Lucien Hector Monod was a French painter, draftsman and graphic artist of the Belle Époque and Symbolism . His favorite subjects included landscapes and portraits of beautiful women, which he executed in oil, pencil or lithography . He became known for his portraits of women and symbolist paintings inspired by Paul César Helleu. Lucien Monod was born in Paris as a descendant of the pastor Jean Monod, who originally came from Switzerland . His father was the doctor Gustave Louis Monod (1840–1917), and his mother was the pastor’s daughter Louise Armand Delille. He is the cousin of the impressionist Wilfrid de Glehn. After training from 1886 to 1889 at the Académie Julian under the symbolist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes , with whom he remained friends after his studies, he devoted himself professionally to painting and quickly became a Parisian artistic personality. From 1891 onwards he exhibited regularly at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux–Arts and at the Salon de Paris . In 1899 he was commissioned to design a lithograph for the important Art Nouveau magazine L’Estampe Moderne . For this purpose he designed La voix des sources, which was decorated on the back with a poem by Henri de Régnier. Monod left the French capital in 1919 to move to Cannes . From there, in 1920, he published the encyclopedia Le prix des estampes anciennes et modernes: Prix-atteints dans les ventes. Suites and rooms. Biographies et Bibliographies in eight volumes with a Parisian publisher. Later – also in Cannes – he edited the first Félix Vallotton monograph, whose fellow student he was. Monod was married twice. His first wife, Suzanne Robineau, died in 1983 while giving birth to their daughter Juliette. From his second marriage in 1896 to the American Charlotte Todd McGregor (1867–1954), he had three sons: Robert (1898), the later lawyer and resistance fighter Philippe Monod (1900–1992) and the Nobel Prize winner for medicine Jacques Monod (1910–1976).