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The Musée d'Orsay has published a detailed catalogue entry for Ernest Meissonier's oil-on-wood painting 'L'Empereur à la bataille de Solférino' (1863), which depicts Napoleon III at the 1859 Battle of Solferino.
On October 13, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac published an essay by critic Jonathan Jones on Georg Baselitz, the German painter who died this year, in connection with the London exhibition of his 'The Heroes' history paintings, which he helped plan.
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