A villa set in a park with figures in the foreground

Very few oil paintings are known by Mongin by comparison with his views of Parisian parks in bodycolour, of which this drawing is a fine example, with its typical rich blues tones. A view of Château Saint-Cloud shows a similar use of a wide flight of stairs both as repoussoir and to create perspective (Christie’s, Paris, 18 May 2022, lot 58). The artist exhibited at the Salon between 1791 and 1824, having trained at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts.