Gallery
Portrait of Catherine Brüls née Vincent - 1832
Oil on canvas · portrait at age 31; last recorded with M. Du Frasne, Liège; present location unknown
Portrait of Jean-Joseph Brüls - 1832
Oil on canvas · portrait at age 40; last recorded with M. Du Frasne, Liège; present location unknown
Portrait of Marie-Christine Brüls née Peltzer - 1832
Oil on canvas · last recorded with Bernd Meyerhoff, Schloss Brüls (per genealogical report, 2002); present location unknown
Portrait of Pierre-Joseph Brüls - 1832
Oil on canvas · last recorded with Bernd Meyerhoff, Schloss Brüls (per genealogical report, 2002); present location unknown
Femmes Italiennes en Conversation - Louis Brüls - 1836
Oil on canvas, 98.5 × 81.5 cm · Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels (inv. 1719)Credit: Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique.
Der Segensspruch - Louis Brüls - circa 1837-1838
Oil on canvas, 32 × 36.5 cm · Bavarian royal collection, Neue Pinakothek, Munich · destroyed during the Allied bombing of Munich in 1944
The Ecstasy of St. Cecilia after Raphael - Louis Brüls - 1840
Oil on canvas, after Raphael · église Saint-Denis, LiègeCredit: Jean Housen/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Blessing of Richard the Lionheart - Louis Brüls - 1840
Oil on canvas, c. 137 × 101 cm · private collection Grimaldi, Cádiz
The Knights Farewell - Louis Brüls - 1840
Oil on canvas, c. 73.5 × 60.5 cm · Private collection
The Knights Return - Louis Brüls - 1841
Oil on canvas, c. 74 × 61.5 cm · Private collection
The Baptism - Louis Brüls - 1843
Oil on canvas, 121 × 83 cm · Private collection (sold at auction)
Fra Bartolommeo - Louis Brüls - 1845
Oil on canvas, after Fra Bartolommeo, 114 × 162 cm · église Saint-Denis, LiègePhoto: KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B153694.
Portrait of Cornelis Kruseman - Louis Brüls - 1845
Oil on canvas · The Hague, Cornelis Kruseman · J.M.C. Ising Stichting (c. 1843–47)Credit: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Sleeping Baby - Louis Brüls - 1847
Oil on canvas, 45 × 37 cm · also titled Woman with Baby in Cradle; recorded with Galerie Gabriëls, The Hague, and at Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen as La toilette de la jeune mère, costume de Cerbara (de Meester de Ravestein bequest, 1888)
L'enfant malade - Louis Brüls - 1848
Oil on canvas · Brussels Salon of 1848 (vermeil medal) · scene set in an underground church in Tuscany
Portrait of Isabelle Adelaide Const Fonteyne - Louis Brüls - 1849
Oil on canvasPhoto/source: RKD · Netherlands Institute for Art History.
Catherine Vincent - Louis Brüls - 1850
Oil on canvas · last recorded with Bernd Meyerhoff, Schloss Brüls (per genealogical report, 2002); present location unknown
Station of the Cross - Louis Brüls - 1850
Oil on canvas, c. 114 × 72 cm · Sint-Lambertuskerk, Kerkrade (14-station cycle, 1850–53)Credit: Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Portrait of Hortense Josephine Constance Beyen - Louis Brüls - 1850
Oil on canvasPhoto/source: RKD · Netherlands Institute for Art History.
Sérénade sur terrasse - Louis Brüls - 1852
Oil on canvasPhoto/source: RKD · Netherlands Institute for Art History.
Interior with a woman and a little boy - Louis Brüls - 1856
Oil on canvasPhoto/source: RKD · Netherlands Institute for Art History.
The Immaculate Conception - Louis Brüls - 1857
Oil on canvas, c. 145 × 110 cm · Sint-Lambertuskerk, Kerkrade (left side altar)Credit: Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Idle Moments - Louis Brüls - 1857
Oil on canvas, 100.5 × 121 cm · Private collection (sold at auction)
Moeder en twee kinderen voeren de kippen - Louis Brüls - 1859
Oil on canvas, 46.5 × 37.5 cm · Private collection (sold at auction)
Preparing for her First Communion - Louis Brüls - 1859
Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1859, 73 × 61 cmSource: RKD documentation / Sotheby’s sale record.
