Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Mushure me "Varwi" vake (1848) akatanga "Zuva muna June", iro rakanga risati rapera, uye akaratidzira "A Smoker" (1849) uye "Bravos" ("Les Bravi", 1852). Muna 1855 akabata chiratidzo chakakwirira chebudiriro yake ne"The Gamblers" uye "The Quarrel" ("La Rixe"), iyo yakapiwa naNapoleon III kuDare reEngland. Kubudirira kwake kwakaramba kuripo paSalon ya1857, paakaratidzira mifananidzo mipfumbamwe, uye mifananidzo; pakati pavo "Jaya reNguva yeRegency", "The Painter", "The Shoeing Smith", "The Musician", uye "A Reading at Diderot's". Apo, muzhizha ra 1859, Mambo Napoleon III, pamwe chete naVictor Emmanuel II Mambo wePiedmont neSardinia, vakaedza kudzinga vaHabsburg munharaunda dzavo muItaly yokuchamhembe, Meissonier akagamuchira basa rehurumende rokuratidza zviitiko zvomushandirapamwe wacho. "Mambo Napoleon III paSolferino" akatora Meissonier makore anopfuura matatu kuti apedze. Basa racho, chiitiko chehondo, raimiririra chimwe chinhu chokuenda kumunyori we "bonshommes" uye musketeers kunyange zvazvo Meissonier akanga atonyora zviitiko zvechisimba uye kuuraya, zvakadai se "Remembrance of Civil War", uye muna 1848
akanga aona basa chairo somukuru mukuru muNational Guard, apo akarwa parutivi rwehurumende yeRepublican mukati me"Mazuva aJune". Mumatsutso a1861 akasarudzwa kuva sachigaro muInstitut de France apo nhengo dzeAcadémie des Beaux-Arts dzakamusarudzira kuti abatane nenhamba yavo. KuSalon ya1861 akatumira "A Shoeing Smith", "A Musician", "A Painter", uye "M. Louis Fould"; kune ya1864 "The Emperor at Solferino", uye "1814". Iye gare gare akaratidzira "A Gamblers' Quarrel" (1865) uye "Desaix uye Hondo yeRhine" (1867).