Nymph, circa 1900
Oil on canvas
54 x 81 cm
Provenance: Workshop of the artist
impressionist painter Wilfrid de Glehn. Son of Gustave Louis Monod and Louise Catherine Armand-Delille, Lucien Monod comes from a family originating in Switzerland and of Reformed tradition, settled in France since 1808. The Monod family includes many pastors: Lucien is the first to devote himself to the arts. From 1886 to 1889, he attended the Académie Julian, notably the studio of Puvis de Chavannes. From 1891, he joined the National Society of Fine Arts and exhibited regularly at the Salon des artistes français. In 1899, La Voix des sources, a lithograph after a poem by Henri de Régnier was published in L'Estampe moderne. He also contributed to the art magazine The Studio. Married in 1892 to Suzanne Robineau (1868-1893), daughter of his cousin Hélène Stapfer-Robineau, who died giving birth to their daughter Juliette. Lucien Monod also had a son in 1900, Philippe. In 1896, he married American Charlotte Todd McGregor. The couple had a child in 1910, Jacques; the family moved to Cannes in 1917 in a house that Lucien had built. Among other portraits, he composed an engraving of James George Frazer (1933). Lucien Monod is the author of an important series of studies on the market for prints published by the art publisher Albert Morancé from 1920 to 1931 in 9 volumes: Aide-mémoire for amateurs and professionals: the price of prints, old and modern, prices achieved in sales - suites and states, biographies and bibliographies. It includes, among other things, one of the first monographs on the engravings of Félix Vallotton.