page_title: Museum Bredius
section_title: Paintings
hierarchical_section_title: Museum Bredius / Paintings
context_page_description: Museum Bredius is a museum named after Abraham Bredius on the Lange Vijverberg in The Hague. It is remarkable for its collection of etchings and paintings, but is most attractive to visitors for its accurate restoration of the 18th-century Herenhuis interior with period furnishings.
context_section_description: The collection is represented by over 150 artists, with illustrious names such as Albert Cuyp, Anthony van Dyck, Melchior de Hondecoeter, Adriaen van Ostade, Quiringh van Brekelenkam, and Rembrandt. Bredius only kept pieces which were of academic interest in the art history field, such as the only known landscape example by the seascape painter Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen, or a mutilated piece that was originally a biblical scene by Jan Steen of the marriage of Tobias and Sarah, that had been cut down into two genre pieces in the 19th century and sold separately. He donated more than 46 paintings he attributed himself to the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. He tended to only keep the masterpieces, which were the first known work by many artists when they were accepted as a master into a local Guild of St. Luke.
caption: Tobias and Sarah in Prayer with the Angel Raphael and the Demon, painting restored in 1996 by rejoining Bredius's angel half with the marriage bed half formerly owned by the Jewish refugee Jacques Goudstikker. It was the subject of a dispute about nazi plunder.
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