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5 o 4 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. Canvas, 32 J inches by 41 inches. Sales. C. Mastrigt, Rotterdam, November 29, 1798, No. I (93 florins). Baron de Beurnonville, Paris, May 21, 1883, No. 108. 778. Cavalry making a Sortie from a Hill-Fort. In the mass of combatants, a man on a white horse has seized the rider of a grey horse by the arm and strikes him with the butt-end of his pistol. " An early work of the master, and much too brown in colour" (Sm.). Signed j canvas, about 54 inches by 74 inches. In the collection of the Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim, 1842 (Sm.). Sale. Duke of Marlborough, London, June 26, 1886 G^47 2 : IOS -> Adams). 779. A Battle between Cavalry and Infantry. In the fore- ground of an extensive landscape a company of infantry repulses the attack of a detachment of cavalry. In the foreground the commander on a grey horse fires his pistol. Near him is the ensign with a red standard. Signed on the right at foot with the monogram ; canvas, 19^ inches by ii inches. Sale. Countess Reigersberg, Cologne, October 15, 1890, No. 180. 7790. A Cavalry Fight. In front are fallen horses and dead men. Nearly in the centre a man on a grey horse is fighting towards the right, where a dense mass of men are struggling hand to hand. Houses are seen amidst trees in the right background. In the left foreground a man rides to the left. Behind him are more horsemen fighting. [Compare 770^.] Signed with the full monogram ; canvas, 19^ inches by 27 inches. Sale. Delitt and others, Cologne, February 5, 1900, No. 77. 779/>. A Cavalry Fight at the Passage of a River. [Com- pare 777^.] 29 inches by 18 inches, or the reverse. Sale. Woronzow, Florence, April 23, 1900, No. 497. 779c. A Cavalry Fight. Panel, 14 inches by 18 inches. Sale. Sir T. Lucas, London, June 7, 1902, No. 291. 779^. Two Cavalry Fights. Pendants. 5| inches by i6| inches. Sale. Henry Milner, London, December 6, 1902, No. 41. 779*. A Cavalry Fight. A hot cavalry skirmish is proceeding on the bank of a stream, on the farther side of which a fortified town lies at the foot of high hills. On the extreme left a trumpeter gallops forward. In the centre lies a dead horse ; behind it two horsemen fire at each other. Signed, P. W. ; panel, 14 inches by 19 inches. Sale. Chevalier Meyer van den Broeck of Schaerebeeck, Munich, May 15, 1905, No. 68.