Genre painting or portraits that reflect the life of the bourgeoise and their environment. His work is in a historiscist style that allows him to display his talent depicting the detailed garments of previous periods. In Barcelona they called this “anecdotism”, whereby realism would capture a snapshot of reality, an anecdote. Once in Paris, with the help of the art dealer Adolphe Goupil, he specialised in urban scenes of the upper bourgeoisie. A modern representation of social realism. His mundane and elegant scenes, in the Paris fashion, made him a leading figure of the Third French Republic and the Restoration in Catalonia.