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*Benjamin West, Death of General Wolfe, 1771

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*Jacques Louis David, Oaths of Horatii, 1784

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*Jacques Louis David, The Coronation of Napoleon, 1805 – 1808 20 x 32 feet, oil on canvas

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*Ingres, Apotheosis of Homer, 1827