Musée municipal de Bourg-en-Bresse

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Bourg-en-Bresse Municipal Museum or Brou Museum is a museum founded in 1854. It has been housed in one of the wings of the second of the three cloisters of the Royal Monastery of Brou since 1922. It presents a rich collection of paintings, especially Flemish and French, from the 15th century to modern art. The sculpture is also represented, especially the ancient religious sculpture. The museum's main collection consists of 120 paintings given in the mid-19th century by Thomas Riboud (1765-1835), a lawyer and MP for the Ain who saved the abbey from destruction and protected it as a national monument.

Flemish and Dutch painting: For Flemish and Dutch painting, there are four paintings by the official painter of Emperor Charles Quint, Bernard Van Orley, two of which are portraits of young Charles Quint and Marguerite of Austria, the founder of the monastery of Brou, as well as beautiful anonymouss of the 15th and 16th centuries and works by Jan de Beer, Adrien Ysenbrandt, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Frans Snyders, Frans Franken, Pieter Codde, Adam Frans van der Meulen, Adriaen van der Kabel, Gerard Seghers, Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Pieter Neefs the Younger...