(b Paris, 1742; d after 1813). French engraver. He produced numerous designs for book illustrations in Paris during the second half of the 18th century, including work for a project to engrave vignettes for an edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Paris, 1767–71). He was one of a team of engravers commissioned to reproduce designs by the brilliant draughtsman Jean-Michel Moreau le jeune for two major projects: one was an edition in twelve volumes of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Oeuvres complètes (1773–82), and the other was two suites of prints for the Monument du costume physique et moral (1777, 1783), which constituted a history of dress in 18th-century France. In addition to his work as book illustrator, Simonet engraved single-sheet prints after sentimental genre paintings by contemporary French artists such as Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Etienne Aubry and Pierre-Antoine Baudouin. In 1771 he contributed one piece to the Galerie Le Brun. His son Adrien-Jacques Simonet (b 1791) also became an engraver.