Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands Art Collection

The Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands Art Collection belongs to the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, based in Amersfoort in the Netherlands. Its name points to a close link with the country's cultural heritage. The website lists 31 paintings from the collection, spanning a range of styles and origins. Theo van Doesburg is the most represented artist, with five works, including Mouvement héroïque, Houses, Portrait of Pétro, Dog and Landscape with Windmill and Church. Piet Mondrian is present with Victory Boogie-Woogie, one of the most recognisable pieces in the group, and Vasili Kandinski with Two Surroundings. Vincent van Gogh appears three times, with Poppy field, Water Mill at Gennep and Peasant Woman, Seated with White Cap. The Dutch painting holdings include genre scenes and still lifes, such as Frans van Mieris the Elder's Brothel Scene, Emanuel de Witte's Interior with a Woman at the Virginal and Balthasar van der Ast's Still Life with Shells and an Autumn Crocus. Portraits are also represented, among them J.H. van de Horst's Margaretha Maria de Roodere and Bartholomeus van der Helst's A child's deathbed portrait, alongside Ludolf Backhuysen's marine view The Y off Amsterdam. Other works, such as Hans Baldung's Venus and Amor, Hendrick Goltzius's Minerva and Pieter Coecke van Aelst's Joseph escapes from Potiphar's wife, show the variety of subjects in the collection.