There was a dramatic finale to the sale, when six people holding folders with Ministry of Public Finance letterhead entered ...

Among the top lots was a painting of Napoleon by Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse, which sold for 20 times its estimate at $1 million.

Hand painted oil reproduction of a Jacques-Louis David painting originally created in 1801, Napoleon Crossing the Alps. Today it has been carefully recreated detail-by-detail, color-by-color to near ...