The Mesdag Collection

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The Mesdag Collection
De Masdag Collectie
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Location within South Holland
Former name
Museum Mesdag
Location The Hague, Netherlands
Type Art museum
Website www.demesdagcollectie.nl/en

The Mesdag Collection is an art museum in The Hague, Netherlands. It is managed by the Van Gogh Museum.

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The museum 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 [1] 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, Théodore Rousseau, Jean-François Millet, Charles-François Daubigny and Eugène 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.

The museum was closed for renovation until Spring 2011. On 14 May 2011 it was re-opened and renamed from "Museum Mesdag" to "The Mesdag Collection".

The Panorama Mesdag is housed in different premises within walking distance from The Mesdag Collection.[ citation needed ]

History

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. [2] In 1903, Hendrik Mesdag donated the museum to the Netherlands. [1] After Henrik Mesdag's death in 1915, parts of his private collection were sold. [3]

In 1990, the museum came under the management of the Van Gogh Museum. [1] From 2011 to 2015, the Van Gogh Museum and the Netherlands Institute for Art History researched and digitized the Mesdags' original art collection, the current Mesdag collection, and Henrik Mesdag's letters. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "The Mesdag Collection". Van Gogh Museum . Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  2. "A museum of their own". De Mesdag Collectie. Retrieved 2022-11-06.
  3. 1 2 "Mesdag Year 2015 has Started". De Mesdag Collectie. 12 Feb 2015. Retrieved 2022-11-06.

Coordinates: 52°5′10″N4°17′53″E / 52.08611°N 4.29806°E / 52.08611; 4.29806