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The Flemish and Dutch collection of the Musée d’Arts de Nantes comprises some 300 paintings, bringing together some of the greatest artists of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: Jan Brueghel (I), Jacques Fouquier, Gijsbrecht Leytens, Peter Paul Rubens, Govert Flinck, Jürgen Ovens, Pieter Pourbus, Jacob Ferdinand Voet, Joost Cornelisz. Droochsloot, Philips Wouwerman, Pieter Claesz., and Jan Davidsz. de Heem.
This important collection of paintings was assembled mainly in the nineteenth century, thanks in large part to consignments from the French State following the creation of the Musée des Beaux-Arts, but most importantly with the acquisition by the city in 1810 of the collection of François Cacault, who, with his 170-plus Flemish and Dutch paintings, can be considered the principal founder of the Old Master collections.
Adeline Collange-Perugi, Curator (February 2025)
Collection catalogues
Le Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes
Cousseau, Henry-Claude, Béatrice Sarrazin, Claude Allemand-Cosneau and Vincent Rousseau
Paris 1991