# Don Cossacks with French Captives

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## Artwork

- Artist: [HESS, Peter von](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hess-peter-von-r2191d69cb9dcd3>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Oil on panel, 39 x 50 cm

## Commentary

Painted in 1819, shortly after the Napoleonic War \(1799-1815\), this painting depicts a point at which the Cossacks are victorious over the French. The Cossacks, a semi-nomadic people, were famous as the vanguards of exploration and conquest in all the borderlands of the Russian Empire and aided the Russians greatly in their victory over Napoleon.

## Related artworks

- [The Entry of King Othon of Greece in Athens](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hess-peter-von-r2191d69cb9dcd3/the-entry-of-king-othon-of-greece-in-athens-r8c7a19003c2440>)
- [The Entry of King Othon of Greece into Nauplia](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hess-peter-von-r2191d69cb9dcd3/the-entry-of-king-othon-of-greece-into-nauplia-r2ddd46827b9a6a>)

## Attribution

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