The Masterpieces: Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

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

21. CHRISTUS, Petrus
The Lamentation
1455-60
Oil on wood, 98 x 188 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

22. CHRISTUS, Petrus
The Lamentation (detail)
1455-60
Oil on wood, 98 x 188 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

23. CHRISTUS, Petrus
The Lamentation (detail)
1455-60
Oil on wood, 98 x 188 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

24. MASTER of Flémalle
Annunciation
1420s
Tempera on oak, 61 x 63,7 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

25. MASTER of Flémalle
Annunciation (detail)
1420s
Tempera on wood
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

26. WEYDEN, Rogier van der
Pietà
c. 1441
Wood, 32,2 x 47,2 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

27. WEYDEN, Rogier van der
Pietà (detail)
c. 1441
Wood, 32,2 x 47,2 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

28. MASSYS, Quentin
St Anne Altarpiece
1507-08
Oil on wood, 224,5 x 219 cm (centre), 220 x
92 cm (each wing)
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

29. MASSYS, Quentin
St Anne Altarpiece (central panel)
1507-08
Oil on wood, 224,5 x 219 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

30. MASSYS, Quentin
St Anne Altarpiece (detail)
1507-08
Oil on wood
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

31. MASSYS, Quentin
St Anne Altarpiece (right wing)
1507-08
Oil on wood
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

32. MASSYS, Quentin
St Anne Altarpiece (right wing, detail)
1507-08
Oil on wood
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

33. MASSYS, Quentin
St Anne Altarpiece (left wing)
1507-08
Oil on wood, 224,5 x 219 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

34. MASSYS, Quentin
St Anne Altarpiece (left wing)
1507-08
Oil on wood, 224,5 x 219 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

35. MASSYS, Quentin
St Anne Altarpiece (left wing)
1507-08
Oil on wood, 224,5 x 219 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

36. RUBENS, Peter Paul
The Martyrdom of St Livinus
1633
Oil on canvas, 455 x 347 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

37. RUBENS, Peter Paul
The Martyrdom of St Livinus (detail)
1633
Oil on canvas, 455 x 347 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

38. RUBENS, Peter Paul
The Martyrdom of St Livinus (detail)
1633
Oil on canvas, 455 x 347 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

39. WEYDEN, Rogier van der
Portrait of Antony of Burgundy
c. 1461
Oak, 38,4 x 28 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

40. WEYDEN, Rogier van der
Portrait of Antony of Burgundy (detail)
c. 1461
Oak
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

41. DAVID, Jacques-Louis
The Death of Marat
1793
Oil on canvas, 162 x 128 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

42. DAVID, Jacques-Louis
The Death of Marat (detail)
1793
Oil on canvas, 162 x 128 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

43. DAVID, Jacques-Louis
The Death of Marat (detail)
1793
Oil on canvas
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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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.