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The Regional Museum of Rzeszów has a collection of European paintings on permanent display, known as the Dąmbski Gallery. It consists of 163 paintings from the Italian, French, Flemish, Dutch, Austrian and German schools, as well as copies of work by leading masters of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 

Venus with Cupids by Frans Floris (1516–1570) exemplifies the Flemish artworks at the Rzeszów Regional Museum. The collection also features several paintings by Abraham van Diepenbeeck (1596–1675), including Pieta, Our Lady of Sorrows, and The Hunt of Atalanta and Meleager, as well as Landscape From Around Brabant by Jacques d’Arthois (1613–1683). It also contains Apelles Painting Campaspe, a painting by an unidentified Flemish artist who was active in the mid-seventeenth century, and several copies of paintings by Peter Paul Rubens, including Head of a Knight, Garden of Love, and Amor With a Guitar. 

Italianate landscapes such as those by Pieter van Laer (1599–1642) and Jan Asselyn (1610–1652) predominate among the Dutch paintings at the Dąmbski Gallery. The Triumph of Galatea by Cornelis van Poelenburgh (1586–1667) and Amphitrite With Tritons by Jan Philipp van der Schlichten (1681–1745) are two examples of mythical themes displayed in the museum. Also noteworthy is a battle themed painting by Philips Wouwermans (1619–1668), entitled The Crossing of the River by Troops.

Dorota Rucka-Marmaj, Curator in the Art Department (July 2024)