Between 09:00 and 21:00 people were allowed in for free. There were 12,500 visitors away.
Before Minister Jet Bussemaker (Culture) opened the doors, there was a big queue outside the door. Within fifteen minutes about two thousand people were inside.
‘It is catching on tremendously. Throughout the day, it’s been busy, ” said a spokeswoman for the museum. Visitors can except in the room where the two portraits hang in the rest of the museum visit
Video:. Marten and Oopjen the Rijksmuseum
Restoration
the much-discussed paintings, which have been given a prominent place next to the Night Watch , hang the next three months in the Reichstag.
After undergoing a restoration, which they then alternately display in the Louvre in Paris and Amsterdam.
Among the first visitors Saturday opened exhibition are also many children and tourists. “It’s a diverse audience and there are lots of families. Also around the museum in the museum garden there is much interest in the old Dutch games. There is a good atmosphere.”
France
the Netherlands and France have the artworks purchased together by a French private. They each paid 80 million euros for the two-meter high portraits, created in 1634.
paintings have been privately nearly four hundred years. Rembrandt painted the young couple full-length, something that only happened to the princes at the time.
on the canvases are Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit, then 23 and 21 years old, can be seen in expensive suits for French fashion Their marriage did not last long, because Marten died at the age of 28
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