Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue, Vol. 1: Ancient Masters The last edition of the critical-descriptive Catalogue of the antwerp-museum, was published in 1874. Sold out since several years, and never reprinted, this, in a great many respects remarkable work, was replaced by a short catalogue, of which since 1905, seven editions have appeared. It was the distinctly expressed wish of the Museum Committee to publish, within the shortest possible space of time, either a fourth edition of this earlier catalogue, completed until 1905, or an entirely new and original one, in the course of the year of our National jubilee, which was to commemorate, not only the seventy-fifth anniversary of our National Independence, but which was also devoted to the exhibition of a large number of the pictures, of one of our great Flemish masters jacob jordaens 1. Notwithstanding the very insufficient space of time allotted to me, I have not hesitated to comply with this very reasonable wish of the managing board. Let me however be allowed to remark, that whereas the catalogue of 1874 describes or only mentions 648 numbers, being 626 pictures, including five copies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.