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Madern Paintings. ANTWERP. 13. Route. 199
Pilgrimage; L. Frédéric, Interior. — * 4274, Ev. Larock, The idiot
(1892); no number, A. J. Heymans, Wooded landscape near Ber-
roone: 1300 4264. L. Frédéric, Group of children
303. A. Baertson, Flemish village by
rn to Room S and to the left enter —
59. H. de Braekeleer, The restorer.
*H. de Braekeleer, 4029. Old tavern
30. The engraver. — 1348.
J. Portaels, Hendrik Con-
‘At the Kasr en-Nil in Cairo;
1042. P. J. Clays, Landscape
yrecht Diirer travelling on
evening-light ( 1897) ). We
Room Q. To the right:
J. Lies, Contra
science oe
(433. Stobbaerts, Leaving the stable;
near Dordrecht (1876); 1100. Lies,
the Rhine (4 — Jan van Bera ady in white, 1440.
Peter Benoit of 4 rp, the compose ), 1288. Portrait of
Henri Rochefort; 1296. Verlat, L. Derickx, the painter.
e. The Avenues, Park, and New Quarters.
The ring of spacious streets constructed on the site of the ram-
parts (built 1 540- 43), which formerly described a semicircle round
the E. side of the old town and were removed in 1859, is known
collectively as the Aventes (Flem. Leien).
From the ‘ docks (p. 203) the Avenuz pu Commencs (Han-
delslei; Pl. ¢ 3: tramway No.4, p. 166), with a Scandinavian
ad ae e hark leads to the Pr ACE DE LA ComMMUNE (Gemeente-
Plaats ; , D, 3), which is embe llished with gardens and with
mar ae s of Van Dyck (1.; by L. de Cuyper, 4856) and Jor-
daens (r.; by Jul. Pecher, 1886). At the N.E. angle of the square
is the Athénée Royal, bi nilt in 1880- 84 by Dens, in front of which
bronze monument, by Fr. Joris (4 97), to L. de Wael,
burgomaster in 1872-92. Onponite the last is the so-called Monument
of the ‘Furie Francaise’, erected to commemorate the expulsion of
the French under the Duke of Anjou in 1583 and consisting of
a triumphant figure of Antwerpia, on a pedestal with reliefs, by
W. Geefs and Fr. van Dyck (188:
On the W. side of the Place rises the Flemish Theatre (Thédtre
Flamand or Nederlandsche Schouwburg; Pl. C, 3), a handsome Re-
ance building, erected by Dens in 1869-72. ins cription: ‘Vrede
cunst, kunst veredelt het volk’ (peace begets art, art ennobles
1s a
the people).
ee the beginning of the AvENuE pgs Arts (or Kunstlet;
Pi 3,4), to the left, is the Flemish ener House (Viaamsch
ou or Thédtre Lyrique Flamand; Pl. D, 3), built by Al. van
Mechelen in 1904-7. Just beyond this the Avenue de Keyser leads
to the left to the Gare Centrale, while the Place Teniers (p. 171)
opens to the right. — Farther on, on the S.E. side of the ee its
des Arts, is the Avenue Marie-Thérése, leading to the Park (see
p. 200).
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