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Rijksmuseum

2,633 works

Small panel painting of a haloed saint holding up a hanged man on a gallows, with armed men and a walled city behind.

Saint Nicholas of Tolentino Saves a Hanged Man

Zanobi Machiavelli, 1470

Flat green fields with brown furrows, a small windmill and two figures on the left, distant trees under a pale sky.

Landscape with fields

Willem Witsen, 1885 - 1922

Allegorical painting with figures around a globe, a Dutch sailing ship, and map-like islands with an obelisk on the shore.

Amsterdam as center of world trade

Pieter Isaacsz, c. 1604 - c. 1607

Narrow Oriental street with a rider in a red cloak on a grey horse and a man in a turban beside arched windows.

Oosterse straat

Marius Bauer, 1911

Painting of figures in period dress skating and walking on a frozen river, with a windmill, village houses and a sailboat.

Winter Landscape with Skaters

Adam van Breen, c. 1615 - c. 1620

Grisaille allegory: helmeted woman points beside a column with a bust, putto writing in a book, staff with cap.

Allegory of Freedom

Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, 1790

Grisaille allegory of the arts with a woman holding a palette, a laurel-crowned seated woman, and cherubs.

Allegory of the Arts.

Gérard de Lairesse, 1675

Grisaille painting of a laurel-crowned allegorical woman in a niche beside a column, with fruit at her feet and classical rel

Painted Wall Hanging with Peace

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1786

Painting of sailing ships and small boats on choppy water before a town with a church spire and a castle, under a cloudy sky.

Ships off IJsselmonde

Aert Anthoniszoon, 1617

Full-length painting of a bishop saint in a gilded mitre holding a book and crosier against a gold background.

Saint Louis

Vittore Crivelli, 1481

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

Painting of a sea battle with large galleons under golden sails, flags flying, and a fortified town on a rocky headland at ri

Slag bij Cadix

Aert Anthoniszoon, 1608

Full-length painting of a bishop saint with mitre, crosier and open book, wearing an ornate gold-embroidered cope against gol

Saint Bonaventure

Vittore Crivelli, 1481

Two fishermen haul a net along a muddy riverbank while sailboats and rowboats drift on the water under a cloudy sky.

Fishermen on the Bank of the Amstel near the Pauwentuin, Amsterdam

Arent Arentsz, 1625

Horizontal painting of the prodigal son: a kneeling figure embraced at right, a dealing scene with a horse at left, and a riv

De verloren zoon

Barent Fabritius, 1661

Painting of John the Baptist in red and green robes, pointing upward beside a staff, with a rocky landscape and trees behind

John the Baptist

Francesco Botticini, 1470

Painting of large sailing ships with flags offshore, fishermen and villagers on a rocky beach, and a castle on a hill.

Ships off a Rocky Coast

Adam Willaerts, 1621

Painting of a kneeling man before an altar in a marble temple, with a standing Pharisee, a devil and an angel in the margins.

De Farizeeër en de tollenaar

Barent Fabritius, 1661

Wide 1645 landscape with a dancing couple, musician and dog on a path, a village with church spire in the distance.

Landschap met dansend paar

Pieter Meulener, 1645

‘Arrangement in Yellow and Gray’: Effie Deans

James McNeill Whistler, 1876

Painting of the parable of the rich man and Lazarus: a banquet on the left, a beggar with dogs on the right, heaven and hell

Lazarus and the Rich Man

Barent Fabritius, 1661

Loose painting of cows in a meadow beside dark trees and a fence, under a heavy grey-green sky.

The Milking Curve

Willem Roelofs, 1870

Full-length painting of Mary Magdalene holding a golden jar, with long auburn hair, halo, red mantle and gilded frame.

Maria Magdalena

Carlo Crivelli, 1480

Still life painting of books, a manuscript, a paper scroll and a wooden box on a shelf under a stone arch.

Still Life with Books in a Niche

Barthélémy d' Eyck, 1442

Panoramic 1636 painting of a river siege with a smoking fortress, ships on the water and mounted officers in the foreground.

The siege of Schenckenschans by Prince Frederik Hendrik, April 1636

Gerrit van Santen, 1636

Gold-ground painting of the Crucifixion with haloed Christ, mounted soldiers, grieving figures and a rocky hill landscape.

De kruisiging

Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia, 1447

Panoramic 1770 painting of Constantinople's waterfront with sailing ships, mosques, red-roofed houses and hills under a cloud

Gezicht op Constantinopel en het Serail vanuit de Zweedse ambassade te Pera

Jan van der Steen, 1770

Pale grisaille panel of putti around a classical urn with grapes and oak leaves, signed and dated 1746.

De herfst

Jacob de Wit, 1746

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 Christ blessing children among robed figures before a glowing stone archway under a fiery sky.

Christ Blessing the Children

Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, 1870

Painting of a red brick manor house with turrets and gables beside a moat, with a ruined tower and trees.

