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346 Route 41, LEYDEN.
Municipal Museum.
interesting paintings and a multifarious collection of antiquities
connected with Leyden, is open daily, 10-4, adm. 10 c.; Sun., holi-
days, and on Oct. 3rd, 12-4, free. Catalogue of the paintings (1908)
30 c., illustrated 80 c. Director, Dr. J. C. Overvoorde.
Grouxp Froor. In the Corridor are two ‘Regent Pieces’ (No. 11, to
the left, by Jan de Baen, 1675), a flag captured from the Spanish Armada in
1588, and two fine tapestries. One of the last (made in Delft from cartoons
by Liefring and Swanenburg) represents the relief of Leyden in 1574,
Main Room. To the right: 182, 481. Leyden School (middle of the
16th cent.), Portraits; between these, Piete tsen, Christ and the adul-
terous woman ; 61. Cornelis Engebrechtsz, Crucifixion with numerous figures
(a winged picture; ca. 1508); 177. Lucas van Leyden, Last Judgment, the
only authenticated large painting by this artist (triptych; from the Church
of St Peter; ca. 1525); 62. ©. Engebrechtsz, Pieta; 9. Rud. van Antwerpen,
The Van der Does family. — 32, Q. van Brekelenkam, Domestic cares; 281,
Rembrandt, Portrait (ca. 1643); 275, 276. Jan van Ravesteyn, Jacob van
Brouckhoven and his wife (1626); between these, 78. Jan van Goyen, View
of Leyden (1650); . Pieter van Veen (Leyden, 1564-1630), Arrival of the
Water Beggars in 1574 (painted in 1615); 308. san Steen, Scherzando; 39.
Jacques de Claeu, Vanitas. — 0, P. Moreelse, Family oup (1601); e. Q van
Brekelenkam, Mussel-eater (1655); 295. Joris van Schooten, Corporation-piece
(1626); i. Jan van Goyen, River-scene; 20. Ferd. Bol, Pieter Bur
Secretary of the University; y. Jan Steen, Consecration of a count
318 (above), Jurriaan van Streek, Still-life; u. 8. van Ruysdael, C
mish; 296. Joris van Schooten, Corporation-piece (1626): ; en van
Steenwyck, Still-life; 74. Adr. van Gaesbeeck, Holy Family; - Jan Steen,
Laban searching Rachel's tent for his stolen images; 157. Maarten van der
Huist, Fish-auction on the beach; 309. Jan Steen, Drawing by candle-light,
Also, 294-299. Six pictures of arquebusiers, painted in 1626, 1628, and
1650 by Joris van Schooten (the execution is good and the heads are full
of expression, but there is no attempt at artistic grouping).
To the left of the vestibule are a sitting-room and
the 47th century.
First Froor. The walls of the Large Hall are hung with ‘Regent’ or
Corporation pieces, numerous portraits of the 16-18th cent., ancient stained
glass, etc. On the show-case (containing mass-books and guild-antic
in the middle ofthe room is a large silv
Leyden by Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia. In the adjoining rooms are
municipal antiquities. That to the N.W. contains a painting by Joris van
Schooten (No. 291), representing the misery at Leyden during the siege; a
chimney-piece of the end of the 17th cent., with a group of the syndics
of the cloth-hall by Karel de Moor (No. 2415); medals; and other relics, —
On the staircase, old weapons and stained glass of the 16th cent., represent-
ing Counts and Countesses of Holland, in shades of brown.
Upper Floor. On the principal wall, facing the entrance: 31. Van
Bree, Burgomaster van der Werf offering his body to the starving citizens,
who demand the surrender of the town or the satisfaction of their hunger,
a large but mediocre work. Adjacent are six singular pictures (Nos.
319-324) by Js. Claese van Swanenburgh (d. 1614), father of Rembrandt's
master, Jac. Isackz van Swanenburgh, representing the old cloth-manufac-
tures of Leyden and the advent of Flemish cloth-makers. In the case to
the left pieces of armour of the 16th century. The glass-cases contain gold
and silver plate belonging to the municipality, of the 17th and 48th cent-
uries. — The adjacent room to the N.E. contains old arms, views and
plans of Leyden, and armour; also the work-table of Jobn of Leyden,
tailor and Anabaptist leader, who was executed at Minster in 1563,
From the Blauwpoorts-Brug, the can
Beesten-Markt (Pl. B, 2), the
Morsch Gate (PI. B, 2),
Willem y
a dining-room of
juities)
er-gilt cup, presented in 1644 to
al-bridge just beyond the
Morschstraat leads to the W. to the
a relic of the old fortifications, built by
an der Helm in 1669 and surmounted by a dome. — About |
