Son of the painter and children's illustrator Maurice Boutet de Monvel (1850-1913),[REF] Bernard Boutet de Monvel was raised in both Paris and Nemours, and he set his sights on becoming a painter from the age of sixteen.
In the autumn of 1898, Louis McClellan Potter (1873-1912), an American painter who was also a student of Merson, introduced him to etching [REF].