What would you do if you won the lottery? 💵💰💸 In the 18th century, people allready loved the lottery. Here they’re fighting eachother to enter the lottery agency in the Kalverstraat, in Amsterdam.  👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200110487

Who would you write a love note to today? 💌 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/comparer/De-Liefdesbrief--a53cb2f6-88a8-498c-539b-08dd452c455c

When the World Expo took over the Museum Square in 1895, they went all out, including placing a full-size ship right in front of the Rijksmuseum.  The ship was transformed into a floating restaurant where visitors could dine.🚢 https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/discover/city-and-country/city

Which image catches your eye first? 🤍 In Japanese culture, cranes aren’t just beautiful, they’re powerful symbols of longevity, prosperity, happiness and wisdom. 🙏 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/discover

What book do you think this girl is reading? 📚 Amsterdam painter Nicolaas van der Waay was fascinated by the appearance of girls of the Amsterdam citizen orphanage, and made numerous paintings of them, like this one.  👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20028509

Flowers or fruit, what makes you tick? 🍇🌼🍑🌷🫐   For Jan van Huysum it was definitely both. In the 18th century, he brought the popular genre of flower painting to great heights. 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200109397

These are the syndics of the Amsterdam drapers’ guild, who inspected cloth for a year. Although six men are shown, only five were syndics. The man without a hat is their servant, Frans Hendricksz Bel, who lived in the Staalhof and didn’t pay for his portrait. 🎩 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200107929

What can you make with just paper and scissors? ✂️ 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/story/elisabeth-rijbergh-paper-precision

The painter Pieter Frederik van Os surrounded himself with inspiration: nude model drawings, plaster casts, a sketch of a goat, and a horseshoe, clues to his focus on painting animals. A young pupil kneels by the grand 17th-century fireplace. ✨ 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200109455

Can you name five monumental buildings in Amsterdam? 🏰 The Amsterdam Town Hall on Dam Square symbolizes the tremendous growth and development the city experienced during the 17th century in the Netherlands. 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/node/Amsterdam--563bd9ccdafc974641140a5932813f08

What kind of hat would you choose to wear? 👑👒 Today marks Prinsjesdag in the Netherlands, the King presents the government’s agenda for the year. It's also famously celebrated for the fashionable hats worn by Members of Parliament. 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection

Which of these kachōga prints do you like most? 🤔🦚🪷 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/node/Ohara-Koson--0e0c393b0a262a080532ae59346c8c35

Rembrandt’s largest painting, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Jan Deijman, was damaged in a fire. It showed eight surgeons watching him dissect the brain of criminal Joris Fonteijn. 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/masterpieces-on-loan-rembrandt-and-willem-van-de-velde-in-the-gallery-of-honour

An ode to George Hendrik Breitner, who was born on this day in 1857 🎉 Which painting do you like best?  👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/dutch-masters/story/george-hendrik-breitner-10

Did Pieter de Hooch paint a boy or a girl?  It’s… a boy! In the 17th century both girls and boys wore dresses until they were about 7 years old. Textiles were very expensive, so this way siblings could wear the same clothes over and over again. 👦 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200109391

Which of these brooches would you wear? ✨ If you think brooches are just accessories, think again. They come in every shape and size: delicate and discreet, bold and bossy, sparkling with gems or shining in plain gold. 💠 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/discover

Imagine it was 1778, where would you like to live? 🏡 Dutch painter Paulus Constantijn la Fargue lived all his life in The Hague, where he specialized in topographical views. Like this one of the Haagse Bos, a wooded area in his city 🌳 🌲 🌴 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200111828

Which flowers do you recognize? 🌷🌼 🌺 This work is made in 1762 by Cornelia van der Mijn, who’s still lives were in great demand in London at the time.  👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20028711

In a garden of an Amsterdam canal house, the master of the house picks grapes with his daughter. In the foreground their maidservant cleans vegetables in the shade. What will they have for diner? Hint: it’s something that their parrot seems to like too!  👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200109041

Vermeer transformed a simple act into something monumental. The maid pours, completely absorbed in her task, while the world around her is still. Look closer and see how Vermeer used countless tiny dots of color to make the light shimmer across objects. 💙 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108369

Elisabeth Troost is dressed in the latest fashion for wealthy ladies: a robe à la française, with layers of lace on the sleeves. A lace ‘fichu’ draped over her shoulders, and, of course, a lace cap to keep her hair back tightly and out of her face. 👗 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20079542

What place would you like to turn into a painting? ☀ Zoutelande's light is so extraordinary that Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig built a summer house there so he could paint the sweltering summer light over and over again. 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200109353

Which technique catches your eye first? 🔍 From a quick flick of white to a delicate glaze, 17th-century painters had endless tricks for making jewellery sparkle. Each earring here is a tiny masterclass! ✨ 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection

What do you think is this lady’s profession? 🤔 If you ordered a portrait by Frans Hals you were guaranteed of a painting full of liveliness. ✨ Maritge Vooght grew up in a Haarlem family business of brewers and established a brewery of her own. 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200109374

Guess how many strawberries are in this bowl? 🍓 🖼️ Adriaen Coorte, A Bowl of Strawberries on a Stone Plinth, 1696 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200367359

