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Rijksmuseum

73,376 works

Pen and ink study of an old hooded woman leaning on a staff, with smaller head studies and faint pencil figures around her.

Studies of an old woman leaning on a stick

Eugène Delacroix, 1808

Pencil sketch of a pipe-smoking man in a wide hat at a table with a wine glass, pitcher, and drapery.

Pipe-smoking man at a table

Leonaert Bramer, 1642

Pencil sketch of a herder with cattle on a path beside bushes and a leafy tree, by Hermanus Fock, 1781.

Landscape with cattle herder

Hermanus Fock, 1781

Printed sheet of twelve small hand-colored scenes showing boys playing games like hoop rolling, archery, and kite flying, wit

See here what young boys play, / Their practice will not bore you. / Follow youth in everything their deed; / But, th…

Jan Hendriksen, 1806

Twelve-panel woodcut of the November slaughter: cattle trading, butchering pigs, salting meat and cooking sausages, with Dutc

November 'slaughterers' best time, / Provided well-fed and fat pastured

Jan Hendriksen, 1781

Hand-colored print of a seated orange and grey tabby cat on a pedestal, with Dutch verses above and below.

No more useful animal for rat and mouse / Than a nice little cat in your house. / For it searches every nook / to see…

Jan Hendriksen, 1781

Etched half-length portrait of Pasquale Paoli in a tricorn hat and military coat with a sash, hand on sword hilt.

Portrait of Pasquale Paoli

Hendrik Kobell, 1768

Engraved portrait of Pascal Paoli in a military coat and powdered wig, with a laurel garland and a Dutch verse below.

Portrait of Pasquale Paoli

Reinier Vinkeles, 1769

Engraved portrait of a seated man in a powdered wig and lace cuffs beside a table with a quill and inkwell.

Portrait of Pieter Rendorp

Jacob Houbraken, 1758

Pen and watercolour drawing of a seated woman holding a monstrance beside an orange tree in an urn.

Design for a title page with a woman with a monstrance

Abraham van Strij, 1763

Engraved portrait of Pope John XI in clerical vestments with papal arms, framed by an ornamental border.

Portrait of Pope John XI

Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri, 1587

Engraved bust portrait of Pope Leo VI with papal tiara and crossed keys arms, set in an ornate decorative border.

Portrait of Pope Leo VI

Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri, 1587

Engraved bust portrait of a bearded pope in vestments with a papal coat of arms, labeled Stephanus P VIII Roma.

Portrait of Pope Stephen VII

Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri, 1595

Ink and watercolor drawing of white lilies with orange stamens, green buds and striped leaves on tall stems.

Lilies

Ohara Koson, 1912

Watercolor of a blooming azalea with red, pink and white flowers in a blue pot against a yellow background.

Blooming azalea in blue pot

Ohara Koson, 1920

Three swallows in flight beside drooping willow branches on a pale blue-grey background, with a red seal in the corner.

Three birds in full flight

Ohara Koson, 1887

Watercolor portrait of a standing young woman in a blue patterned gown and lace bonnet, with a handwritten inscription below.

Portrait of Maria van IJsseldijk, standing knee-piece

Isaac Lodewijk la Fargue van Nieuwland, 1736

Grey wash allegory: a nude figure stands in a boat beside a seated man with a cup, winged figures float overhead.

Allegory of the death of the artist Giambattista Maderna

Matthias Joseph de Noël, 1792

Engraved oval portrait of a man in studded armor with curled shoulder-length hair and a lace collar, with inscription below.

Portrait of Ernst Willem, Count of Bentheim

Pieter Holsteyn, 1660

Red ornamental booklet cover reading Versieringskunst above a black and gold label with two fish for Levertraan Emulsie.

Advertising booklet for lessons in Decorative Art by R.W.P. de Vries Jr. and a pharmacy label for cod liver oil emulsion

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1884

Two art nouveau printed cards: a red ornamental card with a stylized female figure, and a birth announcement with scrollwork

Advertising card for lessons in Decorative Art by R.W.P. de Vries Jr. and a birth announcement card of Mardi Tonny Li…

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1905

Three advertisement designs on a dark mount: a Motshagen building label, a lyre-shaped Alsbach music label, and a green grape

Advertisements from Motshagen's trade in pharmacy and drugstore supplies and music dealers G. Alsbach & Co

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1884

Art nouveau magazine cover design with a pencil sketch of a bearded man in a long coat, blue and green decorative border.

Cover design for: Woord en Beeld. Geïllustreerd Maandblad, 1896

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1895

Brown wash drawing of a half-timbered house, a wooden post, and ivy beside a stone wall in a courtyard.

Mooring post in front of a house

Joan Berg, 1865

Brown wash drawing of two men by a water well beside a path, with a tree and wooden footbridge in a rural landscape.

