The right-hand part of this compartment contains mainly works depicting episodes from daily life by Frans Jansz van Mieris the Elder (1635–1681), Gerard (Gerrit) Dou (1613–1675), Pieter de Hooch (1629–1684), one of the most outstanding Dutch genre painters, and other exponents of this type of art. In his work Room in a Dutch House, Pieter Janssens Elinga (1623–1682) depicted a typical domestic interior where the walls are hung with paintings by Small Dutch Masters.
The left-hand part of the compartment presents female portraits by Hendrik Cornelisz van der Vliet (1611/12–1675), typical Dutch seascapes by Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633–1707) and Aelbert Cuyp (Aelbrecht Kuip) (1620–1691). A considerable part of the display is made up of works by the major animal painter and landscapist, including Farm, Wolf-Hound and the especially popular Punishment of a Hunter – a humorous allegory in which the artist combines the legend of St Hubert(us), who gave up hunting and devoted himself to God’s service after seeing a stag with a crucifix in his antlers, with scenes of animals trying and punishing a hunter and the classical myth of the hunter Actaeon punished by the goddess Diana.
