NOTE: This post contains a whole lot of pictures of art and no much else. You will lose little if any of the story of our trip if you skip this post. We certainly won’t be offended.

Tuesday afternoon we visited the Mauritshuis Gallery. Housed in a house dating from the 17th century, the gallery contains a significant number of works by Dutch masters including Rembrandt, Vermeer, Jan Steen, and others. We spent just over an hour in the house completing a ‘once over’ survey of the displayed collection. Here are the pieces we found most interesting.

We start with Rembrandt:

Next we look at Johannes Vermeer:

Confession time, I’m really drawn to the work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Adriaen Brouwer, Jan Steen, and others who focus, in great detail, on the lives of ordinary people living daily lives – sometimes celebrating, other times just trying to make it from day to day. Check these out:

Similar in detail but religious in theme are these two:

Finally are three extraordinary works that caught my eye:

OK, this post is probably about as long as it seems, so I’m going to put the Escher in a different post.

Till then…
R