17 Facts About Antoine-Jean Gros

Antoine-Jean Gros was granted the title of Baron Gros in 1824.

Antoine-Jean Gros now devoted himself wholly to his profession, and he competed in 1792 for the grand prix.

Around this time on the recommendation of the Ecole des Beaux Arts, he painted portraits of the members of the National Convention, but as the Revolution developed, Antoine-Jean Gros left France in 1793 for Italy.

Antoine-Jean Gros visited Florence and returned to Genoa, where he met Josephine de Beauharnais.

In 1797, Antoine-Jean Gros was charged with selecting the spoils for the Louvre.

In 1799, Antoine-Jean Gros left Genoa and made his way to Paris.

Antoine-Jean Gros was commissioned to paint Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa, which is in the Louvre.

At the Salon of 1804, Antoine-Jean Gros debuted his painting Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa.

Antoine-Jean Gros is portrayed reaching out to one of the sick, unfazed by the illness.

Morse adds that Antoine-Jean Gros was probably using the disease as a metaphor for the vanity of Napoleon and his First Empire.

In 1835, out of sympathy with the rising tide of Romanticism and after the failure of his Hercules and Diomedes at the Salon of 1835, Antoine-Jean Gros committed suicide by drowning.

Antoine-Jean Gros was made a member of the Legion of Honour on 22 October 1808 by Napoleon, after the Salon of 1808, where he had exhibited the Battle of Eylau.

Antoine-Jean Gros had many pupils and gained considerably more after David left Paris in 1815.

Under the Bourbon Restoration, Antoine-Jean Gros became a member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts, a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and a member of the Order of Saint Michael.

Antoine-Jean Gros was granted the title of baron in 1824 by King Charles X of France.

Antoine-Jean Gros inspired Eugene Delacroix, especially with his work in lithography.

However, at one point, Antoine-Jean Gros had referred to Delacroix's Chios and Missolonghi as "a massacre of art".