MUTIUS SCÆVOLA, Charles Lebrun, Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 3 ft. 2 in. × 4 ft. 4 in. Mutius, sworn to kill King Porsenna, ally of Tarquin, slays his secretary instead by mistake; seized by the guards and brought before Porsenna, he burns his right hand in a brazier to show the king that no threats can intimidate him. Porsenna, admiring his courage, gave him his liberty and made peace with the Romans. Mutius was thenceforth called Scævola (left-*handed. Livy, ii. 12, 13). Painted in Rome about 1643. Engraved by Chataigner.—Villot, Cat. Louvre; Landon, Musée, xii. Pl. 49; Filhol, x. Pl. 663.
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Mutius Scævola, Charles Lebrun, Louvre, Paris.
MUTTENTHALER, ANTON (Tony),
born at Höchstädt, May 10, 1820, died at
Leipsic, March 21, 1870. History and genre
painter, pupil in Munich of Kaulbach; excelled
as an illustrator, and in 1860 went to
Leipsic as artistic director of the Illustrirte
Zeitung. Works: Raphael painting the
Fornarina (1843); Dance of Elves (1850);
Loreley, Gretchen (1851); Origin of the
Munich Schäffler Dance (1856). In fresco:
Emperor Ludwig acquiring Mark Brandenburg,
Battle of Ampfing, National Museum,
Munich.—Allgem. d. Biog., xxiii. 116; Nagler,
Mon., iv. 469.
MUYDEN, ALFRED VAN, born at Lausanne,
Switzerland, in 1818. Genre painter
at Geneva; studied in Munich and Paris,
then lived for several years in Rome. Depicts
family life of the Roman middle class
with natural grace and pleasing colouring.
Order of Leopold, 1866. Works: Woman
of the Abruzzi nursing her Child (1850),
Ghent Museum; Italian Mother with Suckling
Asleep (1859), Roman Market Scene
(1861), Basle Museum; Pifferari, Musée Rath,
Geneva; Refectory at Albano; Monks playing
Chess; Happy Family; Father Confessor;
Mowers returning Home; Thrashing
of Grain in the Campagna.
MUYS, NICOLAAS, born at Rotterdam
in 1740, died there in 1808. Interior and
landscape painter, pupil of his father Wil-
