5 i 4 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. 800. THE MISERIES OF WAR ; SWEDISH (?) SOLDIERS PLUNDERING A VILLAGE. Sm. 324 and Suppl. 121. A hilly landscape, with a river. In the middle distance are the houses of a village and windmills on the hill-tops, for the most part in flames. In the foreground soldiers are maltreating peasants. A man with bound arms begs mercy of a man on a grey horse j near him is his wife with two children in her arms. Another man on his knees receives a kick from a soldier standing behind. A trumpeter, an ensign, and a trooper on horseback are behind this group. On the right a woman and child weep over a dead man. A soldier pulls a monk along by the ear. The cattle are driven together on the river- bank to the left. Peasants with their cattle are escaping across the river in boats, in the distance. " Finished throughout with extraordinary care " (Sm.). [Pendant to 755. Compare 802.] Signed on the right at foot with the full monogram ; canvas, 20 inches by 31 inches. In the Electoral Gallery, Munich. In the Aeltere Pinakothek, Munich, 1904 catalogue, No. 507 (Sm. valued it in 1829 at .420, and in 1842 at j6oo). 801. THE MISERIES OF WAR; SOLDIERS PLUN- DERING A TOWN. Sm. 486 and Suppl. 235. A winding road leads from a burning town in the distance to the right foreground. Plundering horsemen drive cattle and prisoners forward in a long line. In the right foreground a man on a grey horse carries off" a woman behind him. In the centre two women kneel, imploring mercy of the horsemen to the left of them, the foremost of whom is followed by two peasants. Near them, on the extreme left, a woman kneels weeping beside her dead husband. On the right lies a dead woman ; behind her an officer and a woman tend a wounded man. A man fires a pistol ; a mounted trumpeter sounds his trumpet. "This fine picture is clear in tone and highly finished" (Sm.). [Pendant to 794.] Signed with the full monogram ; canvas, 23 inches by 32 inches. Mentioned by Waagen (iii. 208). Exhibited at Leeds, 1868, No. 862; and at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1882, No. 229. Sales. Ferdinand, Count von Plettenberg, Amsterdam, April 2, 1738 (Hoet, i. 500), No. 64 (800 florins). Domburgh, The Hague, 1745 (1400 florins, with pendant). J. B. van Lancker, Antwerp, 1835, No. 128 (14,500 francs, bought in). Lord Northwick, Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, May 12, 1838 (808, bought in). Lord Northwick, Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, July 26, 1859, No. 1509 (1086 : 155., Farrer). In the collection of Matthew Anderson, Jesmond Cottage, near Newcastle- on-Tyne, 1868. In the collection of Lord Penrhyn, Penrhyn Castle, No. 18. 802. SOLDIERS PLUNDERING A VILLAGE. In the
