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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
Plein 29, The Hague.
Tel 070-3023456.
∑ mauritshuis.nl
Open 1–6pm Mon, 10am–6pm
Tue–Sun (to 8pm Thu). Closed
1 Jan, 25 Dec. & 7 8 -=
Transport
From Den Haag CS: @ 22.
v 2, 3, 4, 6, 15. From Den
Haag HS: @ 18. v 1.

First floor The Goldfinch (1654)
This small, elegant painting
is by Carel Fabritius (1622–54),
a pupil of Rembrandt.

The Way You Hear It Is
the Way You Sing It (1663)
This moralistic genre
painting by Jan Steen (see
p127) probably shows
what is meant by a
“huishouden van Jan
Steen” – keeping one’s
house like a pigsty.

. The Louse Hunt (1653)
Gerard ter Borch’s painting
depicts a domestic tableau
and reflects the Dutch
preoccupation with order
and cleanliness during the
17th century.

Key to Floorplan
Portrait gallery
. Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665) 15th- and early 16th-century works
At the mid-point of his career, 18th-century Flemish paintings
Johannes Vermeer painted this Golden room
haunting portrait of a girl wearing a
pearl earring. Stories about the true 17th-century Dutch paintings
origins of the girl abound. Non-exhibition space

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