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Charles Louis Müller (also known as Müller de Paris) (Paris 22 December 1815 – 10 January 1892 Paris) was a French painter.

Biography

He was the pupil of

Léon Cogniet Léon Cogniet (29 August 1794 – 20 November 1880) was a French history and portrait painter. He is probably best remembered as a teacher, with more than one hundred notable students. Biography He was born in Paris. His father was a painter ...

Baron Gros Antoine-Jean Gros (; 16 March 177125 June 1835) was a French painter of historical subjects. He was given title of Baron Gros in 1824. Gros studied under Jacques-Louis David in Paris and began an independent artistic career during the French ...

and others in the

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. 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

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of the

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, succeeding

Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (23 March 1809 – 21 March 1864) was a French Neoclassical painter. His most celebrated work, '' Jeune Homme Nu Assis au Bord de la Mer'' ("Young Male Nude Seated beside the Sea"), from 1836, is held in the Louvre. Bio ...

Works

He was a fecund producer of historic pictures and portraits. Among his works are ''Heliogabalus'' (1841), ''Primavera'' (1846), ''Haydée'' (1848), ''Lady Macbeth'', and his masterpiece, ''Calling Out the Last Victims of the

Reign of Terror The Reign of Terror (french: link=no, la Terreur) was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, ...

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). 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''At one time this was the most copied painting in the

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of Washington, D.C., which deaccessioned the painting in 1979; see Sarah Cash, editor
''Corcoran Gallery of Art: American paintings to 1945''
2011, p. 43. While many copies exist, the current location of Müller's original painting is unknown; see Wierich, Jochen
''The domestication of history in American art: 1848-1876''
dissertation, College of William & Mary—Arts & Sciences, 1998, p. 108. (1875), ''Mater Dolorosa'' (1877), ''The Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew'' and ''The Massacre of the Innocents''. He executed

fresco Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaste ...

es for the Salle d'État and the

Galerie d'Apollon The Galerie d'Apollon is a large and iconic room of the Louvre Palace, on the first (upper) floor of a wing known as the Petite Galerie. Its current setup was first designed in the 1660s. It has been part of the Louvre Museum since the 1790s, was ...

in the

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, and for the ceiling of the Salon Denon.According to

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(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).

Gallery (chronological)

File:Charles-Louis Muller-Victimes de la terreur.jpg, ''Calling Out the Last Victims of the Terror at Saint Lazare Prison on the 7-9 Thermidor, Year II 5-27 July 1794' (1850),

Musée de la Révolution française The Musée de la Révolution française (Museum of the French Revolution) is a departments of France, departmental museum in the French town of Vizille, south of Grenoble on the Route Napoléon. It is the only museum in the world dedicated to the ...

File:Lille PdBA muller folie d'aydee.JPG, ''The Madness of Haydée'', scene from ''

The Count of Monte Cristo ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (french: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas (''père'') completed in 1844. It is one of the author's more popular works, along with ''The Three Musketeers''. Li ...

'' (1848) File:Victoria Napoléon 1855.jpg, ''Arrival of the Queen of England at the Palace of Saint Cloud'' (1855) File:Ceiling of the Salon Denon, Louvre 2011.jpg, Ceiling of the Salon Denon with frescoes by Müller (1863-1866) File:Muller - Lanjuinais à la tribune de la Convention.jpg, ''The Tribunal of the

National Convention The National Convention (french: link=no, Convention nationale) was the parliament of the Kingdom of France for one day and the French First Republic for the rest of its existence during the French Revolution, following the two-year National ...

'' (1868) File:Charlotte Corday in Prison, Charles Louis Muller (NYPL b12647398-70557) (cropped).tiff, ''Charlotte Corday in Prison'' (1875), vintage postcard of the painting of unknown location File:Charles Louis Lucien Muller The Betrothed.jpg, ''The Betrothed'' (by 1892)

References

Sources

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External links

* Details regarding Müller's ''Charlotte Corday in Prison'' at the Smithsonia
Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index
* Decoration for the ceiling of the Denon room at the Louvre, commissioned in 1862, executed 1863-1866. {{DEFAULTSORT:Muller, Charles Louis 1815 births 1892 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters Painters from Paris Pupils of Antoine-Jean Gros Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery 19th-century French male artists