He became a pupil of Michel-Julien Gué, and afterwards travelled in France, Spain, Egypt, and Palestine, for the purpose of making illustrations for Baron Taylors Voyages pittoresques et romantiques de lancienne Prance, 1820-63; Voyage pittoresque en Espagne, en Portugal, et sur la côte dAfrique, de Tanger à Tetouan, 1826-32; La Syrie, IEgypte, la Palestine et la Judée, 1835-39, and other books.
He was a frequent exhibitor at the Salon of genre subjects and interiors of churches, and was also a lithographer. He died in Paris in 1868.