Two men by a water well

Zeno Bachiene Muntendam, 1840

Colour print of a cancan dancer in a white fur wrap, one red-stockinged leg raised high above her head against a pale backgro

Cancan dancer with leg stretched behind her head

Louis Legrand, 1892

Hand-colored print of a cancan dancer in a blue jacket and white skirt lifting a leg in a red stocking.

Cancan dancer playing the guitar on her leg

Louis Legrand, 1892

Hand-coloured print of a cancan dancer kicking one leg high in a white petticoat and blue sleeves against a stage backdrop.

Cancan dancer with stretched leg and arm in her side

Louis Legrand, 1892

Colour print of a seated dancer stretching her leg while a standing woman in a rose dress watches, 1892.

Cancan dancer sitting on a chair while doing a flexibility exercise

Louis Legrand, 1892

Colored print of a seated woman in a blue collar watching a dancer in a white dress lift her leg high.

Cancan dancer doing a flexibility exercise

Louis Legrand, 1892

Sepia print of a young ballerina clutching a pole beside two firemen, with handwritten exhibition invitation text below.

Young ballerina with two firefighters

Louis Legrand, 1896

Etching of a narrow street with old houses and a woman with a basket on the cobbled road, dated 1909.

View of a street with passers-by

Gustave Leheutre, 1909

Etching of a tall old stone house with a pointed gable on a cobbled town square, with small figures in the street.

View of a square in Paimpol

Gustave Leheutre, 1909

Etching of covered barges moored along a river with wooden jetties and a distant city skyline with church towers.

Moored boats in Auteuil, Paris

Gustave Leheutre, 1900

Grey wash drawing of a reclining man attended by women in a classical colonnade, one pouring water from a ewer.

The groom's bath

François-Alexandre Verdier, 1661

Brown ink and white heightened drawing of Venus seated on a cloud beside her chariot, holding reins, with birds nearby.

Venus seated next to her chariot on the clouds

François-Alexandre Verdier, 1661

Black chalk drawing on grey paper of a kneeling nude woman seen from behind, holding a bowl and pointing to the left.

Study of a kneeling nude girl

François-Alexandre Verdier, 1661

Lithograph of conductor Joh. M. Coenen with baton, musicians, a bearded portrait medallion, laurel, mandolin and a wreath bel

Joh. M. Coenen

Johan Braakensiek, 1889

Mounted sheet of Art Nouveau certificate design, monograms and vignettes by R.W.P. de Vries Jr., 1884.

Proof of participation for the Decorative Art course by R.W.P. de Vries Jr., vignettes and monograms

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1884

Tan book cover design with black stylized floral borders and red lettering reading Het Land van Rembrand by Busken Huet.

Binding design for: Cd. Busken Huet, Het land van Rembrand, vol. 1, 1898

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1898

Two advertisement cards: City-Magazijn Amsterdam with an envelope motif, and Tanel's Prima Indiano with an ink bottle illustr

Advertisements for City-Magazijn Amsterdam and Tanel's Prima Indiano

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1884

Design sheet with stylized animal border, interlaced monograms in red and gold, and a decorative initial J.

Vignettes with animals and monograms and an initial J

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1884

Two printed cards: a 1913 Amsterdam graphic arts exhibition advertisement and a lodging card showing the Amsterdam coat of ar

Advertisements for the international exhibition of Graphic Art in Amsterdam and lodging Het Wapen van Amsterdam

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1884

Engraved street scene of a crowded Amsterdam square with carts, flags, a raised stage, and a printed verse below.

Fair print of the Amsterdam ash-cart men for the year 1846

Dirk Wijbrand Tollenaar, 1846

Engraved print of a crowded fairground square with carts, flags, a decorated balcony and a classical building, with verse bel

Fair print of the Amsterdam ash-cart men for the year 1857

Dirk Wijbrand Tollenaar, 1857

Grey-toned oval portrait of a man in a dark military uniform with high collar and epaulette, smoke behind him.

Portrait of an officer

Ernst Willem Jan Bagelaar, 1785

Sketch for a portrait of an officer

Ernst Willem Jan Bagelaar, 1785

Grey wash drawing of armored Pallas with spear pointing beside a seated crowned woman holding scales, with cherubs above.

Pallas and Justice

Dirk van der Aa, 1767

Watercolor of a pink double hyacinth with arching green leaves standing on a patch of earth, signed Augustini 1762.

The pink hyacinth Rex Rubrorum

Jan Augustini, 1762

Watercolor of a blue hyacinth with a dense spike of pale blue flowers above long green leaves on a patch of ground.

The blue hyacinth Franciscus Primus

Jan Augustini, 1762

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

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

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