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Founded in 1965, the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg has an expansive, encyclopedic collection which includes a small number of paintings, prints, and decorative art objects by Netherlandish artists. This comprises about ten Dutch and Flemish paintings, approximately 45 prints and drawings, and a few decorative art objects. Works by Netherlandish artists were among the first works offered to the museum, and this area of the collection continues to expand through gifts and purchases.

Highlights of the Netherlandish painting collection include Abraham Bloemaert’s Christ and the Samaritan Woman, Jan Brueghel the Younger’s Still Life of Flowers; Frans Floris’s Susanna and the Elders, de Clerck’s Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan, and Paulus Potter’s Jacob at Sichem. The museum’s Netherlandish works on paper include prints by Hendrick Goltzius and Rembrandt van Rijn. Its holdings of decorative arts include a late medieval courtly tapestry from a Flemish workshop and a Baroque tapestry designed by Cornelius Schut.

Stanton Thomas, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions (December 2024)

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