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 49 6 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. In the collection of Count SchOnborn-Wiesentheid, Pommersfelden, 1894 catalogue, No. 637. 764. A BATTLE BETWEEN INFANTRY AND CAVALRY. Cavalry move from the right to the attack of a fortress held by infantry. The chief group in front includes three horsemen and three men on foot. The foot-soldiers are surrounded ; one of them falls, crying and stretching out his hands. From the middle distance and the right two other horsemen come up. A sixth rider lies dead to the left beside his horse, which is half-disembowelled. In the middle distance a fierce battle is raging ; banners and standards are seen in the smoke. [Pendant to 922.] Signed on the left at foot with the full monogram ; panel, 14 inches by 1 6 inches. A good copy is in the Schwerin Museum, No. 1132. Another is at Dresden, 1905 catalogue, No. 1470. A third, attributed to Matthias Weyer named in mistake for Matthias Scheits was in the Hausmann collection, Hanover, and is now in the Provincial Museum there, 1905 catalogue, No. 599. Formerly at the Schloss, Ludwigslust. In the Museum, Schwerin, 1882 catalogue, No. 1130. 765. THE FIGHT FOR THE BRIDGE. Sm. Suppl. 191.- On the left is a bridge of a single arch at the entrance to a fortress. A body of infantry, sallying out, repulses a cavalry attack. In the struggle a man and a horse fall over the bridge. Three men and horses are in the water ; one has fallen headlong and another attacks an enemy who holds his horse's bridle. Beyond them is a boat full of soldiers who fire at a party on the opposite bank. On the right is a medley of combatants. Two foot-soldiers defend themselves with their bayonets against a horse- man who gallops up ; behind them are two horsemen fighting. A picture of very good quality. Signed in the left corner with the full monogram ; canvas, 32^ inches by 42 inches. In the collection of Prince Eugene of Savoy. In the Louvre, Paris, 1799-1815. In the Royal Picture Gallery, Turin, 1899 catalogue, No. 422; it was in the Royal Palace, Turin, 1 842 (Sm., who valued it at 600). 766. A BATTLE BETWEEN CAVALRY AND IN- FANTRY. Sm. Suppl. 241. A hilly landscape with a castle in the middle distance. A battle rages over the whole scene. In the centre foreground two troopers on a grey horse and a bay attack with their swords two infantrymen who defend themselves with their muskets. Two men lie dead at their feet ; behind them are a dead horse and its rider. A soldier kneels to fire at a horseman who is aiming his gun. On the other side, a trumpeter on a grey horse and a negro on a bay horse gallop through a stream ; the negro's horse is wounded by the pursuers. A fine and well-preserved picture. Panel, 21 inches by 26 inches.