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110 Route 10. BRUSSELS. Royal Museums:
No. 202) by Frans Hals, and the portraits by Rembrandt (R. IX,
No. 367), B. van der Helst (R. VIII, Nos. 244-216), Th. de Keyser
(R. IX, Nos. 260, 251), and Nic. Maes (R. IX, No. 279). Atten-
tion should be given also to the genre-scenes by Jan Stcen (Resbxe
Nos. 444, 445) and G. Metsu (R. IX, No. 296), the landscapes of
M. Hobbema (R. 1X, No. 220) and Jan Both (R. IX, No. 52), and the
still-life pieces of Abr. van Beyeren (R. IX, No. 36) and the De Heems
(RR. VIII and IX). More historical than artistic interest attaches to
the pictures of official processions (‘Ommeganck’) by D. van Alsloot,
J, Wildens, and others, and of battles by P. Snayers (R. VII, No. 430,
etc.), which illustrate the public life of the 46th and 17th centuries,
Room I (Flemish School of the 17th cent.). — On the end-wall,
to the left: 477. A. van Utrecht, Fruit; 322. P. Nee/f's the Elder, In-
terior of Antwerp cathedral. — 323. P. Neeffs the Elder, Interior of
Antwerp cathedral; 748. J. Jordaens, The Prodigal Son; G@. de Crayer,
124. Madonna of the rosary, 125. Assumption of St. Catharine;
95. Ph. de Champaigne, Presentation in the Temple. — 82. Jan
Brueghel, Autumn; 175. P. Francois, The test; 121. J. van Craes-
beeck, Musical party; 245. J. Jordaens, Apostle’s head (coloured
sketch); 259. J. M. Molenaer (not N. Lafabrique), Youth counting
money; D. Ryckaert, 405. The alchemist, 406. Rustic meal.
Room I, on the right. — 432. P. Snayers, Festival of the archers’
guild of the Grand Serment at the church of Notre Dame du Sablon
in 1651; 5, 4. D. van Alsloot, Procession in the market-place of
Brussels in 1615; between these, 348. A. Moro (Sir Anthony More ?),
So-called portrait of the Duke of Alva. — 138. G. de Crayer (?), The
Virgin as patroness of the Grand Serment; 6. D. van Alsloot, Féte
in the park of Tervueren; 468. Th. van Thulden, Adoration of the
Holy Sacrament (1637); A. Sallaert, 409. Procession of virgins at
the church of Notre Dame du Sablon, 408. Festival of the Grand
Serment at the same church in 1615. — 38. Karel E. Biset, Tell
and the apple, with the members of the guild of St. Sebastian as
spectators. — We now turn to the left into the long and narrow —
Room III (Galerie Rubens). Between the columns on the left
are bronze busts of Flemish artists. — By the entrance-wall: 465.
Th. van Thulden, Flemish wedding; 156. Fr. Duchatel, Procession
of the Knights of the Golden Fleece. — 129. G. de Crayer, Martyr-
dom of St. Blasius; P. de Vos, 507. Horse attacked by wolves, 506.
Stag-hunt; between these, 380. Rubens, Pieta (studio-picce; freely
restored); 244. Jordaens, Portrait of a lady (1641); 382. Rubens,
Venus in Vulcan’s smithy (the latter a modern addition); 154. G. de
Crayer, Portrait of an abbot. Rubens, *377. Adoration of the Magi
(painted about 1645 for the Capuchins at Tournai); 374. Way to
Golgotha, with Christ in the centre, collapsing under the weight of
the cross, of which Simon of Cyrene is relieving him, in front are
the thieves in chains (1636-37); 876. Christ hurling thunderbolts
against the guilty world, while the Virgin and St. Francis intercede |