Het Huis Nieuw Teylingen

Niels Rode, 1785

Painting of a haloed saint embracing a hanged man at a gallows, with armed men in red and green and a walled town behind.

Saint Nicholas Saving a Hanged Man

Zanobi Machiavelli, 1470

Standing saint in red mantle holding a sword and flowers, within a dark arched niche, painted panel from c.1490.

Linker vleugel van een drieluik met de heilige Valerianus

Master of the Brunswick Diptych, 1490

Panoramic 1780 painting of a palace beyond a long water basin, with a carriage, riders and tree-lined hills.

Gezicht op een paleis in een heuvellandschap

Henri Salembier, 1780

Painting of a windmill and farmhouses beside a dark canal, with a lone figure on a white bridge under a cloudy sky.

De afgesneden molen

Jacob Maris, 1872

Painting of a saint in a red gown and fur mantle with a white dove and a small organ in an arched niche.

Rechterluik van een triptiek met de heilige Cecilia

Master of the Brunswick Diptych, 1490

Panoramic 1780 painting of a palace and formal gardens across rolling hills, with a rider under trees in the foreground.

Gezicht op de achterzijde van een paleis

Henri Salembier, 1780

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

Painted view of a marble staircase and classical building opening onto a wooded landscape, with a figure at a window.

Een buitentrap (rechterhelft van de voorstelling). Onderdeel van een zevendelige kamerbeschildering

Dirck van Delen, 1630

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

Narrow wooden slat with a gilded standing bodhisattva in prayer, wearing a crown and beaded necklace, on rocks.

Schildering

Sesshu, 1700

Painted interior with a couple on a marble balcony above a staircase, two peacocks below, and gentlemen behind columns.

Een buitentrap (linkerhelft van de voorstelling). Onderdeel van een zevendelige kamerbeschildering

Dirck van Delen, 1630

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

Painting of a rocky northern coast with ships at sea, a rowboat, and figures firing at polar bears on the shore.

Imaginary Inlet in Southern Arctic Waters in Summer

Bonaventura Peeters, 1640

Painted panel of a classical stairway with a red parrot on the banister, trees beyond, and two figures at a window.

A Seven-Part Decorative Sequence: An Outdoor Stairway

Dirck van Delen, 1630

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

Full-length portrait of a bearded man in black with a white ruff, holding a pike, beside a helmet and green curtain.

Portrait of Sir John Burroughs (1587-1627)

Jan van Ravesteyn, 1620

Painting of a stone stairway with columns where three men in 1630s hats and lace collars stand and talk.

A Seven-Part Decorative Sequence: An Outdoor Stairway (II)

Dirck van Delen, 1630

Winter scene of crowds skating on a frozen river beside a city gate, a wooden tower and tents, with church spires behind.

Ice pleasure on the city dig (or The Kranenhoofd on the Scheldt, Antwerp; or Winter Pastime on the Scheldt in Antwerp)

Sebastiaen Vrancx, 1622

Painting of a brick manor house with turrets beside a moat, a ruined tower to the right, framed by trees.

Castle of Nieuw Teylingen

Niels Rode, 1785

Painting of fishing boats in choppy surf with women gathering baskets of fish on a quay under a cloudy sky.

Pinks in the Surf

Hendrik Willem Mesdag, 1875

Loose painting of grey-green choppy sea with white surf, gulls over the water, and distant sailboats under a cloudy sky.

Seascape

Charles-François Daubigny, 1876

Panoramic 18th-century painting of a palace across a pond, with a carriage, riders and figures in the foreground.

View of a Palace in a Hilly Landscape

Henri Sallembier, 1780

Stylized veiled woman floating horizontally over a pale sky, holding a bowl, with blue sea and green hill below.

De uren

Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst, 1918

Muted landscape with a windmill, distant village church towers, flat fields and a shallow water channel under a grey sky.

Landscape

Charles-François Daubigny, 1840

Panoramic 18th-century painting of a palace with formal gardens and a town below, framed by trees and rolling hills.

View of the back of a Palace

Henri Sallembier, 1780

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

Panoramic painting of a crowded naval battle with many sailing ships, smoke and flags on dark water under a pale sky.

Naval Battle on the IJsselmeer, 6 October 1573: Episode from the Eighty Years' War

Abraham de Verwer, 1621

Painting of two polar bears on snow with a dark sky and distant snowy hills, in pale white and grey tones.

Polar Bears

John Macallan Swan, 1870

Winter landscape with richly dressed skaters on a frozen river, a windmill, village houses and a sailing boat.

Winterlandschap met schaatsers

Adam van Breen, 1615

Fishermen haul a net on a riverbank as sailboats and a church town appear under a warm cloudy sky.

Vissers aan de Amstel te Amsterdam in de nabijheid van het buiten 'De Pauwentuin'

Arent Arentsz, 1625

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 flat green landscape with dark furrows, a small windmill on the left, distant trees and a pale sky.

Landschap met akkervelden

Willem Witsen, 1885

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