Mauritshuis Exhibits Extraordinary Private Collection in 2010. The Mauritshuis is delighted to announce that it has the privilege of exhibiting a private collection of paintings, largely unknown to the public, in the autumn of 2010. Entitled Made in [[Holland]], the exhibition consists of around forty paintings dating from the Dutch Golden Age that are outstanding in quality and frequently intriguing in subject matter.

The selection includes works by Rembrandt,Frans Hals, Paulus Potter, Jan Steen and Hendrick Avercamp. The exhibition opens to the public on 4 November 2010 and will be on view until 30 January 2011 in The Hague.

Eijk en Rose-Marie de Mol van Otterloo, the couple that built the collection, have been acquiring art since 1974. Years of activity have resulted in an unusually beautiful ensemble of seventeenth-century Dutch and some Flemish paintings. It includes works of various genres such as still lifes, landscapes, marines and portraits. The collection is continually improving thanks to acquisitions of extraordinary quality. As many of the paintings were originally made for residential buildings, the exhibition Made in Holland is particularly well suited for the rooms in the Mauritshuis, built in the seventeenth century as the home of Johan Maurits, Count of Nassau Siegen (1604-1679).

The exhibition will move on from The Hague to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts (USA). The Dutch showing of the exhibition is made possible partly with the financial support of the Turing Foundation.

Made in Holland is part of the official programme for Holland Art Cities 2009-2010.

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