Highlights of the Collection
The Rijksmuseum's own selection of approximately 1,000 essential works — including The Night Watch, The Milkmaid, and Frans Hals' Banquet of the Officers of the St George Civic Guard.
The Night WatchRembrandt van Rijn · 1642
The Night WatchRembrandt van Rijn · 1642
Curatorial essentials: iconic masterworks of the Rijksmuseum.
elected from over 800,000 objects in the national collection, this curated sequence highlights works of singular historical, technical, and cultural importance.
Centered on the museum's monumental Gallery of Honour, these works trace the pinnacle of seventeenth-century artistic achievement: Rembrandt’s revolutionary Night Watch, Johannes Vermeer’s focused domestic contemplation in The Milkmaid, and Frans Hals’s expressive, gestural brushwork. Together, they offer an immediate, authoritative overview of the artists who shaped Dutch visual history.
