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 4 88 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. 738. A CAVALRY FIGHT IN A GROTTO. A small dark picture. In the Gerhardt collection, Budapest. 739. A BATTLE BETWEEN INFANTRY AND CAVALRY. Sm. Suppl. 33. From the left, infantry in close forma- tion, firing volleys, press forward against a body of cavalry which retires to the right. Among the cavalry in the centre foreground is a man on a prancing brown horse. Near him a wounded comrade falls from a piebald horse. A third man is on a spirited grey horse ; a fourth is firing. Dead and wounded on both sides lie on the ground. From the right distance another force of infantry moves forward with a drummer in front. A " very excellent picture" (Sm.). Signed on the road on the left at foot with the full monogram ; canvas, 24 inches by 1 inches. In the collection of Willem Lormier, The Hague, 1752 (Hoet, ii. 448) ; he had bought it (for 381 florins) according to his storeroom catalogue of December 1754, No. 356 ; and he sold it, May 21, 1753 (for 400 florins), to Gerard Hoet, through whom it went to Kassel. In the chief Kassel inventory of 1749, No. 740. In the Schloss Altstadt, Kassel, 1783 inventory, No. 37. At the Louvre, Paris, 1806-15. In the Picture Gallery, Kassel, 1903 catalogue, No. 354 (old No. 327) ; it was there in 1842 (Sm., who valued it at 400). 740. A BATTLE BETWEEN CAVALRY AND IN- FANTRY BEFORE A HILL-FORT. Sm. Suppl. 149. In the left middle distance is the burning fort, before which a line of infantry are firing on the attacking cavalry. In the foreground is a fierce hand-to- hand combat between horsemen. The central figure on a bay horse holds a blue-and-white banner in his left hand, and fires the pistol in his right hand at a cuirassier on a black horse, who falls back with uplifted arms, mortally wounded. In front of him, a light horse with a rider falls on its knees. Under it a cuirassier with a red sash lies on his back. To the right three horsemen turn against two others, one of whom fires his pistol while the other blows a trumpet. Both are in the act of crossing a little stream to the right. Signed on the left at foot with the full monogram ; canvas, 27^ inches by 32^ inches. In the Dresden inventory of 1722, A 388. In the Royal Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1905 catalogue, No. 1428 ; it was there in 1842 (Sm., who valued it at 350). 741- CAVALRY FORCING THE PASSAGE OF A BRIDGE. Sm. Suppl. i. On the right is a broad stream. In the centre is a stone arched bridge. In the left foreground is the battlefield. One of the horsemen fighting here gallops to the left with a large yellow banner. Another on a grey horse fires his pistol at a foot-soldier who has stabbed his horse in the chest. In the centre foreground, with his back to the spectator, is a drummer in red beside a fallen man. In the water