On display in the right-hand part of this compartment are chiefly scenes of daily life by eminent masters of genre paintings. Gerard Terborch (1617–1681), the creator of Rural Postman, Messenger and Glass of Lemonade is also represented by his Portrait of Catarina van Leunink. Jan Steen (1625/26–1679), whose works such as Doctor’s Visit and Idlers, in which the artist depicted himself and his wife, are quite often tinged with good-natured humour, also produced Esther before Ahasuerus on a biblical subject. The Gospel parable inspired The Prodigal Son by Gabriel Metsu (1629–1667) that demonstrates unbridled vice.
Landscapes predominate in the left-hand part of the compartment. Typical Dutch outdoor views were recorded by Jan van Goyen (1596–1656) in the works Skaters, Landscape with a Peasant Cottage and Shore in Egmond aan Zee, by Isaak van Ostade (1621–1649) in his painting Winter Scene, and by Aert van der Neer (1603/04–1677), who painted Landscape with a Windmill, Night Landscape and Night Landscape with a River.
Breakfast with Ham and Still Life with Clay Pipes are by the famed master of the still life Pieter Claesz (1597–1661).
In his Portrait of a Woman in the Guise of Granida, Paulus Moreelse (1571–1638) depicted his model as the heroine of a popular play of the same name by Pieter Cornelisz Hooft.
