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.
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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-
