Over the next few years, he executed several commissions from King Louis-Philippe, including scenes from the Second Battle of Zurich and the Coup of 18 Brumaire.

The latter was given a special display at the Salon of 1840, on the occasion of Napoleon's ashes being returned to France.

daughter of the comic opera singer Luigi Lablache, whose portrait he had painted.

Shortly before his death, she left him to join her lover, the German painter Henri Lehmann, in Italy.

[2] He was preparing to paint murals for a new chapel at Luxembourg Palace, when he died suddenly.