The exhibition Loot - 10 stories that was scheduled from July 6 has been postponed to autumn 2023. We will keep everyone informed of the exact date.
My Girl with a Pearl (beginning of February - 4 June)
From February 2023, the world-famous and best-loved masterpiece in the collection, Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, will be on loan to the Rijksmuseum for eight weeks for the largest Vermeer exhibition ever organised. Yet during that period, the Girl will also be on display in her familiar spot at the Mauritshuis. From her departure, everyone will have a chance to come and hang their own work, inspired by the Girl, in our museum's most important spot. The presentation My Girl with a Pearl shows that the Girl is recognisable in everything and everyone. In a son or daughter, the dog, an iron or even as an onion, corn on the cob or a frankfurter. Take something blue, something yellow, and voila: there she is! Incidentally, View on Delft and Diana and her nymphs will also go to Amsterdam, staying there until the end of the exhibition (4 June).
Jacobus Vrel, forerunner of Vermeer (16 February - 29 May)
We know almost nothing about the painter Vrel; the term 'enigmatic' certainly applies to him. He was active from about 1640 to 1660, worked somewhere in the eastern Netherlands and we know about 50 paintings by him: street scenes with figures and intimate, tranquil scenes indoors. Vrel is considered one of the pathfinders of famous painters such as Pieter de Hooch and Johannes Vermeer because of his unusual representations. For a long time, some of Vrel's paintings were even credited to Johannes Vermeer. The story of Vrel's rediscovery in the 19th and early 20th centuries will be told in this exhibition through a selection of his best works. Image above: Jacobus Vrel, Woman on a Chair, looking at a child behind the window. This exhibition will also be shown in Paris afterwards.
Loot - 10 stories (Autumn 2023 - January 2024)
A very topical subject will be at the centre of this exhibition, namely: looted art. In recent years, many museums at home and abroad have been investigating the provenance of their collections. These include both art with a wartime past, looted from Jewish owners in World War II, and colonial looted art. By properly mapping the history of the objects, the future of this looted art can be considered. This exhibition lets the, mostly virtual objects, tell their own history using virtual reality, augmented reality and replicas. The subject matter has a direct link to the Mauritshuis. Many of the paintings from this museum hung in the Louvre between 1795 and 1815, looted from The Hague by the French occupiers. In addition, paintings looted by the Nazis are in the collection.
