A small glass, overflowing with abundance. In the 17th century, a bouquet like this one by Jan Brueghel would have felt almost impossibly luxurious, a rare gathering of precious flowers in one place.  👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20013287

Our best 9 posts of the year! Which post did you love the most? 🍾 As 2025 draws to a close, we want to say a heartfelt thank you for being part of our journey. Your comments and likes mean so much to us. We look forward to welcoming you again in the new year! ❤️ 👁️ www.rijksmuseum.nl/stories

What do you think of this flower still-life? 💐  In his new approach to flower still-lifes, Floris Verster put the emphasis no longer on creating lavish displays of exotic blossoms, but rather on portraying light and the natural process of growth and decay.   👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20058995

Where do you live? Have you had any snow yet? 🌨️ ☃️❄️  For this winter landscape, Dutch painter Barend Koekkoek chose a hilly region in Gelderland, a province in the eastern part of the Netherlands, or the German region of the Lower Rhine.   👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200111820

Meet the muff: a fuzzy tube of warmth, status, and secrets. Once a symbol of refinement, it wrapped hands in luxury and sometimes hid clever pockets (and the occasional rumoured lapdog). 🐾  👁️ Discover more: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/set/mof--e937f704-943c-496f-dd14-08dd0f2c01a3

In winter, with its short days and chilly evenings, we look for ways to keep our homes warm and bright. Throughout history, people have found all kinds of special ways to bring light into the darkness. 🔥🕯️ 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/10-things/story/lights-of-the-rijksmuseum

What kind of reader are you this winter? 📖❄️ In these scenes, we see how reading has always been a way to slow down. Readers lost in their own world: absorbed, dreaming, or thinking. 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection

Which is your favourite depiction of baby Jesus in our collection? ✨🔍 In these details, baby Jesus appears in many forms. Each depiction reflects the style and symbolism of its time, whether through idealised holiness or very human vulnerability. 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection

After hours, when the Cuypers Library falls silent, a little holiday magic slips in. 🎅🎶🌠  🎄 From all of us at the Rijksmuseum, we wish you a joyful and festive holiday season!  👀 https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/families-children/christmas-holiday

This triptych by Willem Joseph Laquy illustrates the journey of learning: from nurturing and education to practice and mastery. 🕯️📚 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection

In The Tailors Workshop, everyday routines are brought to life. A woman with her market basket negotiates over a coat while tailors work on a raised platform to catch the daylight. Threads hang ready above the table, and a river landscape decorates the wall. 🧥✨ 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108320

In memoriam Hans van Manen 🖼️ Hans van Manen, Stretching (Albert Jan van der Stel), 1985. Gift of Hans van Manen and Henk van Dijk, 2024

In many 17th century homes, walls were finished with white plaster, fresh in appearance but easily damaged. A border of glazed tiles protected the plinth from moisture and knocks caused by sweeping and scrubbing. 🐦 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection

This is a 17th-century "kinderkakstoel"- literally a “poo chair” for children. It was designed to make life easier for parents. The seat has an opening with a pot underneath, toddlers could do their business without leaving the chair. 👶 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/10-things/story/home

Today marks 350 years since the death of Johannes Vermeer. Vermeer is renowned for his calm, intimate interior scenes of everyday life. 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/node/Johannes-Vermeer--5eb6c8bfe50817180452a6fcfb20510d

What do a banquet, a monkey, and an oddly shaved lapdog have in common? 🐒 🍇🐶  Well, yes, it’s all about wealth. But essentially, this is Adriaen van Utrecht showing off. The Flemish painter demonstrates that he can paint virtually anything. 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200110752

How do you raise a glass to friendship in the 17th century? 🍷 Large glasses like this one were passed from hand to hand during a toast. The Latin inscription roughly means: 'This is how I treat my friends.' In other words: those I drink with, I hold dear. 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200386680

Skaters trace glowing lines across the ice, people gather under the sparkly tree, and above it all the soft light of Steve McQueen’s Occupied City flickers on the Rijksmuseum façade. ✨ ⛄️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/families-children/christmas-holiday

If you could borrow one item for your holiday table, what would it be? 🥂✨ The sparkle of a roemer glass, porcelain dishes, ripe fruit, and carefully arranged pies, Dutch still lifes transformed table settings into warm celebrations. 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection

What’s the first thing you do when it starts snowing? 🌨️☃️ Kamisaka Sekka is regarded as one of the most important artists of the Neo-Rinpa style that emerged in Japan at the end of the 19th century.  👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200317601

What’s your favourite item in this still life? 🍋🏺🍸  🖼️ Simon Luttichuys, Still Life with Fruit, Plates and Dishes on a Turkey Carpet, 1650 - 1680. Gift of the heirs of C. Hoogendijk 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20027878

What would you name this little dog? 🐶 The party figures represent the five senses: smell 👃, sight 👀, touch ✋, taste 👅, and hearing 👂. The Deluge on the wall warns there’s more to life than pleasure. 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200109275

What moment of childhood magic do you remember most? ✨ In this scene by Miep de Feijter, four children stand spellbound around a brightly decorated tree. Lights, garlands, presents and a shining topper turn the room into a small celebration of anticipation. 🎄 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200629311

What do you want 'Sinterklaas' to bring you? 🎁🍊 In the Netherlands the celebration of Saint Nicholas is a big thing. On the night before 5 December, children put out their shoes. Good children receive gifts, while naughty ones might get a bundle of twigs. 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/2006398

