Charles-Frédéric Soehnée

Charles-Frédéric Soehnée (3 November 1789, in Landau in der Pfalz as Carl-Friederich Söhne – 1 May 1878, in Le Pré-Saint-Gervais in Paris) was a French painter.

In Paris Soehnée studied under the neoclassical painter Anne Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson.

In 1818, he executed a group of more than one hundred drawings, watercolors, and at least one lithograph, most of which depict grotesque scenes of imaginary beasts and travelers against the backdrop of desert landscapes.

culminating in a technical treatise published in 1822 where he disputed the commonly held belief that Jan van Eyck invented oil painting.

Soehnée possessed a collection of drawings from Baroque painter Joseph Parrocel (1646–1704), which are now owned by the Louvre.