His grave has disappeared; it was in division 17 (approximately where it is shown on the map) of the Montparnasse cemetery. The bones were taken to Père Lachaise.

A sergeant in a marching battalion in 1870, he sent drawings of the horrors of war. Under the Paris Commune, he became captain of a company of Federated National Guards. He was also a member of the Federal Commission of Artists elected on 17 April 1871.

In 1871, he lived at 3, rue Campagne-Première, in Paris, in the XIVth arrondissement, very close to here.

After the Commune, he was interned for six months at the Satory camp and at the Orangerie in Versailles with Gustave Courbet.

In his engravings, he described the daily life of workers and the misery of the "Parisian underworld". But it was at his studio, rue Vandamne, in Montparnasse, that he worked. His friend Bernard Prost described him as follows: "Jealous of his independence, he never wanted to owe anything to anyone. Disdainful of publicity, he lived in isolation [...] shunning both the coteries dear to turbulent mediocrities and the salons where, in the absence of talent, the fleeting illusion of fame is dispensed".

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