This hall gets its name from its tent-like two-pitched roof with exposed rafters that is decorated with rectangular coffers and ornamental painting. The hall is used to display 17th-century Dutch paintings, predominantly works by “Small Dutch Masters”, who produced art to adorn the compact rooms of Dutch burghers’ houses. All the genres in which Dutch artists worked are presented here.
Partitions divide the hall into compartments. Beginning from the end by Hall 250, both parts of the first compartment contain works by Jacob Isaaksz van Ruisdael (1628/29–1682), one of the finest landscape painters in the whole of European art. Among his best works is Marsh.
In the right-hand part of the compartment Dessert is a typical example of the work of the master of the still life Willem Kalf (1619–1693), while Dairy Maid is by the major landscape and animal painter Aelbert Cuyp (Aelbrecht Kuip) (1620–1691).
In the left-hand part of the compartment, there are landscapes by Nicolaes (Claes) Pietersz Berchem (1620–1683) and Allart van Everdingen (1621–1675), as well as works by Adriaen van de Velde (1636–1672) and other well-known artists.
