Pierre-Antoine Demachy

In 1764, his trompe-l'œil paintings for the façade of the new Church of Sainte-Geneviève (now the Panthéon) earned him an appointment as the decorator of stage sets for the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi.

His classes were so popular that, in 1777, the Comte d'Angiviller wrote a letter to the Académie's Director, Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, complaining that Demachy's students were "polluting the corridors" of the Louvre.

Ironically, six years later, Pierre asked the Comte to write a letter to Demachy, informing him that he had been granted an annual pension of 500 Livres.

The following year, he applied for and received the position of Professor of Perspective, recently left vacant by the death of Jacques Sébastien Leclerc.

[3] He dutifully created a work depicting the "Burning of Feudal Titles and the Attributes of Tyranny".