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The Museu Nacional de Belas Artes (MNBA) preserves 65 paintings, as well as engravings and drawings, by Dutch and Flemish artists, representing art from the sixteenth century to the present day. The collection includes approximately 45 paintings from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, by artists such as Gerard Terborch, Jan van Kessel, Abraham Brueghel, and Jan Frans van Bloemen. These include landscapes, historical and genre scenes, still lifes, landscapes with animals, and portraits, acquired through purchases and donations. The Foreign Print Collection features seventeenth century masters such as Cornelis de Visscher, Rembrandt, and Anthony van Dyck. Among the highlights of MNBA’s collection are the works by Frans Post. His eight paintings and two metal engravings have helped scholars to reconstruct part of Brazilian colonial history.
Anna Paola Pacheco Baptista and Cintya dos Santos Callado, Art Historians (September 2025)
Collection catalogues
Museu Nacional de Belas Artes and its collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings
Paternostro, Zuzana
Rio de Janeiro 2002