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Rijksmuseum

22 works

Panel painting of a wealthy family on a terrace with children and a hobby horse, beside an elderly poor couple at left, 1599.

Rich Children, Poor Parents

Unknown artist, 1599

Painting of a piper herding cattle and goats through a meadow, with a nude child, a walled town and hills behind.

The Young Mercury Stealing Cattle from the Herd of Apollo

Girolamo da Santacroce, 1540

Adam and Eve stand nude beside the tree of knowledge, with a serpent, owl and many animals around them.

The Fall of Man

Cornelis van Haarlem, 1592

Painting of the Witch of Endor raising a wand among owls, witches and a goat, with Saul and soldiers at left.

Saul and the Witch of Endor

Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, 1526

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

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

Group painting of eighteen bearded men in black dress seated and standing around a banquet table with fish and bread.

Banquet of Eighteen Guardsmen of Squad L, Amsterdam 1566, known as 'The Perch Eaters'

Dirck Barendsz, 1566

Portrait of a young boy in a black hat and white ruff holding a basket of fruit and a pastry, with a small dog beside him.

Portrait of a little Boy

Jacob Willemsz. Delff, 1581

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

Painted palace garden with fountain, clipped hedges, staircase, and dogs in the foreground beside a man in red hose.

Palace Gardens with Poor Lazarus in the foreground

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1550 - 1606

Pen and brush drawing of a dromedary in the foreground with a distant city, bridge, palm trees and travelers beyond.

Dromedary in an oriental landscape with a city

Unknown artist, c. 1600

Drawing of Venus kneeling with Cupid aiming a bow, two swans in reeds below, a carriage in a forest to the left.

Venus Urging Cupid to Shoot his Arrow at Pluto

Roelant Savery, 1586 - 1639

This beautiful horse very brave to run / Is ready for everyone's service, / And boys eager want to buy this horse: /…

Erven H. Rynders, 1551

Pen and wash drawing of an ornamental title frame with animals, a horseman with hounds, birds and fish around an empty panel.

Title page with animals and horsemen

Stradanus, 1596

Engraving of a winged horse flying over a walled city, with a serpent-tailed sea monster in the foreground.

Flying winged horse and sea monster

Theodor de Bry, 1596

Engraving of Christ with apostles on a shore, men hauling a fish-filled net from a boat, trees and a distant city.

Miraculous draught of fishes and miraculous feeding

Pieter van der Heyden, 1556

Engraved print of a lion in an oval landscape with a castle, framed by ornamental scrollwork and a cherub.

Landscape with a lion in an oval

Paul Flindt, 1592

Torn engraved print of a reclining lion beside a skull, with a second lion at left and Latin text in a curved band.

Lion

Jacques de Gheyn, 1580

Engraving of Noah and his family leading animals onto the ark, with elephants, lions and birds in the sky.

Noah boards the ark with his family and the animals

Cornelis Cort, 1558

Engraving of a man in a hat beside a saddled horse, with a resting horse, barrels and a cart wheel in the foreground.

Two horses and a man

Jean LeClerc, 1597

Engraved ornamental print with a reclining river god surrounded by sea creatures, foliage arches and grotesque figures.

Flat decoration: frieze with animals and river god

Johannes of Lucas van Doetechum, 1557

Engraving of a dog standing beside three cows, two resting, with a robed figure under a tree at left, within a decorative bor

Dog with three cows

Jean LeClerc, 1597