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Rijksmuseum

134,044 works

Etching of a seated painter at an easel as a winged figure offers him a trumpet, with onlookers by a window.

Painter blowing the horn that Fama hands him

Johann Heinrich Rode, 1750

Etching of a reclining painter with palette beside an easel, a studio assistant at work, and plaster casts on the walls.

Painter in his studio

Michael Hartwagner, 1769

Engraved print of Pope Sixtus V kneeling in prayer in papal vestments, with a tiara beside him.

Paus Sixtus V, knielend in gebed

Ventura Salimbeni, 1589

Mezzotint of Saint Peter crucified upside down, held up on a cross by three men against a rocky mountain landscape.

Martyrdom of Peter on the cross

Wallerant Vaillant, 1658

Engraving of Vlaardingen harbor with moored sailing boats, gabled houses, a church tower, and figures on the quay.

View of a part of the harbor of Vlaardingen

Jan Caspar Philips, 1746

Engraved view of Vlaardingen harbour with stepped gable houses, a church tower, moored boats and a drawbridge on the right.

View of a part of the harbor of Vlaardingen

Jan Caspar Philips, 1747

Sepia print of a wooded landscape with a large tree and a classical temple-like monument with Doric columns beside a river.

Landscape with a design for a monument to Friedrich von Schiller

Christian Haldenwang, 1807

Engraved full-length portrait of King George III in ermine-trimmed royal robes beside a crown and red drapery.

Portrait of George III of the United Kingdom

William Wynne Ryland, 1767

Engraved view of a church, town hall and market square with gabled houses and small figures on cobblestones.

View of the Great Church and the Old Town Hall on the Markt in Vlaardingen

Jan Caspar Philips, 1744

Engraved view of a town hall and a large church with a tall tower on a market square, with trees and figures.

View of the Old Town Hall and the Great Church on the Markt in Vlaardingen

Jan Caspar Philips, 1745

Engraved townscape of Vlaardingen with a canal, moored sailing boats, houses, trees and a church tower under a cloudy sky.

View of Vlaardingen, seen from the Kortedijk

Jan Caspar Philips, 1748

Sepia print of a young woman with curled hair and headscarf, looking over her shoulder with her chin resting on her hand.

Young woman looking over her shoulder

Angelica Kauffmann, 1766

Reddish-brown engraving of a hooded monk bent forward with a cord trailing from his mouth onto the floor.

Vomiting monk

Jacob Gole, 1724

Engraving of a kneeling monk in a brown habit filling a jug from a barrel tap, with a banner behind him.

Monk taps beer from a barrel

Jacob Gole, 1724

Reddish-brown engraving of a standing priest wearing a stole decorated with playing card suits.

Priest with stole of cards

Jacob Gole, 1724

Reddish-brown print of a monk in a cloak embracing a kneeling young woman beside a step and wall.

Monk embraces a young woman

Jacob Gole, 1724

Reddish-brown print of a stout man smoking a pipe, carrying a basket of poultry and a dead bird.

Fat monk with basket of poultry

Jacob Gole, 1724

Engraving of a cloaked man in a hood holding a curved sword and a dagger, standing on a tiled floor.

Monk with scimitar and dagger

Jacob Gole, 1724

Engraved priest in vestments embracing a monstrance with a skull, standing on a tiled floor, in reddish-brown ink.

Priest embraces monstrance with skull

Jacob Gole, 1724

Engraved figure of a monk with a hooded cap holding a collection bell on a pole, labelled Le Pere Sacristain.

Monk with collection purse

Jacob Gole, 1724

Sepia engraving of a sleeping monk in a hooded robe seated on a wooden chair, numbered 17 in the upper corner.

Sleeping monk

Jacob Gole, 1724

Engraving of a startled man in a robe with a snake coiled on his head, raising one hand, in reddish-brown ink.

Standing monk with snake on his head

Jacob Gole, 1724

Reddish-brown engraving of a hooded man in a long robe holding a collection box, with an owl on his shoulder.

Standing monk with collection box

Jacob Gole, 1724

Engraving of a monk holding a dagger and a severed head, with a crucifix, skulls, and an open book behind him.

Monk with dagger in his hand

Jacob Gole, 1724

Pen sketch of a seated man in kimono with a sword, a companion holding an umbrella, and Japanese annotations.

Scene from the Noh play "Suehirogari

Tsukioka Kogyo, 1898

Pencil sketch of two Noh theater figures in patterned costumes with raised staffs, with Japanese notes and fabric pattern stu

Scene from the Noh play Tsuchigumo

Tsukioka Kogyo, 1902

Ink sketch of two Noh theatre performers in costume with Japanese labels and circular motif diagrams.

Scene from the Noh play "Utsubozaru

Tsukioka Kogyo, 1899

Charcoal drawing of a bearded man with head bowed, right hand pressed to his forehead, bare shoulders visible.

Fragment of an academy study: man with right hand on the forehead

Johan Braakensiek, 1868

Pencil sketch of two men in caps, half-length, one smiling and one glancing from behind, with a hand at lower right.

Two men, half-length

Johan Braakensiek, 1868

Pencil drawing of a park with a columnar memorial topped by a bust, with strollers in 19th-century dress.

Memorial for Prince Henry of the Netherlands in the Plantsoen on the Prins Hendrikkade in Amsterdam

Johan Braakensiek, 1885

Grey wash drawing of two pickpockets robbing a sleeping man in a top hat on a bench, watched by a uniformed guard.

Two pickpockets rob a sleeping "Firmant

Johan Braakensiek

Charcoal sketch of a café interior with seated men at tables, a standing waiter, and a man drawing.

