and Joannes de Maré In the orphanage's former chapel, which was the first room to be turned into a museum, there is a collection of utensils used by the orphans and the foundlings and objects that interest them, including porridge bowls, foundling dresses and identifiers, embroidered samplers, antique furniture; and a collection of documents regarding the Maagenhuis. In the same room are a few paintings, such as
van Overbeke's
Triptych of the crucifixion, and
Huibrecht van den Eynde's
The Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus. In the
Reception, where there stood the administration of the Maidens' House and the
catalogue with all the names of the orphans living at
Maagdenhuis, there is a first assortment of paintings, which includes opera by
Peter Ykens,
Cornelis Schut and
Erasmus Quellinus the Younger. In the ''Chairman's Hall'', where the regent and the almoners used to convene, there is a second group of paintings, by artists such as
Frans Floris,
Pieter van Avont,
Maarten Pepyn, and
David Teniers the Younger. In the
Side Corridor, which runs between the museum galleries, there hang paintings by artists like
Frans Francken the Elder,
Abraham Bloemaert, and
Hendrick de Clerck. In what used to be the first of three kitchens, there is the
Rubens Gallery, with paintings by
Peter Paul Rubens,
Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert and
Otto van Veen, among others. In what used to be the large kitchen, or the
groote ceucken, there is the
Sixteenth-century Gallery, with artworks by painters such as
Jacob de Backer and
Michiel Coxie. At the end of the side corridor, to the right, there is the
Van Der Meere Gallery, with a masterpiece by
Jacob Jordaens and other paintings by artists such as
Theodoor van Loon and
Abraham de Vries. The
Fifteenth-century Gallery is located in the smallest room of the
Maagdenhuis Museum. Little is known about his rooms, except that three old women lived there in the 17th century, having donated funds to the almoners in exchange for a room and boarding at the
Maagdenhuis. This gallery includes several paintings by unknown masters, including a 15th-century
Last Judgement, the Seven Acts of Mercy and the Seven Deadly Sins. In the
Courtyard there stands the annex in which the orphans lived and worked. The courtyard accommodates several sculptures and inscriptions, among which a wooden, 17th-century statue by an unknown master,
Wooden Clara; a copy of Van den Eynde's original sculpture
The Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus in the chapel; and
Sebastiaen van den Eynde's
Portrait of Cornelis II Landschot, ca. 1656. == Gallery ==