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 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" (1875), "Mater Dolorosa" (1877), "The Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew" and "The Massacre of the Innocents".