He all but ceased painting, turning his energies instead to the Academy, pressing the pensionnaires to produce the envoies that were forwarded to Paris as proof of their progress and sending them out to draw in the countryside of the Roman campagna.
He largely stopped painting, redirecting his efforts to the Academy, urging the apprentices to create envoys that were sent to Paris as proof of their progress and sending them out to sketch in the countryside of the Roman campagna.