Art and Life in Rembrandt’s Time

The Leiden Collection is one of the largest and most important private collections of Dutch seventeenth-century art, founded by French-American collector Thomas S. Kaplan and his wife Daphne Recanati Kaplan. Due to the 750th anniversary of the city of Amsterdam, they are lending 75 works to H’ART Museum Amsterdam.

Through the paintings, the book tells the story of Amsterdam and the ups and downs of its seventeenth-century inhabitants, as seen through the eyes of some of the most influential painters of the century. The exhibition includes no fewer than 17 portraits by the hand of Rembrandt van Rijn – a collection shown to the public in its entirety for the first time. It includes works by Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Frans Hals, Gerard Dou and Maria Schalcken, among others