Jean-Paul Laurens was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style.
Self-portrait
Jean-Paul Laurens by Auguste Rodin 1881, Albertinum, Dresden
In 1870, the year when the newly created Kingdom of Italy carried out the Capture of Rome and put an end to the Pope's temporal power, Laurens made this painting of the Cadaver Synod
Léon Cogniet was a French history and portrait painter. He is probably best remembered as a teacher, with more than one hundred notable students.
Léon Cogniet. Self-portrait c. 1818
Cogniet in 1865
Helen Rescued by Castor and Pollux, 1817
Jean-François Champollion, 1831