The Combat of Mars and Minerva (1771) - Joseph-Benoit Suvee (1743-1807)The Children of Niobe Killed

The Combat of Mars and Minerva (1771) - Joseph-Benoit Suvee (1743-1807)

The Children of Niobe Killed by Diana and Apollo (1772) - Pierre-Charles Jombert (1748-1825)

The Death of Seneca (1773) - Jean-Francois Pierre Peyron (1744-1814)

The works which beat out Jacques-Louis David’s first three attempts to win the Prix de Rome from the French Royal Academy.  Peyron’s painting has been lost to history and only preliminary drawings survive.