Jean-Laurent Mosnier (; 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. ''

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'' 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

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's painting.

Selected works

Portrait of the Marquise de Grécourt, née de la Fresnaye, in a red velvet dress with a white chiffon scarf.jpg, Portrait of the Marquise de Grecur (1790) 1798 Mosnier Elisabeth Hudtwalcker geb. Moller anagoria.JPG, Portrait of Elizabeth HadtwalkerElisabeth Hudtwalcker, née Moller, Wife of Senator Martin Hudtwalcker Hamburger Kunsthalle (1798) Mosnier Auguste Lafontaine.jpg, Portrait of August Lafontaine (1798) Friederike Leisching by Jean Laurent Mosnier.jpg, Portrait of Frederica Leishing (1799) Elizabeth Alexeevna by J.L.Mosnier (1800s, Nizhniy Novgorod).jpg, Portrait of Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna (1800s) Portrait of Count Pavel Stroganoff (1772-1817).jpg, Portrait of Count Pavel Stroganov (1808) Muravyov Mikhail Nikitich.jpg, Portrait of Mikhail Muravyev (1810)

References

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. () *

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