# The Rijksmuseum masterpieces you must see

The highlights of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, from The Night Watch to Petronella Oortman's doll's house, according to the best-known museum guides.

- 24 votes · 17 items
- Jan 9, 2023 · dogear_old
- https://even.best/en/l/2219/the-rijksmuseum-masterpieces-you-must-see

## Top 17

1. **Woman Reading a Letter** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Vermeer, c. 1663. A woman reads a letter in silence.
2. **The Night Watch** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Rembrandt, 1642. Captain Frans Banninck Cocq's militia company on the move.
3. **The Milkmaid** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Vermeer, c. 1658. Light, blue and a thin stream of milk.
4. **The Jewish Bride** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Rembrandt, c. 1665-1669. Van Gogh said he could sit in front of it for days.
5. **The Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Jacob van Ruisdael, c. 1668-1670. The Dutch windmill under a stormy sky.
6. **The Little Street** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Vermeer, c. 1658. An ordinary Delft house, painted extraordinarily.
7. **Portraits of Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Rembrandt, 1634. The wedding pair jointly bought by the Netherlands and France.
8. **Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Hendrick Avercamp, c. 1608. Hundreds of tiny figures on the ice.
9. **Doll's House of Petronella Oortman** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — c. 1686-1710. A canal house in miniature, down to every detail.
10. **The Battle of Waterloo** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Jan Willem Pieneman, 1824. The largest painting in the museum.
11. **The Cuypers Library** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The largest and oldest art history library in the Netherlands, inside the building.
12. **Self-Portrait (Van Gogh)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Vincent van Gogh, 1887. From his Paris period, in lively dashes.
13. **The Merry Drinker** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Frans Hals, c. 1628-1630. A laughing man raising his glass to you.
14. **The Merry Family** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jan Steen, 1668. A messy, partying family.
15. **Hugo Grotius's Book Chest** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The chest in which Hugo Grotius escaped from Loevestein Castle in 1621.
16. **The Syndics of the Drapers' Guild** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — Rembrandt, 1662. Six men look up as if you just walked in.
17. **The Threatened Swan** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Jan Asselijn, c. 1650. Later read as a symbol of Johan de Witt.

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