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This good quality anecdote-like painting shows a mountain road scene somewhere in Spain. Here, we become witness to an episode from the so-called Peninsular War of 1807-1814 (Napoleonic France against the allied powers of Spain, Great Britain and Portugal).
Although unsigned, this painting is a very typical and authentic work of well-known French military artist of the 1st half of the 19th century, Hippolyte Bellange (comparison images convincingly confirm his authorship).

Hippolyte (Joseph-Louis-Hippolyte) Bellange (1800 Paris - 1866 Paris) began his art studies at the age of 16 in the studio of Jean-Antoine Gros (there he made acquaintance with his friend Nicolas-Toussant Charlet). In 1818 he became a member of Parisian École des Beaux-Arts, in 1824 he obtained a Medal of 2nd degree there. In 1834 he became Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, in 1861 - Chevalier of Belgian Order of Leopold. From 1837 to 1854 Bellange was conservator of the Rouen Museum.
At the urging of Charlet, Bellange first turned to lithography (in total he made over 500 works in this technique). Progressively he turned to oil paintings, most of all specializing on military scenes. With growing success of these paintings he lost interest in lithography, after 1834 there are only few works in this technique.
Works of his are to see in most important French and international museums (a.o. in the Louvre and Versailles).

P.S. 4 May 2015:
We have just received issue No. 60 of French military-historical magazine "Gloire & Empire /Revue de l'Histoire Napoleonienne" (Strassburg, May-June 2015) with a very interesting article by Yves Martin concerning this painting (see our images nr.11-12)

Provenance: German private collection