Henri de Montaut (1825 or 1830 – 1890 Mireille Dottin, Marcelle Enderle et Patrick Lasseube, Jules Verne : Imaginaires, Centre de promotion de la recherche scientifique, Toulouse, 1978, 54 p., (p. 12) : catalogue de l'exposition organisée du 5 au 22 décembre 1978 à la bibliothèque interuniversitaire du Mirail par la section de littérature comparée de l'université de Toulouse-Le Mirail. or 1900 and Jean-Marie Embs, Le Guide Jules Verne, Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2005, 319 p. , (p. 312).) was a French draftsman, engraver, and illustrator of the 19th century. He sometimes signed Henri de Hem, Monta or Hy.
Career
Henri de Montaut, with other artists such as Édouard Riou or George Roux, is remembered for the illustrations they made for the novels of the series Voyages extraordinaires by Jules Verne.
He collaborated with Le Journal illustré for which he was chief editor for a time Jean-Pierre Bacot, La Presse illustrée au XIXe : une histoire oubliée, Presses universitaires de Limoges (Pulim), coll. « Médiatextes », Limoges, 2005, 243 p. , (p. 113). as well as with La Vie Parisienne.
In 1883, he became chief editor of L'Art et la mode, journal de la vie mondaine.
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