His father was a painter, art dealer and member of the Académie de Saint-Luc. Charles-Edouard studied under Jean Bonvoisin in 1775, then under Jean-Jacques Lagrenée, before winning second prize in the 1778 prix de Rome with David condemning to death the Amalekite bringing him Saul's diadem.
Surviving works
Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Herminie mourniing for Tancred, drawing, 1792.
Reims, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pelias's daughters demanding that Medea rejuvenate their father, oil on canvas.
Strasbourg, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Theseus, defeater of the Minotaur, oil on canvas
Salons
1783, Salon de la Correspondance
XXII, A Vestal offering a sacrifice.
XXIII, Another [Vestal] who reverses the altar on which the sacred flame burns
XXIV, The Prodigal Son.
LIX, A painting representing Hope consoling Love
LX, A sketch representing Innocence seduced by Love
1791, Salon de la Société des Amis des Arts
n° 61, Sketch for his painting of Oedipus discovered by Shepherds
n° 62, Sketch for his painting of the death of Diogenes
n° 63, Crayon drawing in three colours, historical subject
n° 95, Prudence sleeping.
Salons (of the ex-académie Royale)
1791
n° 128, Young woman making an offering to the god Pan
n° 647, Prudence sleeping.
n° 724, Shepherds of Arcadia.
n° 733, Pelias's daughters demanding that Medea rejuvente their father, Musée de Reims.
n° 764, Festival to Bacchus.
1793
n° 23, Two young people at a window.
n° 260, Septimius Severus reproaching his son for having wished to assassinate him.
