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Charles Louis Müller (also known as Müller de Paris) (Paris 22 December 1815 – 10 January 1892 Paris) was a French painter.
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), Haydée[1] (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).[2] [3] [4] 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[5] (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,[6] and for the ceiling of the Salon Denon.[7]