Museum Bredius

The collection is remarkable for its seventeenth-century etchings and paintings, but is most attractive to visitors for its accurate restoration of the 18th-century Herenhuis interior with period furnishings.

The decision to move to the present location was made possible with the gift of a generous sponsor to remodel it in the original Louis XV style.

[3] When he moved to Monaco for health reasons in 1922, he believed that the climate was bad for his paintings, and he left them in his old home as a museum, with the promise that they would go to the city on his death.

He was embroiled in many controversial academical battles over various aspects of art history, such as attributions of paintings by Jan Steen and Rembrandt, or the proper way to present and build a museum collection.

He was unable to work together with Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, which is why the Museum Bredius is now totally separate from the RKD, which ironically has its roots in the same building today.

Front of the Museum Bredius overlooking the hofvijver in The Hague .
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 .