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122 Route 10. BRUSSELS. Upper Boulevards:
Room XY. Entrance-wall: 395. J. Verhas, Review of the schools,
on the occasion of the silver wedding of the King and Queen of the
Belgians in 1878. The procession, headed by girls in white dresses
led by their teachers, is passing the Palace, in front of which are
the King and Queen, the Archduke Albert of Austria, and the Count
of Flanders, with their suites. The burgomaster and sheriffs of
Brussels also are in the procession. All the heads are portraits. —
Right wall: L. Frédéric, *{44, ‘Les marchands de craie’ (starting for
work, midday meal, return in the evening), painted in 1883, 437.
Peasant life; 396. Is. Verheyden, Woman gathering wood.
Room X VI (Foreign Schools). To the left: 38. Thos. A. Brown,
Portrait; 102, 103. J. H. L. de Haas, Cattle at pasture; above, 256.
H, W. Mesdag, After the storm (1895); 460. Carolus- Duran, Portrait ;
169. H. Gerver, Alf. Stevens, the painter; 351. Fr. Thaulow, Old
bridge; 139. Fantin-Latour, Drawing-lesson (1879); *347. Giovanni
Segantini, Flock of sheep (1887): *147. E. Fromentin, ‘The Thirsty
Land’ (caravan in the Sahara; 1869); 64. G. Courbet, Portrait; 220.
Lenbach, Dr. Déllinger; 58. Ch. Cottet, Women and child of the Ile
d@Ouessant (Ushant), in Brittany; above, 427. Jgn. Zuloaya, Bulls
at pasture before the bull-fight; @. Courbet, 60. Sefiora Guerrero,
a Spanish dancer (1851), 59. Alf. Stevens, the painter; 146. W. Frith,
Epsom races; 219. Fr. Lenbach, Bishop Strossmayer of Diakovar.
Room XVII. 27. L. Lhermitte, Country-girls bathing (pastel;
1894); 290. J. Fr. Raffaelli, Notre Dame at Paris; 513. Js. Ver-
heyden, Vespers; 188, 505. A. J. Heymans, Landscapes; between
these, 436. H. Evenepoel, Portrait of the artist in a red costume;
Th. van Rysselberghe, 385. Mother and child, 454. Promenade by the
shore; 45. Em. Claus, The ford; 42. J. Fr. Raffaelli, Birdseed-seller
(pastel); 432. Em. Claus, Flax-gathering.
To the left are three rooms for temporary exhibitions.
c. The Upper Boulevards.
Tramways Nos. 14 & 15 from the S.E. corner of the square in front of
the Gare du Nord (p.89) run vii the Boulevard du Jardin-Botanique.
Nos.1 & 3 also traverse considerable sections of the Upper Boulevards.
The Boulevards, which, with an aggregate length of 5 M., outline
the pentagonal site of ancient Brussels, were laid out at the end of
the 18th and the beginning of the 19th cent. on the site of the
former fortifications. About 1840 the last portion of the moat skir-
ting their exterior side was filled up. The Upper Boulevards, far
less important than the Lower Boulevards on the W. side of the
town, have a width of over 250 ft. (including the parallel side-
streets) and are divided by four rows of old elms into passages for
carriages, riders, and pedestrians.
To the right of the BouLryarp pu Jarpin-BorTaniaquzE (Pl. D, E,
1,2; Kruidtwinlaan), which ascends towards the 8.E. from the Gare
du Nord to the upper town, is the Rue des Cendres, where (at No. iG |