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The Mauritshuis (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmʌurɪtsˌɦœys], The Hague dialect: [ˈmɑːʁɪtsˌɦœːs]; lit. ' Maurice House ') is an art museum in The Hague, Netherlands. The museum houses the Royal Cabinet of Paintings which consists of 854 objects, mostly Dutch Golden Age paintings.
The Hague (/ h eɪ ɡ / HAYG; Dutch: Den Haag [dɛn ˈɦaːx] ⓘ or 's-Gravenhage [ˌsxraːvə(n)ˈɦaːɣə] ⓘ) is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands.
The museum has a collection of around 7,500 objects. This includes silsver guild vases, an almost five meter wide panorama of The Hague created by Jan van Goyen, dolls' houses by Lita de Ranitz en paintings by Jan van Ravesteyn, Paulus Constantijn la Fargue en Jan Steen, and also unusual objects such as the finger of Cornelis de Witt and the tongue of his brother Johan de Witt.
This is an enormous and famous portrait which was in the Prince William V Gallery collection that Napoleon took to Paris in 1795 and through a later treaty was returned in 1815. It hung in the Louvre for 20 years. Livestock analysts have noted from the depiction of the various parts of the bull's anatomy that it appears to be a composite of ...
Escher in Het Paleis (Escher in The Palace) is a museum in The Hague, Netherlands, featuring the works of the Dutch graphical artist M. C. Escher. It is housed in the Lange Voorhout Palace since November 2002. [1]
The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is an art museum in The Hague in the Netherlands, founded in 1866 as the Museum voor Moderne Kunst. Later, until 1998, it was known as Haags Gemeentemuseum, and until the end of September 2019 as Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. It has a collection of around 165,000 works, over many different forms of art.
Haagse Kunstkring, winter 1994. The Haagse Kunstkring (English The Hague Art Circle) is an association in The Hague for artists and art lovers. Among the members are visual artists, architects, writers, recitation artists, photographers, musicians and designers.
It is located adjacent to the Binnenhof, the meeting place of the States General of the Netherlands; the entrance to the House of Representatives can be found on Plein 2. [1] The Mauritshuis art museum is located on Plein 29. [2] Plein was originally a garden, forming a part of the Binnenhof castle, residence of the Counts of Holland. It was ...