Later, two well-known German art experts _Herr Demmler_ and _Herr Professor Klemen_, armed with carefully annotated catalogues, made a general "requisition" comprising: 1,500 drawings (including those by Raphael and Michael Angelo), 420 paintings and 518 other works of art, all of which were packed up, labelled and sent off. The famous _="Wax Head"= (page 43)_ had, however, been hidden away in an underground vault, and replaced by a copy. In an endeavour to justify their action, the Germans sent out a radiogram on November 4th, 1918, stating that the Museum of Lille had been damaged so seriously as to be unsafe for works of art, and that at the request of the curator, an inventory of the collections had been made and the latter transferred first to Valenciennes and then to the Old Museum in Brussels. VISIT TO THE MUSEUM The collections are classed under four distinct heads: =paintings=, =modern sculpture=, =archeological and lapidary specimens= and the =Wicar collections=. I.--Paintings The =Flemish= and =French= schools are the best represented. _(For a detailed description of the paintings, see "La peinture au Musée de Lille," by François Benoit_, 3 vols. _in 4to, with reproductions_, 1908). The =Spanish= school includes a St. Jerome, by _Ribera_, dated 1643. [Illustration: THE MARTYRDOM OF ST. GEORGE _by Veronese (Cliché LL.)_] The =Italian= school contains The Martyrdom of St. George by _Veronese_ (duplicate of the painting by _San Giorgio Maggiore_ at Verona); two circular panels: Eloquence and Science (symbolized by two Venetian women with auburn hair), also by Veronese; The Flight into Egypt by _Carlo Saraceni_, and the Assumption of the Virgin by _Piazzetta_ (two very original painters little known in France); a delicate "Virgin with wild roses," of exquisite colouring, by _Ridolfo Ghirlandajo_; "Magdalene at the feet of Christ" and a "Judith and Holopherne" by _Lambert Zustris_ (often called Lambert Lambard)--two paintings of limpid colouring; (note the delicate lilac-grey tints). As befits the "Capital of Flanders," the =Flemish= and =Dutch= Schools of the North are fully represented. [Illustration: THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS, _by Rubens (Cliché LL.)_]