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Dutch and Flemish Furniture
Another room contains a beautifully painted cylin-
drical ceiling of wood from the apartment of Mary Stuart,
wife of William II, Prince of Orange, also in the Binnen-
hof. The panelling, chimney-piece, gilt leather hangings
and furniture are also of the seventeenth century.
A notable room is that taken from the house of
Constantia Huygens in The Hague, built by Jacob van
Kampen. Blue silk is curiously used to embellish the
panelling. The ceiling, painted by Gerard de Lairesse
(1640-1711) represents Apollo and Aurora. This room
is in the Louis XIV style. A later fashion is, however,
shown in the splendid " Chinese Boudoir " of the latter
part of the seventeenth century from the Stadtholder's
palace at Leeuwarden.
Another room deserving attention is from a small
hunting-lodge called the Hoogerhuis, near Amersfoort,
built about 1630 by Jacob van Kampen and inhabited
by him. The room is lighted by eight small windows,
over which paintings were hung. There is an interesting
bedstead here, ornamented with painted garlands, and
with three compartments, beneath the central one of
which is the Spanish motto, " 'El todo es nada " (Every-
thing is nought).
The Dutch of the seventeenth century passed prac-
tically all their lives at home. With the exception of
merchants, students and men of affairs, people rarely
visited their friends and relatives in neighbouring towns.
As Pieter van Godewijck wrote :—
Het reysen is een taeck nyet yder opgelegt,
En 't is nyet al te veel en sonder blaem gezegt,
Het huys is als een graf, waerin wy altyt wonen,
In 't aerdsche tranendal.
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Another room contains a beautifully painted cylin-
drical ceiling of wood from the apartment of Mary Stuart,
wife of William II, Prince of Orange, also in the Binnen-
hof. The panelling, chimney-piece, gilt leather hangings
and furniture are also of the seventeenth century.
A notable room is that taken from the house of
Constantia Huygens in The Hague, built by Jacob van
Kampen. Blue silk is curiously used to embellish the
panelling. The ceiling, painted by Gerard de Lairesse
(1640-1711) represents Apollo and Aurora. This room
is in the Louis XIV style. A later fashion is, however,
shown in the splendid " Chinese Boudoir " of the latter
part of the seventeenth century from the Stadtholder's
palace at Leeuwarden.
Another room deserving attention is from a small
hunting-lodge called the Hoogerhuis, near Amersfoort,
built about 1630 by Jacob van Kampen and inhabited
by him. The room is lighted by eight small windows,
over which paintings were hung. There is an interesting
bedstead here, ornamented with painted garlands, and
with three compartments, beneath the central one of
which is the Spanish motto, " 'El todo es nada " (Every-
thing is nought).
The Dutch of the seventeenth century passed prac-
tically all their lives at home. With the exception of
merchants, students and men of affairs, people rarely
visited their friends and relatives in neighbouring towns.
As Pieter van Godewijck wrote :—
Het reysen is een taeck nyet yder opgelegt,
En 't is nyet al te veel en sonder blaem gezegt,
Het huys is als een graf, waerin wy altyt wonen,
In 't aerdsche tranendal.
172