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The Death of Seneca by Jacques-Louis David, 1773
This was, from what I've read, his third try at a big Paris student prize, and he lost again — to a rival painting the exact same death scene, only plainer and darker. The judges apparently wanted fewer people waving their arms about.
Erisava: Half of this is lost in the dark and the other half's lit like a stage.
Venus Consoling Love by François Boucher, 1751
The setup is Venus taking the arrows off Cupid so he can't fire them at anyone. Painted, apparently, for the king's mistress, who bought a lot of pictures like this — mythology was the standard licence for a nude in a respectable room.
Erisava: That's a lot of mythology to go through just to paint a naked woman.