White muslin, firm outlines and Roman hills
Neoclassicism
Rome and Paris, from about 1760 to 1830, when painters looked back to ancient sculpture and drew a clear, firm line. Batoni’s young man in a red coat beside a gilded table, Mengs’s portrait of the scholar Winckelmann with an open book, Villers’s young woman drawing against a bright window, Talleyrand at his desk and his wife in white, and Simon Denis’s small oil sketches of the hills at Tivoli, painted out of doors.
As a puzzle
Mostly portraits, and they behave well. Faces, a red coat, a red turban and gold braid give you strong places to begin, and the furniture and the folds of white muslin follow. The slow stretches are the plain brown and green grounds behind the sitters and the pale skies of the Italian sketches, wide and nearly even. Keep the count moderate.
A good size here: 50–200 pieces.
Subjects here: PortraitsLandscapesMountainsRivers and Lakes
16 pictures, pick one to build
Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868) Marie Denise Villers, 1801 
Study for "Portrait of an Indian" Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson, ca. 1807 
A Woman Seated on a Balustrade Marie Denise Villers, ca. 1801 
Edmond Cavé (1794–1852) Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1844 
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) Anton Raphael Mengs, ca. 1777 
Portrait of a Young Man Pompeo Batoni, ca. 1760–65 
The Banks of the Rance, Brittany Pierre Henri de Valenciennes, possibly 1785 
Allegory of Smell Joseph Marie Vien, 1775–81 
Mountainous Landscape at Tivoli Simon Denis, ca. 1786–97 
View on the Quirinal Hill, Rome Simon Denis, 1800 
Madame Edmond Cavé (Marie-Elisabeth Blavot, ca. 1806–1883) Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, ca. 1831–34 
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent Baron François Gérard, 1808 
Waterfall at Mont-Dore Achille-Etna Michallon, 1818 
Mountainous Landscape at Vicovaro Simon Denis, ca. 1786–97 
Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1761–1835) Baron François Gérard, ca. 1804 
Fortified Wall at Tivoli Simon Denis, ca. 1786–1806