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The works of Netherlandish masters are inseparable from the art collections of Galician aristocratic families—including the Lubomirskis, Pinińskis, Dąbskis, and Cetners, among many others—which formed the bedrock of the Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery’s collection.
The Gallery’s collection offers an excellent overview of Delftware faience and porcelain, as well as the defining movements, genres, and schools of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century painting. These include masterpieces by the ‘Great and Little’ Dutch masters and prominent Flemish painters: exquisite still lifes by Jan Jansz van de Velde, Alexander Adriaenssen, and Jan van Kessel; humorous genre scenes by Bartholomeus Molenaer; picturesque landscapes by Salomon Rombouts and Meindert Hobbema; and mythological compositions by Jan Boeckhorst and Jacob de Backer. Outstanding examples of New Testament subjects are of particular importance, including the triptych The Adoration of the Magi by the workshop of Pieter Coecke van Aelst and The Visitation of Mary and Elizabeth by Jan van Scorel.
The companion paintings Woman with a Guitar and Man with a Viola da Gamba by the brilliant Utrecht Caravaggist Gerrit van Honthorst grace the concert hall of the Potocki Palace. Meanwhile, iconic works such as Storm at Sea by Pieter van der Croos and Pieter Mulier (called Tempesta), Allegory of Vanity of Vanities by Monogrammist ‘G.C.’, and Flowers by the workshop of Jan Brueghel adorn the rooms of the palace’s permanent exhibition.
Olena Tkachenko, Head of the Department of Scientific Cooperation, Fundraising, and Promotion (June 2026)