C. intense complementary colors are placed side by side
Composition in art provides artists with guidelines, helping their art to be understood by the public.
This shows when Napoleon visits on March 11, 1799 for his sick soldiers which were located at the Plague that Strikened in Jaffa, It was an attempt to put down shady rumors after Napoleon ordered that 50 incurable dying plague victims in Jaffa to be poisoned during his retreat from his Syrian expedition.
This is what basically the painting was all about.