 Blanchard won the Prix de Rome scholarship in 1868.His topics were landscapes with nudes similar to his teacher Cabanel.His works included "The Death of Astyanax" (1868) at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, "Hylas Driven By the Nymbhs" (1874) at the Musée des beaux-arts de Caen which would be destroyed in 1944 and "Herodias" (1874) at the Salon des artistes français (French Artist's Hall) as well as "The Gods and the Mortals" which was displayed at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris in 2004.