Antwerp - Museum Mayer van den Bergh

In the course of only a short period during the 1890s, a connoisseur of the fine arts, Fritz Mayer van den Burgh, assembled a remarkable collection of more than 3,000 items. These are now displayed on four floors of a Neo-Gothic house at Lange Gasthuisstraat 19. The collection includes some superlative works of art, among them paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ("Dulle Griet" and the earliest of the artist's signed works "The Twelve Proverbs", both in Room 26), Rubens, Jordaens, Bouts, van der Weyden, van Ostade, Lucas Cranach and Quentin Massys. Also of great interest are the Flemish and French religious statues, the outstanding collection of ivories, and a unique 16th C. Flemish breviary, and in Room 14, a polychrome group "Christ