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Sculpture Gullery. ANTWERP. 13. Route. 187
In the Enrrancs Haun, opposite the door, are four busts of
former governors of the Spanish Netherlands and of Philip Ne <b
A, Quellin the Elder, G. Kerricx, and others.
Ve turn first to the left and enter the Sculpture Gallery.
Zoom I. In the middle: 1248. E. Chatrousse, Fellow-feeling (a
French and a German soldier). On the walls are cartoons by Kaul-
bach, Jan Swerts, Th. Connect, on G. Guffens (p. 89), and a char-
coal- Edearine: Severely tried, by Theo van Doormael.
Room II. Among the sagen are a number of busts, mostly
of artists. — tion I. 1364. E. Deckers, Nymph discovering the
head of the ‘inurdere d Orpheus; 1066. G. Geefs, Leander drowned
(1886). — Section II. * . Jef. Lambeaux, The kiss, a highly
real prone group 2; p. Ixxvii); 1060. J. J. Ducaju,
Leopold II. (marb ). To the right is the anteroom men-
tioned below. — Section III. Amazon ee eee a
tiger, reduced marb
(1865); 1064. C. A. Fraikin, Finding of Moses; no number , Rodin,
The prisoner (bronze Alf. van Beurden, ated boy (marble);
1270. a Jespers, Da < (high relief, 1894); 1606. Jul. Anthone,
ae lil (1904); de Rater The nest (1883) ; 4190.
Fr. Joris
On the 8
Antwerp and other pic
from the bank of the
and the old crane, ca
f this room are hung a number of views of
s I. 717. Math. Schoevaerdis, Antwerp
. B. Peeters, The wharf at Antwerp
G. & B. Peeters, Battle of Calloo, 1638.
ia parading in the Place de Meir, 1673;
r twerp Hotel de Ville in 1576
Place de Meir. — Section IIf.
Reception of St. Norbert. —
— In the anteroom of Sec-
and drawings Section V.
of old Antwerp. Ff.
Pulling down 1 the for ions near the Porte de Kipdorp
of Count Fred. de Mérode (p. 102); 1027. The citadel after the poetaede
ment of 1832; 1024. Destruction of the Porte St. Georges.
Antseroom. 1415. J. R. Pecher, Marble bust of Rubens (1877).
To the right, no number, two large views of Antwerp by Fr. Simons
and L. van Engelen (1903).
The next room and the whole of the groundfloor of the right
wing are devoted to the Rupens CorzEction (L’@uwvre gravé de
Rubens), founded in 1877 by the city of Antwerp and the Belgian
state. It contains about 2000 reproductions (engravings, etchings,
woodcuts, photographs, etc.) of most of the extant works of Rubens
and affords a most instructive insight into the wonderful versa-
tility and inexhaustible powers of the great master: Each plate
bears an explanatory extract from Max Rooses’s catalogue. — The
two halls in the rear of the museum, adjoining the Rubens Col-
. G. van Tilborgh,
e Bie, Place de Meir
The old
6 bd. E
4. P. van Bredael
tion LV are
1230, 1234,
lection, contain the VAN Dyox Coxnsorion, chiefly consisting of
photographs. In the middle (No. 1340) is a bust of the artist by
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