
Meet Antoine-Jean Gros, the original spin doctor of the art world and Napoleon Bonaparte’s personal hype man. A student of the very serious Neoclassicist Jacques-Louis David, Gros was a secret romantic, drawn to the passionate colors of Rubens. He shot to fame painting Napoleon leading armies and calming plague victims, essentially creating the Emperor's heroic brand. A fabulous (and possibly fictitious) rumor insists that to paint the restless Napoleon for *Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole*, Joséphine had to plop the general onto her lap to make him sit still. After Napoleon’s exit, Gros’s mojo vanished. Torn between his master's severe style and the Romanticism he helped ignite, and plagued by critics, he made a dramatic exit by drowning himself in the Seine.
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