Antoine-Jean Gros
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Antoine-Jean Gros (1771–1835)—a pupil of Jacques-Louis David and a history painter in Napoleon's employ who never traveled to the Near East himself—conveys this idea in Napoleon in the Plague House at Jaffa(1804; Musée du Louvre, Paris), featuring an Eastern architectural setting and figures in exotic dress. A propagandizing work, it depicts the then-general's visit to plague-afflicted prisoners during the siege of Jaffa.
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