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A visitor to the Museum of Fine Arts examined three pieces on display that are part of the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo collection. Seventeen of their pieces are in the Dutch and Flemish galleries at the MFA.

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Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, shown in 2011 at the Legion of Honor exhibit in San Francisco, have arguably the world’s greatest private collection of the 17th century Dutch and Flemish art.

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MFA visitors walked by Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder's "Still Life with Rose in a Glass," which is part of the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo collection.

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"Sleeping Dog" by Gerrit Dou, 1650

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Aaron Luckman, a MFA stitching design preparator, took a measurement on May 2, 2013, while installing a label by Rembrandt's Portrait of Aeltje Uylenburgh.

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MFA facilities personnel Joe Morgan, left, and Thomas Conlon, put up a small barrier in front of the "Orpheous Charming the Animals" painting by Aelbert Cuyp.

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"Wooded River Landscape with Shepherd" by Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael, about 1655-60

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Rose-Marie van Otterloo at her home in Marblehead with one the paintings from their collection, “Portrait of a young woman holding a fan” by Jacob Adriaensz Backer.

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A detail from a cupboard "Two figures Dutch" from the van Otterloo furniture collection at their Marblehead home in 2011.

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Marblehead resident Rose-Marie van Otterloo and Peabody Essex Museum conservators packed up pieces of 400-year-old Dutch furniture that will appear in an exhibition of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art in 2011.

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"Winter Landscape near a Village" by Hendrick Avercamp, about 1610-15, part of the van Otterloo collection.