Events at
Saint-Paul

This year, 2025, is marked in Liège by a double anniversary: the 350th anniversary of the death of Bertholet Flémal, one of the greatest painters the Principality of Liège has ever produced, and the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Institut archéologique liégeois, the oldest historical and archaeological society in the province of Liège. Against this backdrop, the Liège Cathedral Treasury, in partnership with the Institute, is organising a retrospective devoted to Bertholet Flémal (1614-1675).

Starting with the two largest collections of paintings by this artist, this exhibition will be presented as a sort of internal confrontation of his painted work with, on the one hand, the religious paintings conserved at Liège Cathedral and, on the other, the mainly secular paintings from a major private collection in the Liège region. Through these high-quality canvases, visitors will be able to discover the protean nature of the art of the man whom the German painter Joachim von Sandrart - who seems to have met him in Rome - nicknamed the ‘Raphael of the Low Countries’, paying tribute to the classicist accent of his paintings, which were a far cry from the Rubenesque production that dominated the Southern Low Countries at the time.

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