Vibrato. It’s the same in vocals, changing pitch quickly in a way that sort of sounds like a vibration, though the technique itself is not called vibration.
What had inspired him to paint his ground breaking painting was from when he had saw the African and Iberian art
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.