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61-foot-long Chinese Imperial handscroll from 1760s sells for $65 million at auction (edition.cnn.com)

The handscroll is the work of Xu Yang, who was recruited as a court painter by the Qianlong Emperor in the 1750s and it depicts scenes in Beijing during the aftermath of a military campaign.

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