In 1799, having escaped from the besieged city of Genoa, Gros made his way to Paris, and in the beginning of 1801 took up his quarters in the Capucins. His esquisse (mock-up), now in the Musée d'Arts de Nantes, for the painting of the Battle of Nazareth gained the prize offered in 1802 by the consuls, but the project was not carried out, owing, it is said, to Napoleon's jealousy of Jean-Andoche Junot, the general in the painting. But Gros was indemnified by a commission to paint Napoleon's own visit to the pest-house of Jaffa, which resulted in "Les Pestiférés de Jaffa", now hanging in the Louvre. This was followed in 1806 by Gros's "Bataille d’Aboukir, 25 Juillet 1799" (Joachim Murat at the Battle of Abukir) now at Versailles; and in 1808 by his "Napoléon sur le champ de bataille d'Eylau, le 9 février 1807" (Napoleon at the battlefield after the Battle of Eylau) now in the Louvre. According to the "Encyclopædia Britannica" Eleventh Edition, "these three subjects – the popular leader facing the pestilence unmoved, challenging the splendid instant of victory, heart-sick with the bitter cost of a hard-won field – gave Gros his chief title to fame."