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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.