Brazil through the eyes of Europeans
Composed of close to three hundred paintings, water colors, drawings and prints on Brazilian themes, the Coleção Brasiliana
is the result of forty years of accumulation by the French antique collector, Jacques Kugel (Minsk, 1912 - Paris, 1985).
Traveling European artists who passed through Brazil in the nineteenth century authored the large majority of the works.
In 1996, the Rank-Packard Foundation, an English non-profit institution, acquired the collection.
The following year, it arrived in Brazil under the responsibility of Fundação Estudar, which has added other pieces to
the original collection, as well as executing a thorough job of conservation, cataloging, research and exposition.
In 2002, the Coleção Brasiliana was definitively donated to Fundação Estudar and incorporated into Brazilian cultural patrimony,
recognizing its artistic and historical relevance.
To see the programming of the exposition of the Coleção Brasiliana's works, click www.cbfe.org.br.
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