Musée Oldmasters Museum

Brussels | Belgium
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Founded by Napoleon Bonaparte, the museum features celebrated Renaissance and Baroque painters

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Musée Oldmasters Museum, Musées Royaux Des Beaux-Arts de Belgique

  • Interior View, Musée Oldmasters Museum, Musées Royaux Des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
    Musée Oldmasters Museum, Musées Royaux Des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
  • Exterior View, Musée Fin-de-Siècle Museum, Musées Royaux Des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
  • Musée Oldmasters Museum, Musées Royaux Des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
    Interior View, Musée Oldmasters Museum, Musées Royaux Des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
  • Musée Oldmasters Museum, Musées Royaux Des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
    Interior View, Musée Oldmasters Museum, Musées Royaux Des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
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One of the flagship institutions of the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Musée Oldmasters Museum was originally founded in 1801 by Napoleon Bonaparte and boasts a rich collection of European painting spanning the 15th to the 18th centuries. Highlights include early Flemish masterpieces by Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling, Hieronymus Bosch, Lucas Cranach and Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Holdings from the 17th and 18th centuries include works by Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck and Jacques Jordaens, and French and Italian figures such as Jusepe de Ribera and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

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Collection Highlights

  • Sir Peter Paul Rubens
    The Road to Calvary
  • Pieter I Bruegel
    The Fall of the Rebel Angels, 1562
  • Quinten Metsys
    Virgin and Child
  • Hans Memling
    The Martyrdom of St Sebastian, c.1475
  • Rogier van der Weyden
    Pietà, c.1441

Collection Highlights

  • Sir Peter Paul Rubens
    The Road to Calvary
    oil on canvas
    Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, inv. 163 © RMFAB, Brussels / Photo: J. Geleyns - Ro Scan
  • Pieter I Bruegel
    The Fall of the Rebel Angels, 1562
    Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, inv. 584 © RMFAB, Brussels / Photo: Grafisch Buro Lefevre, Heule
  • Quinten Metsys
    Virgin and Child
    Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, inv. 1497 © RMFAB, Brussels / Photo: J. Geleyns - Ro Scan
  • Hans Memling
    The Martyrdom of St Sebastian, c.1475
    Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, inv. 2927 © RMFAB, Brussels / Photo: J. Geleyns - Ro Scan
  • Rogier van der Weyden
    Pietà, c.1441
    Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, inv. 3515 © RMFAB, Brussels / Photo: J. Geleyns - Ro Scan
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