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vin PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 493 slender arch leads across a river to a gateway that is only visible in part. Infantry defend it against the attacking horsemen. A horse with its rider falls over the parapet j another that has been wounded rears up. In the right foreground cavalry are fighting hand to hand. In the centre is a man on a grey horse. In the extreme right foreground two infantrymen with cuirasses assail a horseman. In the centre a drummer lies dead beside his drum. Behind him is an ensign, whose banner a foot-soldier is seizing. The battle is continued in the river. In the Prado Gallery, Madrid. 754. A CAVALRY FIGHT. An early work. Signed with the early monogram ; panel, 20 inches by 28 inches. Exhibited at Mainz, 1887, No. 295. In the collection of the late St. C. Michel, Mainz. 755. THE BATTLE OF NORDLINGEN (6th September 1634) (or, A Field of Battle). Sm. 325 and Suppl. 122. On the left the German Imperial army advances from a hill, crowned with artillery ; the Swedes, horse and foot, advance against them. In the foreground a fierce cavalry fight is going on. A mortally wounded grey horse falls with its rider. Two dead soldiers lie in front of it. In the extreme left foreground a line of infantry fire a volley. This is not a specially good picture. It is improbable that it represents the battle of Nordlingen. It must in any case be a work of fancy, for Wouwerman was only fifteen in 1634. [Pendant to 800.] " An admirably painted picture " (Sm.). Signed on the left at foot with the full monogram ; canvas, 2o| inches by 31 inches. In the Electoral Gallery, Munich. In the Aeltere Pinakothek, Munich, 1904 catalogue, No. 506 ; it was there in 1829 (Sm. valued it then at 4.20, and in 1842 at 500). 756. A CAVALRY FIGHT. Sm. 455 and Suppl. 97. A cavalry fight and a battle between bodies of infantry near a burning windmill and village, beside a river on the left. In the centre foreground, on the river bank, a man on a bay horse fires his pistol at another man on a piebald horse, who falls wounded, with uplifted arms. Farther right a cuirassier on a dark-grey horse, seen from the back, strikes with his sword at another man whose horse has fallen. Troops, partly hidden by smoke, fill the landscape. " Painted with a broad, free pencil and a clear tone of colour- ing '* (Sm.). [Compare 774^.] Signed with the monogram ; panel, 21^ inches by 31^ inches. Mentioned by Waagen (Suppl. 155). Exhibited by the Paris dealer Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1901, No. 207. In the collection of A. L. van Heteren, The Hague, 1752 (Hoet, ii. 462) ; the collection went to the Amsterdam Museum in 1809. Sale. Directors of the Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam, August 4, 1828, No. 162 (4000 florins, Engelberts). In the collection of Baron J. G. Verstolk van Soelen, The Hague, No. 92, 1842 (Sm.) ; the collection was bought in 1846 by Thomas Baring, H. B. Mildmay, and Lord Overstone.