Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I ako a Gros i raro i a Jacques-Louis David i Paris ka tiimata tana mahi toi motuhake i te wa o te French Revolution. I akina ia ki te wehe atu i Parani, ka neke ia ki Genoa ka kite i te tata
Te Pakanga o Arcole (1796). I whakaaweahia e tētahi takahanga i te pakanga, ka hangaia e ia he whakaahua o te rangatira o Wīwī, ko Napoleon Bonaparte, i taua wā he hōia hou. I kawea mai e te whakaahua a Gros ki te aro o te iwi me te tautoko a Napoleon.