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), HaydéeIn the Lille Museum. (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).The last two are in the Luxembourg.John Jacob Astor IV had a replica of the last in his collection.{{cite web |title=Appel des dernières victimes de la Terreur à la prison Saint Lazare |url=http://www.histoire-image.org/site/oeuvre/analyse.php?i=476 |website=Réunion du Musées Nationaux - Grand Palais |accessdate=12 July 2014|language=fr}} 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 PrisonAt one time this was the most copied painting in the Corcoran Gallery of Washington, D.C., which deaccessioned the painting in 1979; see Sarah Cash, editor, [https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/corcoran-american-art.pdf 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, [https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3542&context=etd 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 frescoes for the Salle d'État and the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre,According to French Wikipedia (visited 22 March 2013), these works were all destroyed by fire, and the Mona Lisa resides in that location now. and for the ceiling of the Salon Denon.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).

File:Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne - Appel des dernières victimes de la terreur dans la prison de saint Lazare.7, 9 thermidor 1794 - Charles Louis MULLER.jpg|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

File:Lille PdBA muller folie d'aydee.JPG|The Madness of Haydée, scene from The Count of Monte Cristo (1848)

File:Charles-Lucien-Louis Muller (1815-92) - The Reception of Queen Victoria by Napoleon III at St Cloud, 18 August 1855 - RCIN 404893 - Royal Collection.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 (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)

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• {{Americana|wstitle=Müller, Charles Louis |year=1920}}
• {{Cite NIE|wstitle=Müller, Charles Louis |year=1905}}
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• Details regarding Müller's Charlotte Corday in Prison at the Smithsonian [https://siris-artexhibition.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=aeciall&source=~%21siaeci&uri=full%3D3100016~%2178746~%210 Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index].
• {{Cite web|url=http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=16337|title=Charles-Louis MÜLLER|accessdate=16 May 2011|publisher=cartelfr.louvre.fr}} Decoration for the ceiling of the Denon room at the Louvre, commissioned in 1862, executed 1863–1866.

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