How many creatures can you spot hiding in this scene? 🐛 This 17th-century still life by Jan Davidsz. de Heem is a celebration of abundance. Look closely - there’s more than just flowers here... 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20029045

Lizzy was part of the ‘Amsterdam Joffers’, a group of female painters. This portrait was painted by her aunt, Thérèse Schwartze, a renowned and highly successful society portraitist. 🖌️ 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/one-hundred-masterpieces/story/portrait-of-lizzy-ansingh

Which instrument would you love to play? 🎻🎷🪈🥁🪕 At the Rijksmuseum, over 700 musical instruments, including wind, keyboard, string and percussion instruments.  👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/node/muziekinstrument--dd978fd436b5b2af5ddb7fbed23bdce0

With flushed cheeks and an empty jug held high, this cheerful drinker captures a moment of festive joy. It was painted in 1629 by Judith Leyster, Haarlem’s only female master painter. This work is one of her most celebrated pieces. 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20014007

How many shades of blue do you see in this painting? 💙  🖼️ Johannes Vermeer, Woman Reading a Letter, c. 1663 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108372

This portrait shows Hortensia del Prado, a Dutch noblewoman. On the back of the painting her name, age, three family coats of arms, and the mysterious number 32 are inscribed, leaving us with a small mystery surrounding her portrait. ✨ 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20027920

Which detail is your favourite? 💐 One of the most important Dutch female painters of the 17th century, Maria van Oosterwijck was renowned for her still lifes. This is a classic vanitas: a reminder that beauty fades, riches disappear, and life passes quickly. 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200164103

What do you think that wooden thing in the front right is? 🤔 🖼️ Pieter de Hooch, A Mother Delousing her Child’s Hair, Known as ‘A Mother’s Duty’, c. 1660 - 1661 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20028104

Which necklace is your favourite? ✨ Necklaces have always had a way of drawing the eye. Each piece adds a subtle spark, guiding our gaze through the portrait and giving us clues to the subjects story. 💎💍 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection

Today marks half a century since Suriname became independent from Dutch colonial rule. Srefidensi Dey, or Independence Day, is a day of freedom and national pride. 🇸🇷 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/in-detail/story/in-honor-of-srefidensi-dey

Which one is your favourite? 🖼️ A woman and a man in the audience at a concert, 1893  They’re all made by the foremost poster designer of his time: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, who was born on this day in 1864 🎉  👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200398736

What do you think she is daydreaming about? 🎶 Fernand Khnopff painted his aunt lost in thought, her hand resting lightly on the piano keys. Layers of varnish give her skin a soft and luminous glow. The music has stopped but her daydream continues. 💭 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20088786

The façade of the Rijksmuseum is transformed by Steve McQueen’s Occupied City (Still), a 34-hour film shown on the exterior of the museum. The film’s core is the occupation of Amsterdam during the Second World War. 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/steve-mcqueen-occupied-city

What is your first thought when looking at this portrait? 🤔 Rembrandt painted his son Titus with downcast eyes in a Franciscan habit, symbolizing poverty and humility. This is evident in his coarse robe and thoughtful expression. 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200107937

Which pair would you try on first? 👓✨ Each pair carries its own story, shaped by the eyes that once looked through them.🔍 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection

Which city view would you like to see in a painting? 🎨 In this scene, George Hendrik Breitner captured the Damrak in Amsterdam, with the houses along the Warmoesstraat and the tower of the Oude Kerk. 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20026774

What would this guy's pick-up line be? 🤔 🖼️ Albert Neuhuys, Fisher-Courtship, 1880 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20027279

Which animal is your favourite? 🐘🐰🦄  👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200107888

Jacob Maris painted this so-called bluff-bowed ship on the beach in Scheveningen. Coastal villages didn’t have a harbour, so ships had to set sail straight from the beach and return there again. Horses helped them get in and out of the water. 🐴⛵ 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20028264

Which plate would you choose for your table? 💙🍽️ Since the 17th century, artists have been painting flowers, birds, and even biblical scenes on Delftware plates. 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection

What do you think this scene sounds like? 🎶 Laughter, music, and the soft notes of a lute fill the room. Pieter Codde’s Gallant Company captures a moment of merriment, where song, flirtation, and a hint of vanity mingle together. 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200109188

Which piece of fruit would you reach for first? 🍋🍒 A peeled lemon, ripe cherries, and a bowl brimming with grapes, figs, and peaches, each painted with exquisite detail. 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200109351

Which of these patterns would you choose? 🤔 Need fresh ideas for your wallpaper, cushions, curtains, or rug? Get inspired by the Rijksmuseum’s online collection, a treasure trove of patterns, colours, and creativity! 🦜🍂🐟 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection

Vermeer’s Milkmaid glows with blues, yellows and soft browns. His secret? Hundreds of tiny dots of colour, and his favourite pigment of all: ultramarine, made from lapis lazuli, once more precious than gold. 💙 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/themes/vermeer/story/milkmaid-high-resolution

Which chair is your favourite? 🪑 From carved oak and gilded flourishes to woven cane and velvet cushions, chairs have taken many forms over time. Some were made to impress guests, others for quiet moments of reading or reflection. 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection

Which painting by Jan Willem Pieneman do you like best?  The Dutch painter Jan Willem Pieneman was born today in 1779 🎉.  👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200107874