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Essdras M Suarez/Globe StaffA 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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Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle/File 2011Eijk 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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Essdras M Suarez/Globe StaffMFA 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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Museum of Fine Arts"Sleeping Dog" by Gerrit Dou, 1650
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Essdras M Suarez/Globe StaffAaron 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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Essdras M Suarez/Globe StaffMFA 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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Museum of Fine Arts"Wooded River Landscape with Shepherd" by Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael, about 1655-60
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Jon Chase for the Boston GlobeRose-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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Dina Rudick/Globe StaffA detail from a cupboard "Two figures Dutch" from the van Otterloo furniture collection at their Marblehead home in 2011.
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Dina Rudick/Globe StaffMarblehead 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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Museum of Fine Arts"Winter Landscape near a Village" by Hendrick Avercamp, about 1610-15, part of the van Otterloo collection.