The exhibition "Masterpieces of Dutch painting" from the Hermitage collection will be held in Amsterdam in 2017

In 2017, Amsterdam will host an exhibition "Masterpieces of Dutch painting", this exhibition will feature 60 paintings by Dutch masters XVI-XVII from the collection of the State Hermitage.

Petersburg's "Dutchs" will leave their historic homeland. The following year, in the center "Hermitage Amsterdam" will open the exhibition "Masterpieces of Dutch painting." Total to Amsterdam at least six months will send 60 the most significant paintings of the Dutch masters in the Hermitage collection. This exhibition will be a significant event, as in the Netherlands, and Russia.

And yet in the St. Petersburg museum ends with the restoration of the painting "New market in Amsterdam." This is the work of the famous Dutch painter Bartholomeus van der Helsta. The well-known portraits of the Amsterdam elite painter opens with an unexpected side. Daily scene of urban life, according to researchers, actually - page personal life of the author. Experts believe that Van der Helst as traders greens depicted his wife Anna, and this painting - a unique gift for the 30th anniversary of their wedding. Striking, as they say, photorealistic images of objects. This "kvazirealizm" certainly shocked his contemporaries. But over the years, and the picture is already 350 years old, the paint faded, distorted color multiple layers of lacquer.

"The painting of amazing beauty is impressive. Beauty rose after restoration. This work has always been the pride of the Hermitage and had never traveled outside the Hermitage for 200 years ", - said General Director of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky.