Halévy was elected to the Institut de France in 1836, but after "La Juive", his real successes were relatively few, although at least three operas, "L'Éclair", "La reine de Chypre" and "Charles VI" received some critical and popular acclaim. Heine commented that Halévy was an artist, but "without the slightest spark of genius". He became, however, a leading bureaucrat of the arts, becoming Secretary of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and presiding over committees to determine the standard pitch of orchestral A, to award prizes for operettas, etc. The artist Eugène Delacroix described Halévy's decline in his diaries (5 February 1855):