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Rijksmuseum

284 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

Oil painting of a crowded Renaissance court scene with a seated king receiving a kneeling woman and attendants before a city.

Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

Jan van Scorel, 1540

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 a nude woman bathing at a fountain beside a reclining man, with a classical palace and wooded hills behind.

Landscape with Bathsheba

Jan van Scorel, 1540

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

Group of richly dressed family on a tiled terrace with children and parents, while a poor elderly man with a cane stands at l

Rich children, poor parents

Aert Pietersz, 1599

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

Group portrait of men in black berets and white ruffs seated and standing around a banquet table with bread and wine.

Meal of eighteen Amsterdam civic guardsmen of Rot L, 1566, known as 'The Banquet'

Dirck Barendsz, 1566

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

Group portrait of a militia company of men in ruffs seated and standing around a banquet table, with muskets and a dog.

The Company of Captain Gillis Jansz Valckenier and Lieutenant Pieter Jacobsz Bas, Amsterdam, 1599

Pieter Isaacsz, 1599

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

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

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 the centaur Nessus carrying off the nude Deianira on his white back, with a bearded man in a wooded landscape.

Nessus and Deianira

Lambert Sustris, 1540

Triptych group portrait of men in dark costumes arranged in tiers, with the date 1529 inscribed on a ledge.

A groep of Guardsmen

Dirck Jacobsz, 1529

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

Keukenstuk

Pieter Aertsen, 1560

Brown monochrome painting of a muscular nude man seen from behind, pushing against columns, with a small figure below.

Simson verbrijzelt de zuilen van de tempel

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550

Painting of a crowned woman with a sword beside a kneeling figure in black holding a red rosary, with a hilly landscape behin

De opwekking van Lazarus

Aertgen van Leyden, 1530

Panoramic painting of a burning city, demons and nude sinners by a river, and a feasting crowd beneath a dragon in a tree.

The Last Judgment and the Seven Deadly Sins

Jacob van Swanenburgh, 1600

Sepia painting of a muscular man tearing open a lion's jaws, head thrown back, with faint figures behind him.

Simson verscheurt de leeuw

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550

Interior scene of a crowded kitchen with figures drinking, a piper, cooking pots, scattered leeks, and a landscape through th

De eierdans

Pieter Aertsen, 1552

Group portrait of armed militiamen with ruffled collars and halberds in a tiled hall, a captain in a red sash at center.

The Company of Captain Dirck Jacobsz Rosecrans and Lieutenant Pauw

Cornelis Ketel, 1588

Sepia drawing of Hercules in a lion skin grappling with the centaur Nessus, arms raised, in a tall vertical format.

Hercules vernietigt de centaur Nessus

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550

Panoramic painting of a burning city, nude sinners tormented by demons, and a multi-headed dragon above feasting figures.

The Last Judgment and the Seven Deadly Sins

Jacob Isaacsz. van Swanenburg, 1600

Painting of a standing saint with a palm frond gesturing to a kneeling nun before a domed rotunda, with a Latin inscription b

Drieluik met taferelen uit het leven van Johannes de Doper

Hans van Coninxloo, 1557

Kitchen scene with a woman holding a fish, baskets of vegetables and fruit, bread, a cooking fire, and figures in the backgro

Kitchen Scene

Pieter Aertsen, 1560