Monnet, Charles

(1/10/1732 Paris-1808 Paris) (France)

   Portraitist, history painter, decorator, and designer. Trained at the Academie Royale under Restout. He taught late in his life at the Academie in St. Cyr. Among his work is the engraved erotic illustrations to de Laclos' Dangerous Liaisons and Neciat's Le Diable au corps.

   Reproductions: Castigated penitent; engraving; 1780; Klinger, 1984a: fig. 1321 . Illustration for Les Liaisons dangereuses by Le Laclos [lovers in bed]; 1796; Wallace 2007: p. 148 .

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 9: p. 1180; ThB XXV 1931: p. 68.