sentences:  He painted a portrait of Hector Berlioz at the Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici, during the composer's stay upon his winning the Grand Prix de Rome in 1830.Signol had won the grand prize for the same competition's painting category with "Titulus Crucis".In 1842 he painted "The Death of Saphira" for the Church of the Madeleine, and was subsequently commissioned to decorate the churches of Saint Roch, Saint Sévérin, Saint Eustace, and Saint Augustin.