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Rijksmuseum

54,289 works

Engraving of a man shaking hands with a traveler at an arched doorway while a woman gestures them in, with children and a sun

Sheltering the strangers

Jan Luyken, 1712

Engraving of an ornate stone well with iron fittings and a bucket in a courtyard beside an arcaded wall and trees.

Round well in a square in front of a walled garden

Johannes of Lucas van Doetechum, 1574

Engraving of King David and priests on a road as soldiers approach while priests carry the ark past a walled city.

David flees from Absalom

Aegidius Sadeler, 1580

Engraving of robed figures draping cloth over a nude man beside a tree and an arched doorway, with a rocky landscape behind.

Clothing the naked

Jan Luyken, 1712

Engraving of a rectangular well with a geared windlass and bucket in an classical interior, with a garden view through a door

Built-in rectangular well

Johannes of Lucas van Doetechum, 1574

Engraving of soldiers killing infants while mothers struggle to protect them, with figures falling from a platform.

Massacre of the Innocents at Bethlehem

Aegidius Sadeler, 1580

Engraving of a sick man in bed attended by visitors, with a donkey and sheep in an arched window landscape beyond.

Visiting the sick

Jan Luyken, 1712

Engraving of a stone well with a bucket and windlass in an arched opening, framed by classical niches and paneled doors.

Well in arched opening in a wall

Johannes of Lucas van Doetechum, 1574

Etching of putti working in a street on a column capital, with a bust, tools and a church spire in the background.

Putti working on the capital of a column

Engraving of a veiled woman with a basket and seated men in a vaulted stone prison, with a guard visible through an archway.

Visiting the prisoners

Jan Luyken, 1712

Etching of a lone figure walking down a dirt path between bare trees and dense undergrowth.

Figure on a forest path

Louis Rosseels, 1850

Engraved architectural elevation of two tall windows beside ornate mirror panels with lettered molding profiles below.

Two windows and panels

Jean-Baptiste Bichard, 1752

Engraving of a banquet at a long table with seated men in robes, a standing woman, columns and a draped curtain.

Feast at Simon the leper's

Jan Luyken, 1712

Engraved title page with a cartouche showing Hercules wrestling a lion, putti with a fruit basket, and the title L'Europe.

Cartouche with Hercules

François Chauveau, 1643

Engraved harbor scene of a timber crane, ships, and workers moving wine barrels, with New Year's verses below.

New Year's wish for 1811 from the Antwerp crane workers

J.J. Smits, 1811

Engraving of Christ kneeling to wash an apostle's feet while disciples watch in a candlelit room.

Washing of Peter's feet

Jan Luyken, 1712

Etching of a snowy winter field with a crow on a tree stump, a winding path, and a dark sky above.

Winter landscape with crow

Ludovic Napoléon Lepic, 1860

Etching of a ruined street with collapsed houses, a loaded timber cart, horses, and figures under a stormy sky.

Ruins in the Wagenstraat in Brussels, 1695

Augustin Coppens, 1695

Engraving of the Last Supper with a haloed Christ at a table surrounded by apostles under a hanging chandelier.

Last Supper

Jan Luyken, 1712

Engraving of a mounted rider in plumed hat leading troops through smoke and battle, with allegorical winged figures above.

Victory of William III at the Boyne, 1690

Romeyn de Hooghe, 1691

Engraved title print of allegorical figures among ruins and a burning city, with an inscription on a stone pedestal, 1695.

Title print of the series Perspectives des ruines de la ville de Bruxelles

Augustin Coppens, 1695

Engraving of Christ kneeling in prayer while an angel appears in the clouds above, with sleeping figures in the distance.

Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane

Jan Luyken, 1712

Engraving of militia soldiers marching over a stone bridge toward a Haarlem city gate, with a boat on the canal.

Militia enters Haarlem, 1750

Simon Fokke, 1751

Pencil sketch of a seated painter at an easel in a studio, with a draped model at left and plaster casts on shelves.

Painter working from model

Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers, 1782

Engraving of Christ with a halo seized by armed soldiers at night, torches in background, a sword raised.

Taking of Christ

Jan Luyken, 1712

Watercolor stage design of a marble colonnade with Corinthian columns opening onto a loggia and distant landscape with a spir

Design for a stage set of a colonnade with loggia

Pieter Barbiers, 1779

Pencil drawing of a street vendor with a barrel cart talking to a woman and child on a cobbled quay with ship masts behind.

Children with a street vendor along a quay

Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers, 1782

Engraving of Christ standing before a high priest and seated elders in a columned hall, with soldiers at left.

Christ before the high priest Annas

Jan Luyken, 1712

Pen and watercolor design of a symmetrical church interior with gilded columns, a central altar, and a saint statue, dated 17

Design for a stage set of a church interior

Pieter Barbiers, 1779

Grey wash drawing of a lagoon with rowing boats, fishing nets, a flagged vessel, tree-lined shores and cattle on the bank.

Governor Loten and his Entourage on Negombo Lagoon

Pieter de Bevere, 1754

Engraving of Christ bound to a column being whipped by soldiers in an arcaded hall, with a crowd visible outside.

Flagellation of Christ

Jan Luyken, 1712

Pen and watercolor design of a neoclassical room with green paneled walls, gilt mirror, console table and two tall windows.

Design for a stage set of an interior

Pieter Barbiers, 1779

Pencil drawing of a fortified harbor front with sailing ships and rowboats on calm water under a pale sky.

