Jean-Laurent Mosnier

Jean-Laurent Mosnier
Self portrait, 1786
Born1743
Paris, France
Died10 April 1808
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Known forPainting

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

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

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

Book sources

Media related to Jean-Laurent Mosnier at Wikimedia Commons