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 502 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. mounted trumpeter blows his trumpet. Behind him, in the middle dis- tance, cavalry are attacking. On the left an enemy shoots a standard- bearer in the back. Next to him two horsemen attack each other with swords. In front of them a horse gallops into water on the extreme left ; his rider has fallen to the ground. In the distance two trumpeters are blowing their trumpets. A fortified castle and a town. [Probably identical with 772.] Signed on the right at foot with the monogram ; canvas, 46 inches by 58 inches. Sale. Cardinal Fesch, Rome, March 17, 1845, No. 255 (4500 scudi, Farrer). Sold by Farrer to the Earl of Ellesmere (for 2100). A Cavalry Fight. Sm. Suppl. 59. Cavalry are fighting hand to hand in the foreground. A man in a buff jerkin on a grey horse gallops against an enemy on a bay horse. Two others are fighting near them ; one of them falls back mortally wounded. [Pendant to 870. Compare 779/^] Panel, 12 inches by 15^ inches. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1842 (Sm., who valued it at 200) ; it was no longer there. 775*. A Fight at a Bridge. On a bridge near a burning fortress, cavalry attack a standard-bearer. In the foreground lie many dead and wounded. Canvas, 36 inches by 45 inches. Sale. S. A. Koopman, Utrecht, April 9, 1847, No. 40. 776. CAVALRY CHARGING INFANTRY. Sm. 475 and Suppl. 185. Troops are in movement over an open landscape, partly veiled by smoke. In the left centre of the foreground a young man on a bay horse strikes with the butt-end of his pistol at a foot-soldier in a cuirass who presses on him from the left with his sword. To the left of them and nearer the front, a mounted cuirassier with a blue sash rides a piebald horse, with his back to the spectator ; he fires his carbine at two foot-soldiers on the left, who are firing at him. A dead horse lies in front of him ; the rider, wounded in the head, stands with uplifted arms, facing the spectator, and seems about to collapse. In the centre foreground are a fallen horse and a dead man. On the right, three horsemen gallop to the right. The man on the left of them, riding a bay horse, fires at the second, nearer the spectator, who turns and fires. The third on the extreme right is farther back ; his horse's head is cut off by the frame ; he is firing to the left. A castle stands at the foot of a hill in the left distance. "This excellent picture was painted in the artist's middle time " (Sm.). Canvas, 22 inches by 25 inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosite", ii. 425. In the collection of the Duchesse de Berry, 1829 (Sm.) ; exhibited for private sale in London, 1834 (priced at 700 but not sold).