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Van Otterloo Collection at the MFA has eye-popping Dutch art

By Sebastian Smee

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 15, 2012

Over the past couple of years, the best collection of 17th-century Dutch paintings in private hands has been on tour in the Netherlands and the United States (including at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem). Now a selection of 44 works from this collection has been put on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, in a show called “Complementary Collections, Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo and the MFA.”

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