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 two others shooting arrows, and a third flying towards Mars, who, attended by Love with a torch, is approaching in a chariot drawn by lions; between Sylvia and Mars, the Tiber personified, with Romulus and Remus, and the wolf. Engraved by Niquet in Musée français.—Cat. Louvre; Filhol, iv. Pl. 223; Landon, Musée, viii. Pl. 55; Smith, viii. 121.

MARS AND VENUS, Luca Giordano, Louvre; canvas, H. 2 ft. × 2 ft. 6 in. Mars about to leave Venus, who is reclining, nude, on a couch; at right, two women arrange the toilette of the goddess; at left, a cupid plays with a dog; another is on a globe, around which is twined a serpent; in background, Vulcan working at his forge. Engraved by Pierron; Sixdeniers.—Villot, Cat. Louvre; Musée royal, ii.; Filhol, xi. Pl. 55; Landon, Musée, xiii. Pl. 11.

By Guercino, Modena Gallery; canvas, H. 4 ft. 2 in. × 4 ft. 10 in. Venus, half nude, sitting upon a couch; behind her, Cupid aiming an arrow; at left, Mars, in full armour, is drawing aside the curtains of the bed. Painted in 1634 for Francesco, Duke of Modena; carried to Paris; returned in 1815. Engraved by Giovanni Berselli; Le Villain; L. A. Claessens.—Landon, Musée, ii. Pl. 17; Filhol, i. Pl. 9.

By Nicolas Poussin, Louvre; canvas, H. 2 ft. 8 in. × 4 ft. 9 in. Venus, nude, reclining on drapery spread on the ground under trees; Mars, with his casque on, half reclining behind her; on opposite side a cupid with a torch, others, etc. Engraved by Blot in Musée français; Niquet.—Cat. Louvre; Filhol, iv. Pl. 259; Smith, viii. 104.

MARSEN (Marts, Martsen), JAN (the younger?), flourished about 1632-44. Dutch school; battle painter, about whose life nothing is known; as he occasionally painted backgrounds in the pictures of Michiel Miervelt, he may have lived at Delft. Works: Cavalry Combat (1630), Rotterdam Museum; Gustavus Adolphus in Battle of Lützen 1636), Brunswick Museum; Fight between Cavalry and Infantry (1632), Schwerin Gallery; Cavalry Skirmish (1644), Czernin Gallery, Vienna.—Kramm, iii. 816; Riegel, Beiträge, ii 422; Schlie, 365.

MARSEUS VAN SCHRICK, OTHO, born at Nymwegen about 1619, died at Amsterdam in June, 1678. Dutch school; still-life painter; excelled in the representation of plants, insects, and reptiles, which he painted with great truth and careful detail. He visited England, France, where he painted for the queen mother, and Italy; was long in the service of the Grand Duke of Tuscany; lived at Rome and Naples, and in the former place was called Snuffelaer (Seeker), from his search after insects, plants, etc., in the Campagna; appears as settled in 1663 at Amsterdam, where he kept a special preserve for the breeding of insects and reptiles. Works: A Nest, Rotterdam Museum; Two large Snakes among Plants, Berlin Museum; Snakes, Mushrooms, etc. (1662), Brunswick Museum; Poppy with Butterflies, similar subject (1671), Dresden Gallery; Bouquet with Insects, etc., Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Thistle with Snake, etc., Schleissheim Gallery; Animal Life in the Woods (7, three dated 1660, 1669, 1676), Schwerin Gallery; Landscape with Shrubbery and Frog, Wiesbaden Gallery; Flowers with Snake and Insects (1672), four others, Uffizi, Florence; Reptiles, Birds, and Insects (1667), Historical Society, New York.—Immerzeel, ii. 199; Kramm, iv. 1060; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 522; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 437; Schlie, 366; Siret (1883), ii. 18.

MARSH IN THE LANDES (Marais dans les Landes), Théodore Rousseau. Frédéric Hartmann sale, Paris (1881), 129,000 francs, bought by State.

MARSHALL, JAMES, born at Amsterdam in 1838. History and landscape paint