Friend of Edouard Manet who included him in 1860 in his painting "Music at the Tuileries", Charles Monginot (1825-1900) began his career at the Salon of 1850. A great painter of still lifes and genre scenes, this painter and engraver was a student of Thomas Couture, whose workshop, opened in 1848, competed with the School of Fine Arts in Paris. Monginot preceded Manet who himself, and despite sometimes conflicting relations with Couture, stayed there for 6 years.
Charles Monginot regularly frequents the Café Guerbois where Edouard Manet and his friends regularly met until 1875.
A good comrade of Eugène Boudin who recommended Claude Monet to him, he received the latter very friendly when he stayed in Paris in 1859. It was moreover at Charles Monginot's that Claude Monet saw Edouard Manet for the first time.
It is quite difficult to spot the works of this talented artist. Most are in private collections or in provincial museums, such as those of Nice, Nancy or Tours. Edouard Manet himself owned a still life by Charles Monginot.
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