Which flower is your favourite? 🌸🌻🌹 🖼️ School of Nicolas de Largillière, Portrait of a Woman, according to tradition Marie Louise Elisabeth d'Orléans, Duchesse de Berry, as Flora, 1690 - 1740

What feeling does this image evoke in you? 🌊 🖼️ Kawase Hasui, Morning in Beppu, 1928

Artists once used these prints to study expressions. Based on Descartes’ Treatise on the Passions of the Soul (1649), which argued that body and soul are separate but influence each other. 👁️ Now on show in Fiona Tan: Monomania: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/fiona-tan-monomania

Meet the 'centenbak': the Habsburg jaw. Emperor Charles V’s jaw was so large he could barely eat. Why? Because the Habsburgs wanted to keep power in the family, so they kept marrying their relatives. 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/node/Habsburgse-huis--657d46a3d3268ad050c78ac7bba4eedd

Is there an object in your home that brings back a cherished memory? 💙 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200109415

Which one of these dogs would you bring home? 🐾 Small, shaggy, elegant, or wild: there’s a dog hiding in so many of our artworks. Which one would you choose as your companion? 🐕 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/node/hond--a9214ad010573372c97ce03650a318c1

This is Kenau, owner of a shipbuilding business. During the seven-month Spanish siege of Haarlem, she led a group of women defending the city. The siege, among the most notorious of the Eighty Years’ War, made Kenau famous as a hero. 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108524

What do you think the lady on the white horse is saying? 🐴 This elegant couple is about to take a ferryboat. They have no choice, because the bridge in the distance has collapsed... 🐄 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20026721

Which fruits do you recognise in this still life? 🍇 🍋 🍑 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108431

In the 17th century, a hand on the hip was a masculine pose conveying status and prestige. Geertruida’s outstretched hand points to Rotterdam’s harbour. She oversaw supplies for her husband’s ships, Lieutenant Admiral Aert van Nes. 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20027048

This is William Rex - a scale model of a Dutch ship of the line. Built in the Vlissingen dockyards. It was once proudly displayed in the Admiralty of Zeeland’s council chamber in Middelburg. 🚢 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200315848

While preparing this chimneypiece for our upcoming exhibition, conservators uncovered something unexpected. Hidden under wax and dirt: vibrant blue, the same pigment as Vermeer and Rembrandt. Was this fireplace once blue? 🔵 👁️ www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/...

How many times a day do you look in the mirror? 🪞 Mirrors have long fascinated artists, not just for their reflections, but for how they pull viewers into the painting. In these works from our collection, mirrors show up in all forms. 👀 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection

How do you interpret this painting? 🎨 It was probably one of Jacob Maris’s daughters who modelled for this idyllic scene, he regularly used his children as models for his atmospheric sketches.  🖼️ Jacob Maris, A Girl with Flowers on the Grass, 1878

Have you ever been at sea in the middle of a storm? 🌊 Jan Schotel was fascinated by the sea, he made dozens of paintings of the swirling water, showing not only its beauty, but also how dangerous and unpredictable it can be.  👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20026302

What do you think of pastels? 🖍️ Swiss painter Jean-Etienne Liotard impressed the French crown princess with his pastels that he was asked to portray nearly the entire royal family. Easy to carry and quick to use, pastels were ideal for travelling artists. 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108464

What title would you give this sculpture? 💘 Perched on a cloud with a sly smile and finger to his lips, this 18th-century Cupid by Étienne-Maurice Falconet is full of charm and mischief. 👼 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200116207

Which creature is your favourite? 🐦🍄‍🟫🦎 Melchior d'Hondecoeter was famous for painting birds. But, as you can see, he was also very good at painting so called ‘sottobosco’s’. 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20028083

In the 1600s, Delft became the center of Dutch pottery. Inspired by Chinese porcelain, local makers created blue-and-white ceramics with a Dutch twist: Delftware. 💙🤍 👁️ www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/node/Delfts-aardewerk--9796684f8d234ce4a661750b1a3a1748

This sculpture likely shows Cupid. After stealing honey, he gets stung by a bee, a scene described in a poem attributed to the Greek poet Theocritus. The sculptor Hendrik de Keyser captures the sharp sting of surprise with a striking facial expression. 😭 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200490038

If you could ask Mary a question, what would it be? 💭 As always in art from the 14th, 15th century, the Virgin Mary wears a blue cloak. Blue is the colour of heaven, the divine, and at that time blue pigment was even more expensive than gold. 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20025748

Every object in a vanitas painting has symbolic meaning: ☠️ Skulls: life is fleeting ⏳ Hourglass: time slips away 🕯️ Candle: life can end in a breath 📚 Valuables like books and documents show the emptiness of wealth, knowledge, and power in the face of death 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20026298

Meet Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema, 19th century English painter who was highly inspired by 17th-century Dutch paintings.  👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/node/Laura-Theresa-Alma-Tadema-Lady--8359add869e8d56aa46c2a9a120f7f5d

Which cat is your favourite? 🐈 🐾 Meet the real muses of the Rijksmuseum. Cats are regularly depicted in paintings, not only as pets, but also to represent certain characteristics or situations.  👁️ Discover more cats: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/10-things/story/10-cats-in-the-rijksmuseum

If you could serenade someone, who would it be? 🎶 Judith Leyster was the first woman to become a master painter in the Netherlands in the 17th century. This high status allowed her to open her own studio in Haarlem and take on pupils. ❤️ 👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200109431