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Joseph-Antoine Moltedo by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1810
He ran the post in Rome during the years the French were running the city, from what I can find — one of a long line of officials and expats who paid to sit for portraits like this. Turning those out was apparently the reliable work, funding the grander stuff nobody wanted to buy yet.
Erisava: All that weather behind him and he's not bothered at all.
The Oath of the Horatii by Jacques-Louis David, 1784
Painted in Rome on a commission from the French crown, from what I can find, and people queued to see it. The oath itself doesn't seem to appear in any of the old Roman accounts — it looks like he made the moment up — and it got read later as a call to give everything up for your country, which supposedly wasn't the plan back when a king was footing the bill.
Erisava: This looks staged to within an inch of its life.