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Museum Mesdag still exists but is known today as the Mesdag Collection. The museum is open to visitors (an entrance fee applies).
The Mesdag Collection, then known as Museum Mesdag, opened in 1887. The gallery was built onto the residence of the artist and collector Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) and his wife, Sientje Mesdag-Van Houten (1834–1909), for the purpose of housing their collection. It was open to the public on Sunday mornings, and Mesdag himself gave visitors tours. Vincent never visited Museum Mesdag while he lived in The Hague, simply because it did not yet exist. He did, however, know of works from the collection, some of which he had seen in the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art. Museum Mesdag can still be visited today. Because Mesdag collected contemporary work, the museum and its collection provide a good survey of the work of Vincent’s generation.
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Teun Berserik en Feico Hoekstra
Vincent van Gogh: de vroege jaren (stripboek)Amsterdam, 2012F. Leeman en J. Sillevis
De Haagse School en de jonge Van GoghZwolle, 2005In de voetsporen van Van Gogh
Wandeling bij De Haagse School en de jonge Van GoghGemeentemuseum Den Haag, 2005Michiel van der Mast en Charles Dumas
Van Gogh en Den HaagZwolle, 1990Jan Meyers
De jonge Vincent: jaren van vervoering en vernederingAmsterdam, 1989
