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5 i2 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. Sales. Domburgh, The Hague, 1745 (1400 florins, with pendant). G. van der Pot, Rotterdam, June 6, 1808, No. 142 (3625 florins, J. M. Jorissen for the Rijksmuseum). In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1907 catalogue, No. 2708 (Sm. valued it in 1829 at .400). 795. THE HORRORS OF WAR. In the centre the com- mander of a detachment of troops halts his chamois-coloured horse in profile to the left. His mounted trumpeter is at his side, facing the spectator. On the right an officer on a grey horse tries to pull up on to the saddle a woman whom a helmeted soldier lifts up to him. There are several groups of peasants, women, and soldiers. In the corner is a house ; the furniture is being thrown out of window. To the left are captive peasants and soldiers carrying off loot. The distance is full of burning and ruined houses. Signed with the monogram ; panel, 19 inches by 25 inches. In the collection of the Due d'Arenberg, Brussels; W. Burger's 1859 catalogue, No. 69. Btlrger wrongly identified it with Sm. 257, which is 796 below. 796. THE HORRORS OF WAR (or, Soldiers plundering a Town). Sm. 257 and Suppl. 187. In the centre foreground is an officer on a grey horse. Beside him, to the right, another pulls on to his horse a woman whom a soldier has brought him. In front of him, to the right, are two kneeling prisoners and a soldier in armour. Farther to the right lies a dead man. A woman kneels weeping beside her husband's corpse, while a crying child stands beside her. In the middle distance are soldiers. In the left foreground a woman strikes another woman, and a soldier in armour treads on her. Near them is a horse, seen from the back, with the rider standing on its left. In the distance are burning houses ; the furniture is being thrown out of the windows of the nearest house. Gloomy sky. "This picture is too brown in colour" (Sm.). [Compare the slightly larger and almost identical 795. Pendant to booh.] Signed with the monogram ; panel, 17 inches by 24^ inches. Sales. C. Wittert van Valkenburg, Rotterdam, April 1 1, 1731 (Hoet, i. 368), No. 39 (1725 florins, with pendant). Amsterdam, January 21, 1733 (Hoet, i. 376), No. 3 (1400 florins). Amsterdam, April 2, 1734 (Hoet, i. 406), No. i (1330 florins). In the collection of Madame Reuver, Delft; bought as a whole in 1750 by the Landgraf of Hessen Kassel. In the Schloss Altstadt, Kassel ; 1749 inventory, No. 571 ; 1783 inventory, No. 39. Taken to Paris by the French, 1806. In the Malmaison collection till 1816, when it was sold (for 10,000 francs). In the Boursault collection, Paris, 1829 (Sm.) ; bought as a whole in 1838 by Arteria for Edmund Higginson. Sales. Edmund Higginson of Saltmarsh Castle, London, June 4, 1846 (483, bought in) ; and 1860 (525, Bennett). Schneider, Paris, April 10, 1876, No. 5. E. Secretan, Paris, July 13, 1889, No. 9.