Small Treasures: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals, and Their Contemporaries will go on view at Alabama's Birmingham Museum of Art in Spring 2015. The exhibition, organized by the North Carolina Museum of Art and sponsored by PNC, will be on view from January 30 - April 26, 2015, and will feature works by the greatest masters of the Dutch and Flemish Golden Age.

Small Treasures brings together 40 small-scale oil paintings, most of which are no more than ten inches in height, by 28 artists of the 17th century. The exhibition will, for the first time, explore this little known field and show the extraordinary richness of this genre of work.

"We are so pleased to bring these marvelous paintings to the Southeast. Small Treasures will offer our visitors the chance to carefully admire striking detail by some of the most highly regarded artists of all time," says Gail Andrews, Director of the BMA.

More than half of the works in the exhibition are drawn from private collections, some being on public view for the first time.