During a two-week trip to the Netherlands in spring 1928, the Barcelona-born modern painter Joan Miró (1893–1983) purchased picture postcard souvenirs from the museums he visited. The color reproductions of two 17th-century Dutch genre paintings particularly caught his attention and served as the inspiration for a series of original paintings he created that summer. The traveling exhibition Miró: the Dutch interiors, which opens at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning October 5, features Miró's three "Dutch Interiors" and the two old master paintings on which they are based. The New York venue will also show an additional painting by Miró in the Metropolitan's collection — The Potato — that resulted from the same trip. This juxtaposition of early 20th-century avant-garde art with paintings from the Dutch golden age marks the first time that these canvases by Miró are displayed alongside the Dutch scenes that inspired them.