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Black-and-white etching: against a dark background, several figures float on large bat-like wings; the man in front grips the handles above his head.

Exhibitions · Museum JAN

Lita Cabellut x Goya at Museum JAN: the story behind Los Disparates

From Wednesday 23 September 2026, Museum JAN in Amstelveen is showing 22 etchings by Goya alongside 22 works by Lita Cabellut. What is this late series that Goya never published himself, and why is a contemporary artist responding to it?

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Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, circa 1665. Mauritshuis, The Hague.

Museum stories

A tronie with a pearl, not a passport

She looks round. The pearl catches the light. A face on canvas need promise no more than that.

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Historical copy of The Night Watch, with guide lines showing the later trimmed format.

Museum stories

The Night Watch is a daytime duty in motion

The name promises night. On the canvas, a captain gives the signal to set off. The light does the rest.

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Van Gogh

The Bedroom: three planes that have to become a room

Two chairs, a bed, a window. And yet it is no tidy floor plan. It is a room that comes forward.

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Utagawa Hiroshige, Plum Garden in Kameido, 1857.

Van Gogh

What he took from Japanese prints differs from sheet to sheet

He cut prints out, copied them and hung them up. One sheet is a flat branch, another a bridge that really does have depth.

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Van Gogh

Behind the sower, ripe corn still stands

In Otterlo a man scatters seed over ploughed land, while behind him the harvest is still standing.

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Van Gogh

When the red drops out of the mix

Purple was red plus blue. When the red disappears, what remains is a different colour from the one he mixed.

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