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LACRIMAE RERVM Gallery

LACRIMAE RERVM

There are tears for things, and what is mortal touches the mind.

Virgil, Aeneid, I, 462: Aeneas in Carthage before the paintings of the Trojan War

Work of the day

Portrait of an Old Man
Vincent van Gogh Portrait of an Old Man, December 1885 Van Gogh Museum, AmsterdamExhibition: The Great Consolation

Terwijl ik hier was – al dien tijd – had ik een kameraad in een ouden Franschman, ik heb zijn portret geschilderd, dat Verlat goed vond. en dat ge zien zult. Voor dien was den winter nog harder dan voor mij en de arme duivel is er heel wat erger aan toe dan ik daar zijn leeftijd het zeer critiek maakt.

While I was here – all that time – I had a comrade in an old Frenchman; I painted his portrait, which Verlat thought good and which you will see. For him the winter was harder still than for me, and the poor devil is a good deal worse off than I am, as his age makes it very critical. To Theo van Gogh, Antwerp, about 22 February 1886 · letter 565

Now on view

The Great ConsolationVincent van GoghPainting · 100 works Rooms and CopenhagenVilhelm HammershøiPainting · 16 works An Enchanted LandWilliam OrpenPainting · 51 works
A new exhibition each month. The date and the name will be revealed with the exhibition.Hanging in progress

All exhibitions

About the Gallery

Lacrimae Rerum is a gallery of painting, works on paper, and photography. The paintings are shown in high-resolution reproductions from museum collections. Each is accompanied by a label on the model of the catalogue raisonné: technique and dimensions, present location, inventory number, number in the artist’s catalogue, and the title in the original language.

Once a month the Gallery opens a new exhibition. Neither the date nor the title is announced beforehand.

The rooms close for the night. Beneath each work is a visitors’ book, in which you may set down your judgement of it.

The Gallery’s principles

Annals

The Gallery was founded in 2008; after a long interval its work resumed in 2026.

  1. 2026

    What Song the Syrens Sang

    Herbert Draper · opened  · 20 works

    Herbert Draper’s exhibition What Song the Syrens Sang has opened: twenty works from 1891 to 1919, paintings and works on paper.

  2. 2026

    An Enchanted Land

    William Orpen · opened  · 51 works

  3. 2026

    Rooms and Copenhagen

    Vilhelm Hammershøi · opened  · 16 works

  4. 2008

    The Great Consolation een groote troost

    Vincent van Gogh · opened  · 100 works

And feeds his mind on an empty picture.

Virgil, Aeneid, I, 464