Charles Monnet

Although he never became a full academian, on July 27, 1765 he was made a provisional member of the Académie Royale,[3] where he won first prize for the painting, Nabucliodonosor faisant crever les yeux à Sédicias et faisant massacrer ses enfants.

He became "one of the best vignettists of his time" and well-known for his work as an illustrator, notably for an edition of Fables de La Fontaine published by Fessard.

[6][7] Painted in polychrome enamels by highly skilled artisans using a method of garniture, several were purchased for Versailles by King Louis XVI in 1781.

[12] He also illustrated scenes from the history of the First French Empire and (with Jean-Michel Moreau, Clément-Pierre Marillier and Pietro Antonio Martini); Voltaire's Romans et contes of 1778; and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons dangereuses in its 1796 London edition.

[citation needed] He exhibited regularly at the Salon and ended his career as a drawing professor at the military École de Saint-Cyr.