In the context of The Defense of Champigny, explain the On display of the History.
Detaille originally painted his scene of the battle as part of a wider project to produce a panoramic painting of the battle. His preliminary painting from 1879, titled The Defense of Champigny, is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Detaille successfully completed a massive 52 × 400 ft panorama (titled the Battle of Champigny) in 1882, but over the years said work was divided into multiple smaller paintings. The fragment of the panorama that mirrors The Defense of Champigny was auctioned off to a private buyer in 2012.
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