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The Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, which opened in 1983, boasts a wide range of Western paintings from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. One of its notable features is a small yet diverse collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings, primarily from the seventeenth century.

Some of the most noteworthy artworks in the museum’s Dutch and Flemish collection include Jan van Goyen’s Riverscape with Fishermen and Salomon van Ruysdael’s The Halt Before the Inn in the landscape genre; Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s Peasant Wedding Feast (a copy of his father’s painting), and Jan Brueghel the Elder’s genre painting Landscape with Farmers Going to a Market; Frans Hals’s Portrait of a Man, Govert Flinck’s A Little Girl with a Puppy in Her Arms, and Anthony van Dyck’s Portrait of Anne Carr, Countess of Bedford; Peter Paul Rubens’ Constantine’s Marriage (a tapestry cartoon), Frans Francken the Younger’s Feast, Gérard de Lairesse’s Abraham Receiving Angels, and Aert de Gelder’s history painting Nathan Admonishes King David.

These Dutch and Flemish paintings constitute a significant part of the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum’s collection.

Toshio Koganemaru, Curator (March 2024)