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Picture Gallery. BRUSSELS. 10. Route. 117
Josse van Cleve, Madonna; 561. B. van Orley (?), Wings of an altar-
piece (1528), with scenes from the life of St. Anne; 622. German
School, Portrait (1557).
Room XII (Salle Brueghel). — 680. P. Brueghel the Elder, Massacre
of the Innocents, naively represented as occurring in the midst of
a snow-clad landscape (4566). — 504, 505 (farther on), Josse van
leve, Portraits; 703. P. Aertsz, Jesus at the house of Martha and
ry ; #503. C. de Vos, The artist and his family; 247. J. van Hem-
essen, Prodigal Son. — P. Brueghel the Elder, 79. Fall of the wicked
s, 80. Massacre of the Innocents, in a snowy landscape. — 316.
Moro (Sir Anthony More), Portrait of Hubert Goltzius (41576);
M. de Vos, Antonio d’ Anselmo, magistrate of Antwerp, and his
family. — 359. F. Pourbus the Elder, Portrait (1573 ).— 81. P.Brueghel
the Younger, Massacre of the Innocents, a free copy of the above-
mentioned picture by his father (No. 680).
The archway in the W. angle of the Place Royale (p. 99) opens
on the Ruz pv Mus&z (Pl. D, 4), which leads to the entrance to the
Gallery of Modern Paintings (p. 118). On the left in this street rises
the f r Palais de V Industrie (Pl. D, 4), which has been occupied
since 38 by the Royal mane In the court, which is separated
from the street by a stone balustrade, is a statue in bronze (by
Jehotte, 1846) of Duke Charles of Lorraine (p. 98). The library,
founded in 1837, contains 600,000 vols., 28,000 MSS. (see below),
100,000 engravings (see p. 118; especially strong in examples of
Flemish master nd a collection of 55,000 coins (adm. see p. 96).
The reading-room is open daily, 9-6 (free). The entrance to the
library is in the centre of the main building.
In the SaLLz Dp Exurpition (tickets in the ‘Section des Sate
in the cor to the right at the k of the fore-court; comp. p. 96) a
exhibi ne most uable MSS., some of which are beautifully aaa
inated with miniatures of the old Fle school, and the most inter-
esting early pri yorks. documents, etc. The nucleus of the collection
of MSS. was the rated Bibliotheque de Bour A founded by Philippe
le Bon, Duke of sundy (1419-67). — Cabinets 1-10: MSS. of the 9-14th
cent Gn Cab. 7 i cent. account-book from Oudenaarde, with inter-
i ntations of contemporary manners, of considerable historical
Illustrated Bible (‘bible historiale’) of Guyart Desmoulins
uatin Horarium (‘livre d’heures’) of John, Duc de Berri (d.4416),
iatares b acai ernen de Hesdin, a Dutch artist. — 12. Gompositign
Sainte riture, written in 1462 by David Aubert. — 13.
de la Foi, by aie de Spina (15th cent.); Histoire de Cyrus, te
Lucena (15th cent.). — 16. L’Estrif (contest) de Fortune et de
y Martin le Franc (15th cent.); La Fleur des Histoires, by Jean
Mansel (15th cent.). — 17. Chronicles of Hainault, by Jacques de Guyse
(4446), with an illustrated title-p the author presenting his work to
Philip the Good) ascribed on insufficient grounds to Roger van der Weyden;
Le Gouvernement ei by Gilles de Rome (4450). — 19. Chron-
icques et Conquestes de Cl aotnanied by Jean le Tavernier (1458). — 20.
of Matthew Corvinus, King of Hungary (by Attavante of Florence;
37), on which the oath of fidelity to the Austrian Stadtholders was
en in the 17th and Bin centurie 22. Pontifical from the church at
Sens (15th cent.). — . Augustine’s De Civitate Dei (MS. of 1445). — |