The Prix de Rome allowed him to study for five years in Rome. While there, he created several paintings, increasing his celebrity both in France and Italy. His painting "St. Clair Healing the Blind" was created for Nantes Cathedral, and at the exhibition of 1855 years later, it also brought him a medal of the first class; this painting was destroyed in the fire which took place at Nantes Cathedral on 18 July 2020. "Jesus and the Little Children" was given by the government to the town of Lisieux. "Dante and Virgil visiting the Envious Men struck with Blindness" and "Euripides writing his Tragedies" are now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon.