Quelle 2: Chéry über Gros' Skizze Combat de Nazareth (Bild)

P. Chéry: Beaux-Arts. Peinture. Aux artistes qui ne déshonorent pa ce titre, in: Journal des batimens civils, V, 23. frimaire an X (14. Dezember 1801), S. 385-392, hier S. 387, zitiert nach Siegfried 1993, S. 254.

(Gros) has made the hero (Junot) only someone bringing up the rear, only a corporeal placed behind his men, who turns his head away from them, solely occupied with personally defending himself from two attackers. This is not, I repeat, this is not what constitutes the HERO.