Jean-Laurent Mosnier

Jean-Laurent Mosnier (French: [moɲe]; 1743 – 10 April 1808) was a French painter and miniaturist.^[1]

Jean-Laurent Mosnier
Self-portrait, 1786
Born	1743 Paris, France
Died	10 April 1808 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Known for	Painting

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]

Selected works

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  Portrait of the Marquise de Grecur (1790)
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  Portrait of Elizabeth Hadtwalker^[3] (1798)
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  Portrait of August Lafontaine (1798)
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  Portrait of Frederica Leishing (1799)
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  Portrait of Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna (1800s)
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  Portrait of Count Pavel Stroganov (1808)
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  Portrait of Mikhail Muravyev (1810)