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One ofthese goes back to the time when Louis XVIII. , then a youth, enlivenedthe sittings for his portrait by singing, quite out of tune. "How doyou think I sing?" inquired he. "Like a prince, " responded the amiableartist. With Antoine Jean Gros we come to the last and the greatest of thepupils of David. Born in Paris March 16, 1771, he competed but once, in 1792, for the Prix de Rome, was unsuccessful, but undertook thevoyage thither on his own slender resources the next year. Italy wasin a t...roubled state--he who troubled all Europe in the early yearsof the century being there at the head of his army; and in 1796, atGenoa, Gros attracted the attention of Madame Bonaparte. It was shewho proposed that Gros should paint Napoleon; and Gros consequentlywent to Milan, and after the battle of Arcole painted the herocarrying the tricolor across the bridge at the head of his grenadiers. The picture pleased Bonaparte, who had it engraved, and gave Gros acommission to collect for the Louvre the chief artistic treasures ofItaly.
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