Jean-Laurent Mosnier
Jean-Laurent Mosnier | |
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 Self-Portrait, 1786, preparatory work for the larger Self-Portrait with His Daughters of the same year; Minneapolis Institute of Art | |
| Born | 1743 |
| Died | 10 April 1808 (aged 64–65) |
| Known for | Portrait painting |
| Elected | Royal Academician in Paris (1788) Imperial Academician in St. Petersburg (1802) |
Jean-Laurent Mosnier (French: [moɲe]; 1743 – 10 April 1808) was a French painter, active in Paris during the Ancien Régime's last decades and then in St. Petersburg during Tsar Alexander I's reign, best known for his portraits.[1]
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 easel and miniature painting.
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, is thought to have been the basis for Mosnier's similar self-portrait with his young daughters. It is thought that his ambition was to clone the success of Labille-Guiard's painting.[2][3]
Selected works
Self-Portrait with His Daughters, 1786; Hermitage Museum
Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, 1788, reception piece for the Académie Royale; Louvre, on display in the Musée de l'Histoire de France, Versailles%252C_savant_et_homme_politique_%252C_maire_de_Paris_de_1789_%C3%A0_1791_(P991)_-_P991_-_Mus%C3%A9e_Carnavalet.jpg)
![Frederica Leishing [de], 1799; Hamburger Kunsthalle](./_assets_/0c70a452f799bfe840676ee341124611/Friederike_Leisching_by_Jean_Laurent_Mosnier.jpg)
Frederica Leishing, 1799; Hamburger Kunsthalle![Engel Christine Westphalen [de], 1800; Kunsthalle Kiel](./_assets_/0c70a452f799bfe840676ee341124611/Engel_Christine_Westphalen%252C_1800.jpg)
Engel Christine Westphalen, 1800; Kunsthalle Kiel.jpg)
![Count Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov, 1804; Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts [ru]](./_assets_/0c70a452f799bfe840676ee341124611/Portrait_of_Count_Alexander_Stroganoff%252C_the_President_of_the_Academy_of_Arts.jpg)
Count Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov, 1804; Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts
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Count Pavel Alexandrovich Stroganov, 1808; Russian Museum, pendant piece to the prior work
References
- ↑ "Jean Laurent Mosnier". www.britishmuseum.org.
- ↑ Borzello, Frances (1998). Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self-Portraits. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. p. 82. ISBN 0-8109-4188-0. OCLC 1285751050.
- ↑ Laura Auricchio (2009). Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: Artist in the Age of Revolution. Getty Publications. pp. 40–. ISBN 978-0-89236-954-6.
Book sources
- Jean-François Heim, Claire Beraud, Philippe Heim, Lounge painting of the French Revolution (1789-1799), Paris, CAC Publishing, 1989.
- Olivier Blanc, Portraits of Women: artists and models at the time of Marie Antoinette, Paris, Carpentier, 2006. (ISBN 9782841674381)
- С. Н. Кондаков (1915). Юбилейный справочник Императорской Академии художеств. 1764-1914 (in Russian). Vol. 2. p. 132.
Links
Media related to Jean-Laurent Mosnier at Wikimedia Commons
- 1743 births
- 1808 deaths
- 18th-century French painters
- 19th-century French painters
- Painters from Paris
- French portrait miniaturists
- Members of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
- Members of the Imperial Academy of Arts
- French portrait painters
- 19th-century French male painters
- 18th-century French male painters
- French artist stubs