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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.

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