The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Müller, Charles Louis

MÜLLER, Charles Louis, French painter: b. Paris, 22 Dec. 1815; d. there, 10 Jan. 1892. He was the pupil of L. Cogniet, Baron Gros and others in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and in 1850 was made director of the manufactory of Gobelin tapestries. His fertility in the production of historic pictures and portraits was amazing. Among them are &lsquo;Heliogahalus&rsquo; (1841); &lsquo;Primavera&rsquo; (1846); &lsquo;May-day&rsquo;; &lsquo;Lady Macbeth&rsquo;; and his masterpiece, &lsquo;The Last Victims to the Reign of Terror&rsquo;; the last two being in the Luxembourg; &lsquo;Vive l'Empereur&rsquo; (1855); &lsquo;Marie Antoinette&rsquo; (1857); &lsquo;A Mass During the Reign of Terror&rsquo; (1863); &lsquo;The Madness of King Lear&rsquo; (1875); &lsquo;Mater Dolorosa&rsquo; (1877). He executed the frescoes of the Salle d'Etat in the Louvre, and

as a painter is more to be commended for clever drawing and composition than for his somewhat flat and mediocre coloring. In 1864 he became a member of the Institute.