugs.

The Marriage at Cana

Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen, 1530

Memorial panel of nine kneeling women in veils, a woman with a jar, an angel holding a heraldic shield, and a distant landsca

Memorial Panel with Nine Female Portraits, probably Kathrijn Willemsdr van der Graft and Family, with Saint Mary Magd…

Master of Alkmaar, c. 1515 - c. 1520

Brown monochrome painting of nude Neptune holding a trident beside a sea monster with open jaws.

Triumph of the Faith: Neptune

Maarten van Heemskerck, c. 1550 - c. 1560

Painting of nude soldiers and screaming mothers amid dead infants, with a fortified city and stormy sky behind.

The Massacre of the Innocents

Cornelis van Haarlem, 1590

Seven panels in a townscape show scenes of charity such as almsgiving and burial, with Christ in majesty above, dated 1504.

The Seven Works of Mercy

Master of Alkmaar, 1504

Monochrome brown painting of Hercules in a lion skin struggling with the centaur Nessus beneath him, club raised overhead.

Triumph over Death: Samson Carries the Gates of the City of Gaza | Hercules Kills the Centaur Nessus

Maarten van Heemskerck, c. 1550 - c. 1560

Adam and Eve nude beside the tree of knowledge, a serpent coiled on the trunk, surrounded by animals in a forest.

The Fall of Man

Cornelis van Haarlem, 1592

Oil painting of large sailing ships with flags surrounded by small boats on green water, with a city skyline on the right.

The return to Amsterdam of the second expedition to the East Indies

Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, 1599

Brown monochrome painting of a muscular man tearing open a lion's jaws, head tilted back, with faint figures behind.

Triumph over Evil: Samson Tears the Lion Apart | Pluto and Cerberus

Maarten van Heemskerck, c. 1550 - c. 1560

Painting of a wooded landscape with a mounted rider, a kneeling woman offering food, porters with sacks, and a distant villag

De ontmoeting tussen David en Abigail

Joachim Wtewael, 1597

Painted forest scene with tall trees, a stone building with arched doorways, a winding path and a small animal on the grass.

View in a Forest, Outer Left Wing of a Triptych

Gerard David, c. 1505 - c. 1515

Portrait of a man in black cap and fur-collared robe holding a red book and flower, with a heraldic shield at left.

Portrait of Johannes Colmannus, Rector of the Convent of St. Agatha at Delft

Maarten van Heemskerck, c. 1538 - c. 1540

Painting of a crowded 16th-century kitchen with figures drinking, a bagpiper, a hearth, copper pans, and scattered leeks on t

The egg-dance

Pieter Aertsen, 1552

Painting of a tall leafy tree in a dense forest with blue sky, a stream, and a small animal near the water.

View in a Forest, outer right wing of a triptych

Gerard David, c. 1505 - c. 1515

Oil portrait of a woman in white headdress spinning thread at a wheel, with a feathered hat on the wall, painted in 1529.

A Couple

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1529

Painted altarpiece wing showing a gift-bearing attendant, an open coin chest, horses and figures beside a stone archway.

Wing of an Altarpiece with Adoration of the Magi, on the reverse is Presentation in the Temple

Pieter Aertsen, 1560

Painting of Christ in glory above angels with trumpets, with resurrected nude figures and men burying a coffin below.

Last Judgment and the Burying of the Dead

Unknown artist, c. 1560 - c. 1570

Painting of Christ and onlookers as a man in a white shroud is freed from his burial cloth, with a city and hills behind.

The raising of Lazarus

Aertgen van Leyden, c. 1530 - c. 1535

Adoration of the Magi: Mary holds the infant Christ as a kneeling king offers a gift, with an ox, donkey and camels nearby.

De aanbidding van de koningen

Pieter Aertsen, 1560

Round table piece with a gilded map of the Iberian Peninsula under glass, on a bronze base with winged feet.

Map of the Iberian Peninsula

Augustin Hirschvogel, c. 1553

Painting of a procession of women bearing gold vessels before a seated ruler, with Renaissance buildings in the background.

Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

Unknown artist, c. 1540 - c. 1545

Painting of a crowded kitchen with fish, bread, vegetables, baskets, jugs and several figures around a fire.

Keukenstuk

Pieter Aertsen, 1560

Painted landscape of a man herding oxen along a hillside path past a village, under a dark stormy sky.

Hercules Steals the Oxen of Geryon

Joos de Momper, 1590 - 1635

Panoramic landscape painting on a harpsichord lid with trees, a watermill, distant towers and a reclining nude figure.

Painting on a harpsichord lid with Bacchus and Cybele

Unknown artist, 1590 - 1675

Oval miniature portrait of a woman with curled hair, a white lace ruff, jewelled necklace, and dark gown on blue.

Portrait of a woman

Isaac Oliver, 1575

Painted landscape of a rocky cliff topped by a castle ruin, with a broad valley and distant mountains to the right.

Mountain view

Joos de Momper, 1590 - 1635

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a black doublet, white ruff and red sash against a dark background.

Portrait of Philippe de Montmorency, Count of Horne, Admiral of the Netherlands, Member of the Council of State

Unknown artist, 1540 - 1650

Seated woman in a golden gown holds a book labeled Sibylla Erythraea, gesturing toward a landscape with a rocky hill and town

The Erythraean Sibyl

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1564

Panoramic landscape with a boar hunt, hunting dogs, a wooden bridge, a harbour town with windmills and ships.

River Landscape with Boar Hunt

Joos de Momper, c. 1590 - c. 1635