He was a fecund producer of historic pictures and portraits. Among his works are Heliogabalus (1841), Primavera (1846), Haydée[1] (1848), Lady Macbeth, and his masterpiece, Calling Out the Last Victims of the
Reign of Terror at the Prison of Saint-Lazare (Appel des dernières victimes de la Terreur dans la prison de Saint-Lazare), with portraits of the most illustrious victims).[2][3][4] Also notable are Vive l'Empereur, based on a poem by Méry about an episode in the
battle before Paris, March 30, 1814 (1855), Marie Antoinette (1857), A Mass During the Reign of Terror (1863), Desdemona (1868), Lanjuinais at the Tribune (1869), The Madness of King Lear (1875), Charlotte Corday in Prison[5] (1875), Mater Dolorosa (1877), The Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew and The Massacre of the Innocents.
Calling Out the Last Victims of the Terror at Saint Lazare Prison on the 7-9 Thermidor, Year II [25-27 July 1794] (1850),
Musée de la Révolution française
^According to
French Wikipedia (visited 22 March 2013), these works were all destroyed by fire, and the
Mona Lisa resides in that location now.
^According to
French Wikipedia (visited 12 July 2014), painted between 1863 and 1866, representing four important French sovereigns prior to Napoleon III (also, see External Links for direct link to Louvre description).
"Charles-Louis MÜLLER". cartelfr.louvre.fr. Retrieved 16 May 2011. Decoration for the ceiling of the Denon room at the Louvre, commissioned in 1862, executed 1863-1866.