Point of view
Exhibition
Did all children used to wear dresses in the 17th century? Why did women have to fight so hard to be able to wear trousers? And what does the size of your desk say about your gender? Ideas about masculinity and femininity shape how we behave and how others perceive us.
The Point of View exhibition shows how ideas around gender are constantly changing over time, and how they have been expressed visually – in the form of an extravagantly decorative dragon-shaped gold toothpick, a Gispen desk, and a portrait of William III, Prince of Orange, wearing a dress. These 150 paintings, prints, drawings, costumes, accessories, sculptures, photographs and items of furniture from the Rijksmuseum colection show that gender is to be found in all things.
With work by artists including Gesina ter Borch, Marlene Dumas, Bartholomeus van der Helst, Kinke Kooi, Robert Mapplethorpe, Erwin Olaf, Maria Roosen, Charley Toorop and Sara Troost.
Thanks
Point of View is made possible in part by Fonds 21 and the Rijksmuseum Club.
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5 July t/m 1 Sep
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Museumstraat 1
1071 XX Amsterdam
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Wheelchair access
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![Pair of mules](https://iiif.micr.io/QLQpk/104,0,7036,3958/1920,1080/0/default.jpg)
![Pair of mules](https://iiif.micr.io/QLQpk/24,0,7196,3958/20,11/0/default.jpg)
Pair of mules, anonymous, c. 1700 - c. 1715
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Gesina ter Borch, Portrait of Moses ter Borch as a Two Year Old, after 1667
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![Onregelmatig golvende plooikraag van linnenbatist, bestaande uit een lange strook die aan een linnen boord is geplooid met een kleine randversiering in stiksteek, gemerkt met kruissteek in rode zijde 'CY'](https://iiif.micr.io/KDAIu/0,0,5178,2912/1920,1080/0/default.jpg)
![Onregelmatig golvende plooikraag van linnenbatist, bestaande uit een lange strook die aan een linnen boord is geplooid met een kleine randversiering in stiksteek, gemerkt met kruissteek in rode zijde 'CY'](https://iiif.micr.io/KDAIu/0,0,5178,2847/20,11/0/default.jpg)
Onregelmatig golvende plooikraag van linnenbatist, bestaande uit een lange strook die aan een linnen boord is geplooid met een kleine randversiering in stiksteek, gemerkt met kruissteek in rode zijde 'CY', anonymous, c. 1615 - c. 1635
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![Groepsportret van zes vrouwen die zijn verkleed in militaire kostuums, met opgeplakte snorren, sigaretten en laarzen](https://iiif.micr.io/QoYVq/220,429,3395,1909/1920,1080/0/default.jpg)
![Groepsportret van zes vrouwen die zijn verkleed in militaire kostuums, met opgeplakte snorren, sigaretten en laarzen](https://iiif.micr.io/QoYVq/220,450,3395,1867/20,11/0/default.jpg)
Groepsportret van zes vrouwen die zijn verkleed in militaire kostuums, met opgeplakte snorren, sigaretten en laarzen, Willem Hendrik Dikkenberg, c. 1897 - c. 1940
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![Those Who Could Walk Did; The Others Fell](https://iiif.micr.io/KvLxN/116,1971,3630,2041/1920,1080/0/default.jpg)
![Those Who Could Walk Did; The Others Fell](https://iiif.micr.io/KvLxN/116,1993,3630,1996/20,11/0/default.jpg)
Those Who Could Walk Did; The Others Fell, Sara Troost, after Cornelis Troost, 1768
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![Jupiter, Disguised as Diana, Seducing the Nymph Callisto](https://iiif.micr.io/Lchyc/0,2155,5186,2917/1920,1080/0/default.jpg)
![Jupiter, Disguised as Diana, Seducing the Nymph Callisto](https://iiif.micr.io/Lchyc/0,2187,5186,2852/20,11/0/default.jpg)
Jupiter, Disguised as Diana, Seducing the Nymph Callisto, Jacob de Wit, 1727
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