Jean-Laurent Mosnier

Jean-Laurent Mosnier (French: [moɲe]; (Paris) 1743 – (Saint Petersburg) 10 April 1808) was a French painter and miniaturist.

Jean-Laurent Mosnier
Self portrait
Born1743
Paris, France
Died10 April 1808
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
NationalityFrench
EducationMember Academy of Arts (1802)
Professor by rank (1802)[1]
Known forPainting

Court painter under the Ancien Régime, Mosnier began, from 1789, a brilliant career as society painter in London, Hamburg and St. Petersburg. Many times academician, he left considerable work and high quality, both in miniature painting.

Self-Portrait with Two Pupils is thought to have been the basis for Jean-Laurent Mosnier's painting of himself with his young daughters. It is thought that his ambition was to clone the success of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard's painting.[2]

Works
  • Portrait of the Marquise de Grecur (1790)
  • Portrait of Elizabeth Hadtwalker[3] (1798)
  • Portrait of August Lafontaine (1798)
  • Portrait of Frederica Leishing (1799)
  • Portrait of Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna (1800s)
  • Portrait of Count Pavel Stroganov (1808)
  • Portrait of Mikhail Muravyev (1810)
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References
  1. Directory of the Imperial Academy of Arts 1915, p. 132.
  2. Laura Auricchio (2009). Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: Artist in the Age of Revolution. Getty Publications. pp. 40–. ISBN 978-0-89236-954-6.
  3. Elisabeth Hudtwalcker, née Moller, Wife of Senator Martin Hudtwalcker Hamburger Kunsthalle

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