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Musée de Flandre

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In 2010, following a thirteen-year closure, the Musée d’Art, d’Histoire et de Folklore in Cassel, founded in 1853, has reopened its doors under the name “Musée de Flandre.” Since 1964, the museum has occupied the Hôtel de la Noble-Cour, a masterpiece of Flemish architecture, and aims to present the diversity and wealth of Flemish art from the fifteenth century to the present day.

The original collection, comprising some 6,000 objects, has been enhanced by an acquisitions policy focusing on contemporary art and art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Over recent years, a number of old masters have joined the collection, with works by the Master of Frankfurt, Guillaume Kerricx, Roelandt Savery, David Teniers, Joachim Patinir, Simon de Vos, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, and Jan Fyt.

The permanent collection is thematically presented and encourages dialogue between the art of centuries past and contemporary production. It also enables the visitor to discover different types of art object, such as drawings, prints, sculptures, and paintings—among them works by Jan Brueghel (I), Hendrick van Balen, Anthony van Dyck, and Peter Paul Rubens. Since 2022, the permanent collection has been augmented by a long-term loan of twenty paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Valenciennes.

Text by CODART (April 2025)

Related CODART publications

Sandrine Vézilier-Dussart, “Musée de Flandre: A Window on Flemish Art”, CODARTfeatures, January 2022.

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