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Painting of a cavalry battlefield with mounted officers, artillery, birch trees, and smoke rising over rolling hills.

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Battle of Tarutino on 6 (18) October 1812, Peter von Hess (1847), Hermitage Museum. Via artnap.com

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A wide battlefield scene of mounted cavalry, infantry, and artillery moving across open ground under a pale blue sky, with birch trees framing the foreground. In the centre, a group of officers on horseback gathers near a banner, while wounded and fallen soldiers lie in the grass at lower left and right. Smoke rises from distant gunfire along the horizon. The painting is Battle of Tarutino on 6 (18) October 1812 by Peter von Hess, dated 1847, held by the Hermitage Museum.

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