48.9 x 80.7 cm. (19.3 x 31.8 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

Paintings of the time show him returning to France, grandly victorious, with a star of destiny shining over his ship. By the time Napoleon returned to France from Egypt in August 1799, he was famous.

It was a meeting between the Europe of the future and the Egypt of the past. HORWARD: Napoleon just organized his army into five gigantic squares. These are men kneeling and standing and firing so ...

In 1809, the painting was looted from Belvedere Palace in Vienna by Napoleon’s army. 1878 was the last time Rest on the Flight into Egypt appeared at auction. Christie’s London sold the ...