Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh

Today was a long day of museums. We first did the Rijksmuseum. See this panorama celebrating the time when the Dutch were a world power.
With the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Dutch West India Company (WIC) they dominated the world and the high seas in the 17th century.

Most of the museum celebrates that time period with Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer.

Lunch at the Cafe Cobra then on to the Van Gogh museum. There were enough paintings by his contemporaries such as Monet to fit his paintings into the Impressionistic period.

A peasant hut.
Still life with carafe and lemons.


The Van Gogh Museum was also having a special exhibit of Barcelona in 1900 that included art, architecture, interior design, jewelry, etc.
An early self portrait of Picasso: