Horses rear and crash, bodies tumble in the foreground dust, and through it all the young Bonaparte rides high on a white charger — Félix Philippoteaux's Battle of Rivoli, 14 January 1797, one of the Italian Campaign's most decisive moments, comes alive in this striking sepia art postcard, card no. 67 in the celebrated LL Versailles series by Lévy et Neurdein Réunis. Rivoli was the battle that cemented the twenty-seven-year-old general's reputation: outnumbered, he used the broken terrain of the Adige valley to destroy five Austrian columns in a single day, leaving the road to Mantua — and ultimately to his own legend — wide open. Philippoteaux rendered the mayhem with visceral energy, the foreground littered with the fallen while Napoleon charges toward the viewer seemingly untouchable, a figure already becoming myth. This unused example shows crisp halftone detail and only light age browning to the stock.