Muller’s orthodox, highly academic painting – exemplified in his Salon entry of 1850, The roll-call of the last victims of the Terror- enjoyed immediate public success. He was commissioned to decorate a number of ceilings in the Louvre, notably four compositions representing periods in the history of French art (under St Louis, François I, Louis XIV and Napoleon I); eight symbolic figures; and Fame distributing her palms and crowns, on the cupola of the Mollien staircase.

 Ajaccio: Lady Macbeth

Amiens (Mus. de Picardie): Lady Macbeth

Carcassonne: André Chénier at the Conciergerie

Le Havre: Young girl with a goat

Lille: The madness of Haydée; The game; Give us Barabbas

London (Wallace Collection): An Odalisque (c. 1850s, oil on canvas)

Lyons (MBA): The exile of young Irish Catholic women; Napoleon’s mother

Mulhouse: Beauty

Paris (Mus. du Petit Palais): Enfranchisement of the communes

Versailles: Roll-call of the condemned under the Terror; Opening session of the Senate; Roll-call of the last victims of the Terror

Paris, 24 May 1991: Study, Taste (oil on canvas, a pair, each 35½ × 20 ins/90 × 51 cm) FRF 75,000

Monaco, 21 June 1991: Young peasant girl picking petals from a daisy, beside a young soldier (oil on canvas, 57½ × 46 ins/146 × 116 cm) FRF 55,500

New York, 20 Feb 1992: Bathing in the sea (oil on canvas, 41¾ × 29¾ ins/106 × 75.6 cm) USD 9,900

London, 17 June 1992: Young soubrette listening at the drawing-room door (oil on canvas, 38½ × 28¼ ins/98 × 72 cm) GBP 3,300

Paris, 15 Dec 1994: Portrait, thought to be of the actress Rachel (oil on canvas, 51¼ × 36¼ ins/130 × 92 cm) FRF 25,000

Paris, 29 Jan 1996: Ophelia (pastel, 32¼ × 25½ ins/82 × 65 cm) FRF 5,500

Amsterdam, 22 April 1997: Lady reclining upon a sofa (oil on canvas, 38¼ × 31 ins/97 × 79 cm) NLG 42,480

New York, 9 Feb 1999: Mother’s ride (oil on canvas, 41 × 33 ins/105 × 84 cm) USD 31,000

London, 17 June 1999: Eastern Beauty (oil on canvas, 28 × 22 ins/71 × 55 cm) GBP 9,000

London, 29 March 2001: La ronde du mai (c. 1846-7, oil on canvas, 61 × 84 ins/156 × 214 cm) GBP 30,000

London, 11 July 2001: Portrait of a Young Man, possibly M Aucanne (black chalk heightened with white, 22 × 17 ins/55 × 43 cm) GBP 5,500

Michigan, 15 Jan 2003: Girl in Landscape (oil on canvas, 37 × 26 ins/94 × 66 cm) USD 8,500

Radolfzell, 3 July 2004: Spinner Woman in Traditional Italian Dress (1862, oil on canvas, 28 × 20 ins/70 × 50 cm) EUR 5,000