This splendid edition depicts and describes more than 230 painted portraits belonging to the renowned collection of the Mauritshuis in the Hague. Aside from portraits by the three great masters of seventeenth century Dutch painting, Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer, including such world-famous works as The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp and Girl with a Pearl Earring, the book explores many other paintings from the fifteenth to eighteenth century. An introductory essay by R. Ekkart, an authority in the field of portrait painting, describes the genesis of the collection and explains the links between various portraits in the Mauritshuis collection.
