The end of the regime sees the decline of davidienne aesthetics and its main representatives, little by little the painters abandon ancient subjects and turn to topics of medieval inspiration, that characterize a new pictorial style: troubadour painting. At the restoration, several artists rallied to the Bourbon regime and serve the King Louis XVIII, whose big, Gérard, Girodet, former students of David, while this one is exiled to Brussels for having voted for the death of Louis XVI and served Napoleon.