Sara Rothé

Sara Rothé (1699–1751) was an 18th-century art collector from the Dutch Republic, known today as the former owner of two dollhouses now on display in the Frans Hals Museum and the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.

Sara Rothé was a dollhouse owner who spent most of her time on decorating and showing her cabinet.

Today part of the dollhouse and some of the furnishings can be traced back to Cornelia van der Gon.

[1] Though she, her husband, and two visitors were with her in the coach at the time, and two trekschuits came quickly to the rescue, she drowned because it was too difficult to pull her out.

Though Sara and her husband were not considered members of the top elite, they were quite wealthy, as evidenced from the fact that their home in Haarlem was sold in 1761 to Albertus Hodshon, the father of the wealthy Cornelia Hodson, who later built the building housing the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen today.