View of Colombo

Pieter de Bevere, 1755

Engraving of a crowd gesturing toward a haloed figure with a crown of thorns on a platform before classical architecture.

Christ shown to the people

Jan Luyken, 1712

Watercolor of a frozen harbour in winter with skaters, moored sailing boats, gabled houses and a clock tower.

Winter view in Harlingen

Nicolaas Baur, 1777

Panoramic engraving of sailing ships on calm water with a wooded coastline, hills, and shoreline buildings under a pale sky.

View of the fort in Galle in Ceylon

Pieter de Bevere, 1755

Engraving of a crowned figure carrying a cross past soldiers and a crowd under a stone archway, with a tower behind.

Carrying of the cross

Jan Luyken, 1712

Engraving of a seated woman at a fountain in a colonnade while a messenger gestures toward her, with a city behind.

Bathsheba receives the message from David

Cornelis Massijs, 1549

Etching of Gideon's soldiers drinking at a river beside classical ruins, with armed men watching and riders in the distance.

Gideon tests his army at the Jordan

Melchior Küsel, 1636

Engraving of the Crucifixion with three crosses, a crowd of mourners and soldiers, a mountain and a walled city beyond.

Crucifixion of Christ

Jan Luyken, 1712

Engraving of fishermen hauling a net from boats while a seated figure gestures, with cranes on shore and a distant town.

Miraculous catch of fish

Cornelis Massijs, 1537

Sheet of allegorical woodcut figures with verses, partly hand-colored in blue and orange, Amsterdam, 1725.

Listen, oh sweet youth / how praiseworthy is the virtue here [(...)]

Johannes Kannewet, 1725

Etching of a coastal harbour with a sailing ship, rowboat with figures, fishing boat and a standing man under a cloudy sky.

Coastal landscape with sailing and fishing boat

Franz Maecker, 1884

Hand-coloured drawing of a village of domed huts on a green hillside, with cattle grazing on the slopes above.

Village of the Gonaqua

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Etching of a winding canal lined with dense trees, with figures in a small boat on the water.

Canal with boat

Arnoud Schaepkens, 1831

Etching of a three-masted ship and a small sailboat on rough sea, with two lighthouses on a pier at right.

Coastal landscape with two sailing boats and two lighthouses

Franz Maecker, 1885

Hand-coloured drawing of a grey eland antelope with spiral horns standing on grassy ground with shrubs.

South African antelope

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Etched print of the Westerhal in Amsterdam with a tall tower, staircase, flowering trees, and people and horses in the square

View of the Westerhal in Amsterdam

Jacob van Meurs, 1663

Etching of a three-masted sailing ship on calm sea with other vessels and a steamship in the distance under cloudy sky.

Seascape with a three-master and other ships

Franz Maecker, 1883

Watercolor drawing of a winding river through a broad valley, with a herd of cattle grazing in the foreground under cloudy sk

At the Bushman River

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Etching of a tree-lined Amsterdam square with market stalls, baskets of flowers and people among canal houses.

View of the Flower Market, Amsterdam

Joannes Pieter Visser Bender, 1795

Engraved view of a busy market square in Arnhem with a tall church tower, carts, and townspeople under trees.

View of the Grote Markt in Arnhem

Joseph Maximilian Kolb, 1835

Watercolor of a hunter firing at a charging rhinoceros on a plain, with mounted riders and a wagon caravan in the distance.

Rhinoceros is shot

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Engraved print of a canal-side market in Amsterdam with figures, a bridge, a tall church tower and a large tree.

View of the strawberry market in Amsterdam

Joannes Pieter Visser Bender, 1799

Watercolor interior of a 1748 waiting room with officers smoking, card players by a fireplace, and a spotted dog.

Waiting Room

Cornelis Troost, 1748

Watercolor drawing of a grey rhinoceros with a reddish horn walking left across a grassy field with shrubs.

Rhinoceros

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Etching of a town market square with a church tower, gabled houses, a large tree, and small figures and a horse.

View of the market in Griethausen

Paulus van Liender, 1792

Hand-colored print of a busy market street with stalls, townhouses, and a large Gothic church with a tall tower.

Fish market and Great Church in The Hague, ca. 1790

Carel Frederik Bendorp, 1786

Watercolour of a grassland plain with ox wagons and mountains under blue clouds, labelled Cafferlands Bergen tegen 't Noorden

Amathole Mountains

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Watercolor of a grassy park with footbridges, red-roofed houses, a church tower and apartment blocks beyond a waterway.

View of the Jan van Galenpark

Frans Everbag, 1938

Grey wash drawing of a calm canal with wooden houses, a rowboat with one figure, and clouds reflected in the water.

View of the Slotervaart from the Surinameplein

Anthonie van Teijn, 1927

Hand-coloured drawing of a wooded mountain ridge with ox wagons traveling a dirt road below under pale clouds.

Groot Bruintjieshoogte (left half)

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Engraving of a seated muscular giant tending his ankle on a rocky shore, with a ship of rowers approaching across the sea.

Talos bleeds through a trick of the Argonauts

Joseph Anton Koch, 1799

Colored print of a river landscape at dusk with swimming children, water buffalo, palm trees, huts and a wooden bridge.

Landscape in the Batavian Ommelanden with swimming children

Johan Conrad Greive, 1865