Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels: Picture Gallery, The Masterpieces
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2. BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder
The Census at Bethlehem (detail)
1566
Oil on oak
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
3. BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder
The Census at Bethlehem (detail)
1566
Oil on oak
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
4. BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder
The Census at Bethlehem
1566
Oil on oak, 116 x 164 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts,
Brussels
5. Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Picture Gallery, The Masterpieces
6. BOUTS, Dieric the Elder
Justice of Emperor Otto III: Beheading of
the Innocent Count and Ordeal by Fire
c. 1460
Oil on wood, 324 x 182 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
7. BOUTS, Dieric the Elder
Beheading of the Innocent
c. 1460
Oil on wood, 324 x 182 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
8. BOUTS, Dieric the Elder
Beheading of the Innocent Count (detail)
c. 1460
Oil on wood, 324 x 182 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
9. BOUTS, Dieric the Elder
Beheading of the Innocent Count (detail)
c. 1460
Oil on wood, 324 x 182 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
10. BOUTS, Dieric the Elder
The Ordeal by Fire
c. 1460
Oil on wood, 324 x 182 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
11. BOUTS, Dieric the Elder
The Ordeal by Fire (detail)
c. 1460
Oil on wood
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
12. BOUTS, Dieric the Elder
The Ordeal by Fire (detail)
c. 1460
Oil on wood
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
13. BOUTS, Dieric the Elder
The Ordeal by Fire (detail)
c. 1460
Oil on wood
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
14. BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder
The Fall of the Rebel Angels
1562
Oil on oak, 117 x 162 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
15. BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder
The Fall of the Rebel Angels (detail)
1562
Oil on oak
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
16. BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder
The Fall of the Rebel Angels (detail)
1562
Oil on oak
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
17. BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder
The Fall of the Rebel Angels (detail)
1562
Oil on oak
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
18. BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
c. 1555
Oil on canvas, mounted on wood, 73,5 x 112
cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
19. BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (detail)
c. 1555
Oil on canvas, mounted on wood, 73,5 x 112
cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
20. BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (detail)
c. 1555
Oil on canvas, mounted on wood, 73,5 x 112
cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
44. CRANACH, Lucas the Elder
Venus and Cupid
1531
Oil on canvas, 176 x 80 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
45. CRANACH, Lucas the Elder
Venus and Cupid (detail)
1531
Oil on canvas, 176 x 80 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
46. CRANACH, Lucas the Elder
Venus and Cupid (detail)
1531
Oil on canvas, 176 x 80 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
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Picture Gallery, The Masterpieces
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CRANACH, Lucas the Elder
Venus and Cupid (detail)
1531
Oil on canvas, 176 x 80 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts,
Brussels
48. During the French Revolution, the commissioners appointed in Southern
Netherlands seized art works of every kind. Whilst many of these were taken away
to the Louvre in Paris, some 1,500 items, mainly paintings, considered to be less
valuable, were left in Brussels. Even if there were no masterpieces among them,
they were to form the basis of what is now the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of
Belgium.
The independence of Belgium in 1830 and the accession of Leopold I in 1831
marked the beginning of the Brussels museum's period of glory. In 1842 all the
collections were purchased by the Belgian State; the museum became a national
institution with a very active purchasing policy.
49. The Museum of Ancient Art collections consist mainly of paintings, drawings and
sculptures, but also include an attractive ensemble of tapestries and objets d'art
from the 14th to 18th centuries. Whilst a national museum's role is first and
foremost to exhibit works from its own country, the collections have, from the
start, included artwork from foreign schools.
In the 19th century the museum invested extensively in paintings from the
flamboyant Dutch Golden age, so that, in addition to the Flemish school, the
Dutch art is particularly well represented.