Napoleon Visiting the Pesthouse at Jaffa

…of such historical paintings as Napoleon Visiting the Pesthouse at Jaffa (1804) and Napoleon on the Battlefield at Eylau, February 1807 (1808) influenced Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix.

…is well illustrated by Gros’s Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa (1804), where he is endowed with godlike authority and the humanitarian sensibility of the true Romantic hero. At the same time, other artists—such as Gérard, Girodet-Trioson, and Ingres—readily responded to the Emperor’s admiration for the stories of Ossian.