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| Rembrandt van Rijn, The Laughing Man, c. 1629-1630 |
 Jan Steen, Girl Eating Oysters, c. 1658 - 1660 |
 Antoon François Heijligers, Interior of the Rembrandt Room in the Mauritshuis in 1884 |
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| Room with The Bull, Paulus Potter, 1647 |
 Hendrick Avercamp, Ice Scene, c. 1610 |
So happy that I finally visited The Mauritshuis in The Hague! The museum houses primarily Dutch Golden Age paintings, but also shows a couple of beauties by Flemish artists like Pieter Breughel and Rogier van der Weyden.
It was built in the seventeenth century as a private home for Johan Maurits van Nassau, the governor of Brazil (a Dutch colony at that time). The Mauritshuis was nicknamed the 'Sugar House', as Governor van Nassau made a fortune on the backs of enslaved Africans whom he forced to work on sugar plantations in Brazil.
