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The Musée Charles de Bruyères possesses an ensemble of thirty paintings by Dutch artists of the seventeenth century as well as a canvas by an anonymous master of the early eighteenth. This group of works comprises eighteen oil paintings on wood, ten on canvas, and two on copper.

Seven works from the Musées Nationaux Récupération (which manages artworks plundered during the Second World War) are currently held, of which two are on loan from the Musée de Bar-le-Duc during its refurbishment.

The collection includes artists of the guilds of Haarlem, Middelburg, Dordrecht, The Hague, Rotterdam, Utrecht, and Antwerp, as well as pupils of Rembrandt such as Ferdinand Bol and Nicolaes Maes.

Although the majority of works date from the second half of the seventeenth century, at least eleven are attributable to the first half.

A painting by Edwaert Collier, Still Life with Goblet, acquired in 1994, was stolen on July 4, 1997, and has yet to be recovered. A second stolen painting, attributed to Frans van Daellen, was discovered on the Paris art market in 2023.

The museum also holds three anonymous Flemish paintings of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, a work of the northern school dated 1703, a Holy Family from the studio of Pieter Coecke van Aelst, and a Resurrection by Michiel Coxie.

Aurélien Vacheret, Director of the Museums of Remiremont (April 2025)