Portrait of Emile de Meester de Ravestein - Louis Brüls - 1859
Oil on canvas, painted in Rome · detail reproduced in Bruno Indekeu, BGSJVR, vol. 2 (2017), p. 47 · present location unconfirmed
St. Joseph with the Christ Child - Louis Brüls - 1860
Oil on canvas, oval, c. 145 × 109 cm · Sint-Lambertuskerk, Kerkrade (right side altar)Credit: Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Portrait of Cardinal Antonelli - Louis Brüls - 1861
Oil on canvas, 116 × 94 cm · Hof van Busleyden, MechelenCredit: Collectie Stedelijke Musea Mechelen / Museum Hof van Busleyden.
The Remorse of the Vendetta - Louis Brüls - 1861
Oil on canvas, 100 × 137 cm · Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen (de Meester de Ravestein bequest, 1888)
Cueilleuse de raisins avant l'orage - Louis Brüls - 1864
Oil on canvas · Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen (de Meester de Ravestein bequest, 1888) · also known as A Young Girl Frightened by the Storm
Berger sur fond de paysage - Louis Brüls - 1864
Oil on canvas, c. 42 × 33 cm · private collection (sold at auction, 1864) · also known as Herder tegen een landschap
Portrait of Pius IX - Louis Brüls - 1864
Oil painting formerly in the Comtesse de Meeus collection; photographed by FierlantsModern photo after the KBR print record, S.II 30473.
Fanciullo addormentato e cane - Louis Brüls - 1865
Oil on canvas, 46 × 61 cm · Museo Colocci, JesiSource: Regione Marche / SchedeOA:AN, ICCD 1100209621.
Italienische Landfrau mit Kind und Ziege - Louis Brüls - 1865
Oil on canvas · recorded in Munich / Neue Pinakothek
The Worship of the Holy Mother in the Church - Louis Brüls - 1867
Oil on canvas, 115 × 84 cm · private collection (sold Carlo Bonte, 2020)
La Pèlerine du Ponte Molle - Louis Brüls - 1870
Oil on canvasCredit: private collection, artist’s family, Brussels.
Donna che fa l'elemosina - Louis Brüls - 1871
Oil on canvas, c. 122 × 102 cm · Private collection · Giving Alms, exhibited 1876 as Charity
Woman with Two Children - Louis Brüls - 1871
Oil on canvas, 62.4 × 49.4 cm · Boston Athenaeum (inv. UR105)
Sortie de l’église - Louis Brüls - c. 1850–1870
Oil on canvas · Musée des Beaux-Arts de LiègeDocumented works
Works recorded in 19th-century exhibition and sale catalogues and in the family inventories of Jacques Dufrasne and the Hucklenbroich dossier. They are listed here for completeness; where a location is given, it is the last one documented.
Religious and history paintings
- Bénédiction des étendards pour la Terre Sainte (Blessing of the Crusaders' banners) · exhibited at the Salon de Bruxelles, 1840.
- Stations of the Cross · Sint-Matthiaskerk (St Matthew), Maastricht; a second cycle, undated.
- Procession dans une église · Rome · sold at the Dr Lejeune sale, Liège, c. 1943.
- Tête de Vierge (Head of the Virgin) · church of Kerkrade.
Roman genre subjects
- Doge Dandolo, 1846 · exhibited at the Società degli Amatori e Cultori, Rome.
- Lavatoio di Palestrina (The wash-house at Palestrina), 1847 · Rome.
- Prise de voile d'une jeune fille (Taking of the veil), Florence, 1843.
- Famille de paysans de la Cervara romana (Peasant family of Cervara), 1853.
- Petit vagabond / Betteljungen (Beggar boys), 1856.
- Pauvre femme avec son enfant dans une église (Poor woman with her child in a church), 1856.
- Mère avec son enfant pleurant (Mother with her weeping child), 1857.
- Vieillard récitant le rosaire (Old man reciting the rosary), 1857.
- Fabiola, 1864 · his last documented exhibit, Società degli Amatori e Cultori, Rome.
Portraits and family works
- Portrait of Pierre Rutten (the painter's nephew) and Portrait of Mme Pierre Rutten, née Brüls · Legrand collection, Louvain.
- Tête de Constance Rutten-Brüls, as a child · private collection, Germany.
- Saint Sébastien en armure and La Lettre · Hucklenbroich family.
- Étude de Vierge (Study of the Virgin) · Rutten-Goossens collection, Netherlands.
Recorded in American collections
- Innocence and Fidelity and Mother and Child in a Storm · Powers' Art Gallery, Rochester, New York (by 1875); untraced after 1899.
Family memoranda record a few further titles known only from oral tradition, which await confirmation.