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72 Route 6. GHENT. W. § S. Quarters:
From the bridge at the S.E. end of the Boul. des Hospices (Pl. C, 6)
the Boulevard de la Citadelle leads past the handsome fountain-
monument to Count K. de Kerchove de Denterghem (1819-81), Burgo-
master of Ghent, to the Pare de la Citadelle (Pl. ©, 7), laid out
in 1870 et seq. on the site of the works of the citadel. ‘The in-
scription on the gate of the citadel which has been left standing
records that it was erected in the 11th year after the battle of
Waterloo. On the S.E. side of the park rises the Musée des Beaux
Arts, in the garden in front of which stands ‘Les Planteurs de Mat’,
a group of labourers in bronze, by J. van Biesbroeck; above the Small
Pond is a monument by L. Mast and A. Heins, eee of a negro
seated upon arock, commemorating the brothers Van de Velde, natives
of Ghent, who died in the service of the Congo Free State (1882 and
1888). The park contains also, onthe N.W. , Prometheus and the eagle
in marble, by L. van Biesbroeck. Band at 5 p.m. on Thurs. in summer.
The *Museée des Beaux-Arts (Pl. ©, 7), in an imposing building
designed by Ch. van Rysselberghe and opened in 1904, though of
less importance than the galleries at Brussels and Antwerp, still
repays inspection. It contains modern sculptures and about 475 old
and 215 modern paintings, including examples of the British, French,
Dutch, and German schools. Entrance on the N.W. side. Ad-
mission, see p. 05. Curator, M. L. Maeterlinck. — Catalogue (1909)
in French 4 fr.
The large central rooms cont the Scutprurgs. — Vestibule:
Marble busts by Th. Vincotte (King Leopold I]. and Queen Maria
Hentiette) and El. Corbet (Gen. Bonaparte, 1798); marble figures and
busts by E. Namur, P. de Vigne, H. Leroy, D. van den Bossche, A.
I. Bouré, J. Lagae, P. Verschaffelt. Plaquettes. Two pieces of Brus-
sels tapestry by P. van den Hecke (47th cent.).— Central Hall (Salon
Central): J. Lagae, *Penitents (bronze); £. Rombaur, The Venusberg
(bronze); J. Dillens, Sphinx ((Enigme; bronze); Je/’ Lambeaux,
A mortal wound (bronze); Bronze monument to P. de Vigne the
sculptor and L. de Winne the painter, with a statue of immortality
py P. de Vigne, and busts of both artists by Rodin and De Vigne;
. Meunier, *Prodigal Son. By the walls, *Busts by P. de Vigne, etc.
On the right wall, a painting by Fr. Duchastel, representing the Pro-
cession in the Marché du Vendredi at the reception of Charles II. of
Spain as Count of Flanders (1666); also Brussels tapestry by P. van
den Hecke and by* Urbain Leyniers (1717; Triumph of Venus, Apollo
and the Muses, Triumph of Diana, Minerva, and Mars). — In the
adjacent Hémicycle, or semicircular room: Sculptures including a
colossal relief (in plaster) by J. Lambeaux, representing Human
Passions (comp. p. 136), — Adjoining the central room on the right
is
ConnEcrIoN OF OLpER Parytryes. — Room I. G. de Crayer,
Virgin handing the scapulary to St. Simon Stock, *Coronation of
St. Rosalie, Resurrection; Hr. Duchastel (?), Portrait; G. de Crayer, |
