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160 Section 8. BERLIN. Ravend's Gallery.
Platz (and Liitzow-Platz), Potsdam Station, Schoneberg, and Zoological
Garden a shorter route will soon be offered by the Underground Railway
(p. 14).
In the Wall-Str. (Nos. 5-8), to the E. of the Spittel-Markt, are
the business premises of Jacques Ravene Sons, wholesale metal-
merckants (founded 1775), erected in 1895-96. On the third floor
(entrance, Wall-Str. 7) is —
*Ravene's Picture Gallery (PL R, 25), a collection of
about 200 works by modern German and French masters, including
several choice examples of the older Berlin and Diisseldorf schools
(adm., see p. 39).
Room I. To the left: Knaus, Mouse-trap, Woman and cats; K. Becker,
Family portraits, Morning after the ball, Jeweller and senator; Tidemand,
Sunday in Norway; E. Hildebrandt, Santa Gloria near Rio de Janeiro;
Saltzmann, Cape of Good Hope; Graeb, Fontana Medina in Naples; Knaus,
P. L. Ravene; E. Hildebrandt, Winter pleasures; Korner, Nile landscape;
Graeb, Near Florence; Schrodter, Eulenspiegel as baker's apprentice;
P. Meyerheim, Trophies of the chase. Water-colours by Hilgers, Hose-
mann, Hoguet, etc.
Room II. Hasenclever, Jobs (a dunce) undergoing examination, Jobs
as schoolmaster; Fleury, Massacre of Jews in London, 1307.
Room III., with busts of the founder of the collection, Peter Louis
Ravene (d. 1861), and of his son, Louis Raveni (d. 1879), by Hoffmeister.
Jordan, Child's funeral in Heligoland; Leu, Landslip in Norway; Stevens,
Mourners; Gallait, Bohemian musicians; Henry Bitter, Drowned fisher-
boy.— Hasenclever, Portrait of himself; Couture, Page; Schroder, Death
of Leonardo da Vinci; Graeb, Halberstadt Cathedral; Hasenclever, Hilgers
the painter; E. Hildebrandt, Leisure hours; A. Achenbach, Ostend har¬
bour; Flamm, Italian scene; Menzel, Frederick the Great; Scheuren,
Landscape in storm; Lessing, Huntsmen. — Hasenclever, Jobs as night-
watchman; Tidemand, The old wolf-hunter; Biard, French custom-house;
Schreyer, Hussars attacking; Tidemand, Funeral in Norway; Hasenclever,
Scene in a cellar; Troyon, Cattle, Hounds; Schmitson, Hungarian brood¬
mares; F. Kriiger, Stable; K. Begas, Useless labour; C. Hiibner, Game-
law; Hoguet, Landscape.
Room IV. Gudin, Storm at sea; Leu, Norwegian landscape; Hilgers,
Winter landscape; Willems, Picture-sale; A. Achenbach, Norwegian coast;
Hoguet, Silvan scene; Hasenclever, Preyer the painter; E. Hildebrandt,
Boa Viagem near Rio de Janeiro.
Room V. To the left: Warthmiiller, Carnival scene; Jernberg, Return
home. — Ziigel, Cattle watering, Evening at the pasture; Kameke, Alpine
landscape. — A. Kampf, The sisters; Sorolla y Bastida, Mother and child;
Klaus Meyer, Card-players; Bokelmann, Klaus Groth; G. Melchers, By
the fire; Munthe, Autumn. — On a stand, Emp. William II., Men of war
(water-colour drawing). — Gude, Fishing off Rilgen.
Cabinet I (apply to the custodian). E. Hildebrandt, Street scenes
from Rouen and Lyons; Andr. Achenbach, Landscape; Preyer, Sparrows'
breakfast; Lessing, Westphalian landscape; Hilgers, Winter landscape;
Knaus, Girl gathering flowers. — Cabinet II. F. E. Meyerheim, Woman
and girl of the Harz, The youngest born, Going to church, Morning hours;
P. Meyerheim, E. Meyerheim; Dupre, Landscape; F. Kriiger, Frederick
William IV.; E. Hildebrandt, Fisher-girl, Children on the beach; Fleury,
The report. — Cabinet III. Graeb, Cloisters; Hilgers, Fishermen's huts;
Horace Vernet, Zouave acting as a nurse ('Le soldat nourrice'); Roux,
Linnaeus as a youth; E. Hildebrandt, Irish hut; Brendel, Sheep; Hose-
mann, Genre-scene; Meissonier, Genre-scene.
To the left of Ravene's, at Wall-Strasse 9-13, are a series of
courts and buildings occupied by Spindler's dye-works (p. 201),