Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK)
The museum's collection consists of some 9000 artworks, dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Over 600 works can be found on display permanently, with the collection largely focusing on Flemish Art (Southern Netherlands). It also houses several European—especially French—paintings, in addition to a large amount of sculptures.
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Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK)
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- Founded
- 1798.
- Headquarters
- Belgium.
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The museum's collection consists of some 9000 artworks, dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Over 600 works can be found on display permanently, with the collection largely focusing on Flemish Art (Southern Netherlands). It also houses several European—especially French—paintings, in addition to a large amount of sculptures.
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1798
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) established.
1798
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) is recorded from 1798.
Paintings
Next to its permanent collection the museum organises temporary exhibitions. Between March 2011 and January 2021, the museum conducted 41 exhibitions. The building was designed by city architect Charles van Rysselberghe around 1900. In 2007 the museum reopened after four years of restoration. The museum is a member of The Flemish Art Collection. This is a structural partnership joining the three main museums of fine arts in Flanders: Royal Museum of Fine Arts, the Groeninge Museum in Bruges and the Ghent Museum of Fine Arts. The museums’ collections have all been developed in a similar way and complement each other perfectly. Together, they offer a unique, representative overview of Flemish art from the 15th to the 20th century. In 2025, the museum and the city of Ghent rejected a claim for restitution from the heirs of Samuel Hartveld for a painting by Gaspar de Craye, Portrait of Bishop Triest, (ca. Until May 31 2026, the museum hosted a ground-breaking exhibition restoring and showcasing over 150 works exclusively by female artists, of which there were over 40. Figures such as Clara Peeters, Rachel Ruysch and Judith Leyster emerged as commercially successful and critically admired in their time.
Source: MSK Josse Sébastien van den Abeele - Self Portrait (19th century) MSK Abraham van Beijeren - Still Life with Fish (1666) MSK Frits Van den Berghe - The Singing Statue (1928) MSK Pieter de Bloot - Landscape with a Farmhouse (c.1645) MSK Jan Boeckhorst - Apollo and Python (17th century) MSK Hieronymus Bosch - St. Jerome at Prayer (c.1485) MSK Anna Boch - Cliffs on the Coast of Sanary (1936) MSK Hieronymus Bosch - Christ Carrying the Cross (c.1510) MSK Ferdinand De Braekeleer the Elder - The Bat (1860) MSK Jan de Bray - Portrait of a Young Woman (c.1665) MSK Pieter Brueghel the Younger - Wedding Dance in the Open Air (17th century) MSK Emile Claus - The Skaters (1891) MSK Gaspar de Crayer - The Judgement of Solomon (c.1620) MSK Paul Delvaux - The Staircase (1946) MSK Gustave Den Duyts - Panoramic View of Ghent (c.1881) MSK Anthony van Dyck - Jupiter and Antiope (c.1620) MSK Henri Evenepoel - The Spaniard in Paris /Portrait of the Painter Francisco Iturrino (1899) MSK James Ensor - Children at their Morning Toilet (1886) MSK Léon Frédéric - The Funeral Meal (1886) MSK Heinrich Funk - Landscape at Dusk in Tyrol (1847) MSK Théodore Géricault - Portrait of a Kleptomaniac (c.1820) MSK' Jan Pauwel Gillemans the Elder - Still Life with Vegetables and Fruits MSK James Guthrie - Schoolmates (1884) MSK Cornelis de Heem - Still Life with Flowers and Fruits (1670) MSK Maarten van Heemskerck - Man of Sorrows (1532) MSK Maarten van Heemskerck - Calvary (1543) MSK Jacob Jordaens - The Judgement of Midas (17th century) MSK Fernand Khnopff - Incense (1898) MSK Urbanus Leyniers - The Glorification of Apollo (1717) MSK Léon Augustin Lhermitte - The Grandmother (1880) MSK Nicolaes Maes - Portrait of a Woman (1663) MSK Alessandro Magnasco Praying Monks (18th century) MSK René Magritte - Perspective II, Manet's Balcony (1950) MSK Harrington Mann - Kathleen (1906) MSK Adolf Meckel von Hemsbach - The St Catherine Monastery in the Sinai (19th century) MSK Paula Modersohn-Becker - Girl in a Birch Forest (1903) MSK Jenny Montigny - The Gardener (20th Century) MSK Joseph Paelinck - The Beautiful Anthia Leading her Companions into the Temple of Diana in Ephesus (1820) MSK Fanny Paelinck-Horgnies - The Saint Cecilia (1829) MSK Constant Permeke - Ostend Harbour (c.1913) MSK Nicolas de Plattemontagne - Portrait of a Young Man (17th century) MSK Ramah - The Painter (1922) MSK Hubert van Ravesteyn - Still Life with a Pipe, Nuts, a Pitcher and a Tobacco Pouch (1670) MSK Petrus Johannes van Reysschoot - The Meet (1743) MSK Peter Paul Rubens - The Flagellation of Christ (1617) MSK Peter Paul Rubens - Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (c.1633) MSK Théo van Rysselberghe - The Lecture by Emile Verhaeren, 1903 (1903) MSK Theodoor Rombouts - Allegory of the Five Senses (1632) MSK Theodoor Rombouts - Allegory of the Second Bench of Aldermen of ‘Gedele’ (c.1627) MSK Hugo Salmson - Visiting the Tenant Farmer (19th century) MSK Gustave De Smet - The Good House (1926) MSK Leon De Smet - Interior or A Loving Couple (1911) MSK Léon Spilliaert - Silhouette of the Artist (1907) MSK Léon Spilliaert - The Second of November (Interior) (1908) MSK Alfred Stevens - Mary-Magdalene (1887) MSK Tintoretto - Portrait of Giovanni Paolo Cornaro (1561) MSK Prosper de Troyer - With the Birds (1928) MSK Edgard Tytgat - Invitation to Paradise (1922) MSK Edgard Tytgat - The Last Doll (1923) MSK Edgard Tytgat - Four Nude Girls in a Boat (1950) MSK Lodewijk de Vadder - The Soignes Forest with Market Vendors (17th century) MSK Frans Verhas - The Lion (1874) MSK Pierre Joseph Verhaghen - The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (1767) MSK Cornelis de Vos - Family Portrait (1630) MSK Anna De Weert - My Studio in June, 1909-1910 (1909–10) MSK Liévin De Winne - Portrait of the Sculptor Paul De Vigne (19th century) MSK Gustave Van de Woestyne - Still Life (c.1922) MSK Carel Willink Het evenwicht der krachten Equilibrium of forces (1963) Anders Zorn - With Mother (1895) MSK Puccio di Simone - Coronation of Virgin (c.1350) MSK
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- 1.Een greep uit de collectie | MSK Gent.
- 2.Een greep uit de collectie | MSK Gent.
- 3.| MSK Gent.
- 4.Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent.
- 5.Ghent museum refuses return of Nazi-looted painting. dw.com.
- 6.Solomon, Tessa. MSK Ghent Declines to Return Nazi-Looted Painting, Citing Past Compensation. ARTnews.com. 2025-11-24.
- 7.The Brussels Times, Kurt Karlsson. Art and events in Brussels and beyond. www.brusselstimes.com.
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