{"id":146086,"date":"2026-04-02T13:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/?p=146086"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:58:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:58:47","slug":"photography-mesdag-collection-in-the-hague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designjaap.com\/?p=146086","title":{"rendered":"photography Mesdag Collection in The Hague"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Mesdag Collection<\/a> is an art museum in The Hague, Netherlands. It is managed by the Van Gogh Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Mesdag Collection<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The museum<\/a> is housed next to the former house of the Dutch painter Hendrik Willem Mesdag and shows the art Mesdag and his wife Sina van Houten collected from 1866 to 1903. It features work of the painters of the Hague School like Willem Roelofs and Anton Mauve and work of the French Barbizon School (Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Th\u00e9odore Rousseau, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Millet, Charles-Fran\u00e7ois Daubigny and Eug\u00e8ne Delacroix and paintings of Lawrence Alma-Tadema. There is also a large collection of Japanese art and Japanese craftwork (pottery) on show. This all is shown in a typical 19th-century setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Mesdag Collection<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The museum<\/a> was closed for renovation for roughtly two years until Spring 2011. On 14 May 2011 it was re-opened and renamed from “Museum Mesdag” to “The Mesdag Collection”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Panorama Mesdag is housed in different premises within walking distance from The Mesdag Collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1887, Hendrik Willem Mesdag and Sina Van Houten finished construction on a building next to their house to serve as a museum for their art collection. In 1903, Hendrik Mesdag donated the museum to the Netherlands. After Henrik Mesdag’s death in 1915, parts of his private collection were sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a photographic impression of architecture and collection of the Mesdag Collection<\/a> in Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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