Musée Oldmasters Museum

One of the flagship institutions of the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Musée Oldmasters Museum was originally founded in 1801 by Napoleon Bonaparte. The museum hosts a rich collection of European paintings spanning the 15th to the 18th centuries, with highlights by early Flemish masters including Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling, Lucas Cranach and Hieronymus Bosch. It is particularly acclaimed for works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the second-largest collection by the artist in the world, which features his famous painting “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.” Holdings from the 17th and 18th centuries include masterworks by Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck and Jacques Jordaens, plus French and Italian figures such as Jusepe de Ribera and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.