Hippolyte Bellangé’s “Scene from the Napoleonic Wars” sold at auction in Vienna in 2016

Not the most typical sketch for the battle genre. This picture by the French battle painter Hippolyte Bellangé (1800-1866), "Scene from the Napoleonic Wars", seems to capture a far from joyful meeting between a convoy of civilians and a party of soldiers. The horse with a bayonet pressed to its rump also arouses great pity. Bellangé's canvas, not among his best-known and quite small, at just 37*45 cm, was sold at auction in Vienna in 2016 for a little over $4,000.

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The stone Triumphal Arch on Gorky Street in Moscow in the 1930s.

Bove's Triumphal Arch on Tverskaya in Moscow, dismantled in 1936 and rebuilt on Kutuzovsky Prospekt

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Archaeologists find a signet ring depicting the lighthouse in Alexandria harbour

British author finds her autism in “Amélie” as the post's author voices doubts

Mesolithic hunter-gatherer camp found in Tina Jama cave near Trieste

Bove's Triumphal Arch on Tverskaya in Moscow, dismantled in 1936 and rebuilt on Kutuzovsky Prospekt