Charles Louis Müller

He was the pupil of Léon Cogniet, Baron Gros and others in the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1837 he exhibited his first picture, Christmas Morning. From 1850 to 1853 he directed the manufactory of Gobelin tapestries. In 1864 he became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France, succeeding Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin.

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.

He executed frescoes for the Salle d'État and the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre,^[6] and for the ceiling of the Salon Denon.^[7]

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  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
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  The Madness of Haydée, scene from The Count of Monte Cristo (1848)
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  Arrival of the Queen of England at the Palace of Saint Cloud (1855)
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  Ceiling of the Salon Denon with frescoes by Müller (1863-1866)
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  The Tribunal of the National Convention (1868)
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  Charlotte Corday in Prison (1875), vintage postcard of the painting of unknown location^[5]
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  The Betrothed (by 1892)

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Müller, Charles Louis" . Encyclopedia Americana.
• Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Müller, Charles Louis" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
• Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). "Müller, Charles Louis" . The American Cyclopædia.

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• Details regarding Müller's Charlotte Corday in Prison at the Smithsonian Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index.
• "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.