Women

Follow artists, historical and mythical women

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Open this page on your mobile phone. The app will guide you step by step along these artworks in the museum.

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Copy the link and paste it to your phone — 1. Copy the link and paste it to your phone

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Visit your favourite works in the museum — 3. Visit your favourite works in the museum

3. Visit your favourite works in the museum

Women in the museum

1. Tympanum of Egmond, 1122-1133

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156
2. Brussels, Pleurants, c. 1475-1476

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180
3. Maarten van Heemskerck, Portraits, 1529

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122
4. Catharina van Hemessen, Young Woman, 1548

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155
5. Kenau, late 16th–early 17th century

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531
6. Rachel Ruysch, Still Life with Flowers , c. 1690-1720

the Gallery of Honour

552
7. Ferdinand Bol, Regentesses of the Leprozenhuis, c. 1668-1671

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530
8. Dolls’ house Oortman, c. 1686-1710

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567
9. Gabriel Metsu, Woman Eating, c. 1661–1664

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506
10. Thérèse Schwartze, Lizzy Ansingh, 1902

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351
11. Hendrik Mesdag, Fishing Pinks in Breaking Waves, c. 1875–1885

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360
12. Surinamese Girls, c. 1805

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346
13. Marie Bashkirtseff, Alexandrine Patchenko, 1881

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348
14. Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, Cat at Play, c. 1878

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388
15. Johannes van Kempen, Set of matching jewellery, c. 1854-1858

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387
16. Joseph Germain Dutalis, Toilet mirror, 1828 - 1829

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339
17. Jan Toorop, Marie Jeanette de Lange, 1900

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605