Terrace of a café-restaurant, with drawing artist

Johan Braakensiek, 1889

Wash drawing of a woman holding a candle over a bearded man lying in a draped bed in a dim room.

Design for illustration in De Amsterdammer: Doux pays (...)

Johan Braakensiek, 1911

Drawing of a cloaked man in a fur cap walking past a stone sign reading PAPENDRECHT under a moonlit sky.

Design for illustration in De Amsterdammer: 't Juridisch element in de Eerste Kamer

Johan Braakensiek, 1911

Drawing of a kneeling man raising his arm toward a swirl of caricatured faces floating in a gray-blue sky.

Design for illustration in De Amsterdammer: "Vijf en twintig jaren

Johan Braakensiek

Pencil and wash sketch of a woman pointing at a girl, a child at her side, and a man in a top hat leaning on a counter.

Design for a poster (?) to combat alcohol abuse: That is your money!

Johan Braakensiek, 1868

Charcoal drawing of a pale ghostly figure facing men in dark suits, one bespectacled man gesturing toward it, by Johan Braake

Design for illustration in De Amsterdammer: The forgetting of Schimmel in the New Year's wish of the Municipal Theatr…

Johan Braakensiek, 1907

Charcoal drawing of two cloaked figures in misty grey light; the figure on the right has a halo and reaches out a hand.

Unidentified representation: Rembrandt and Christ (?)

Johan Braakensiek

Engraving of goddesses on clouds with a winged figure holding a flower basket, a lion, and a fruit-filled basket.

Ceres, Cybele and the followers of Flora on the clouds

Bernard Picart, 1713

Engraved ornamental panel with Hercules beside a stag and a boar, flanking a central relief of arms and armor.

Relief flanked by Hercules with the Arcadian stag and Hercules with the boar of Erymanthus

Louis Surugue, 1713

Engraving of three crowned muses in a wooded landscape, one reading sheet music and one playing a large viol.

Melpomene, Erato and Polyhymnia

Gaspard Duchange, 1740

Engraving of a laurel-crowned woman playing a lyre under a tree, framed by an oval garland of leaves and ribbons.

Calliope

Bernard Picart, 1740

Engraving of Urania, a seated woman in classical dress with a star crown beside a celestial globe under a tree.

Urania

Bernard Picart, 1740

Engraving of a classical woman seated beside a harp under a tree, framed by a garland of leaves and ribbon bows.

Terpsichore

Bernard Picart, 1740

Engraving of a winged female figure above a curved classical cornice with flower garlands and ornamental panels.

Followers of Flora

Louis Surugue, 1713

Engraved relief design with muscular Hercules figures flanking a central framed cartouche, a bull, a horse, and a cherub.

Relief flanked by Hercules with the Bull of Crete and Hercules with a Horse of Diomedes

Louis Surugue, 1713

Engraved print of a long relief with Hercules, a lion, a winged sphinx, garlands and architectural friezes, dated 1714.

Relief flanked by Hercules with Cerberus and Hercules with an Apple of the Hesperides

Louis Surugue, 1714

Engraved panoramic print of a ceiling design with mythological scenes of Hercules, framed by garlands and cartouches.

Ceiling with the apotheosis of Hercules

Matthijs Pool, 1718

Black and white print of a Dutch country house with a gabled roof, framed by trees, with the title Rustenwerk in a scroll.

View of country house Rust en Werk

Adriaan Willem Weissman, 1850

Etching of a rocky mountain ridge with trees and shrubs under a cloudy sky.

Mountains in Seelisberg

Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravesande, 1889

Etching of a steep mountain valley with cliffs, a rocky path and distant peaks under a pale sky.

Mountain landscape near Lauterbrunnen

Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravesande, 1851

Etching of snow-capped mountain peaks above a dark hatched foreground slope under a cloudy sky.

Urirotstock

Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravesande, 1851

Etching of a cemetery with a tall white cross, two walking figures, and a steep shadowed mountain behind.

Cemetery in Muotathal

Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravesande, 1851

Sepia etching of a snow-covered mountain peak flanked by dark, hatched rock cliffs under a cloudy sky.

Snow-covered mountain peak

Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravesande, 1851

Etching of snow-capped mountains rising above a lake, with a dark wooded slope in the right foreground.

View of Urisee

Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravesande, 1889

Etching of a stormy mountain landscape with dark peaks, billowing clouds and dense hatched shading.

Storm in the mountains near Seelisberg

Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravesande, 1889

Etching of a mountain valley with a village of houses and a church steeple beside a stream, under steep slopes.

View of the monastery of Saint Joseph in Muotathal

Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravesande, 1889

Etching of a dark mountain slope above a rippled lake under hatched storm clouds, with distant peaks on the right.

View of Lake Lucerne in a storm

Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravesande, 1889

Etching of oak trees on a sandy dune ridge under a pale sky, with hatched shading and loose branch lines.

Oak trees in the dunes

Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravesande, 1889

Etching of a lake seen from steep wooded cliffs, with small boats on calm water and distant mountains under a hazy sky.

View of Lake Lucerne seen from Axenstein

Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravesande, 1889

Etching of several windmills along a flat waterway with reeds and a broken wooden fence in the foreground.

Mills on the Rotte

Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravesande, 1851

Etching of sailing boats, a steamboat and a rowboat with two figures on a wide river under a pale sky.

Ships on the Meuse

Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravesande, 1851

Etching of sailing boats and rowing boats on calm water with a faint shoreline and smoke on the horizon.

Rowing boats and sailing ships on the Meuse

Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravesande, 1851

Etching of the church and ruined tower at Egmond-Binnen with a spire, trees, and small figures in the foreground.

Tower of the Abbey Church at Egmond, intact, 1798

Hendrik Schwegman, 1799