Jean-Laurent Mosnier

Jean-Laurent Mosnier
Self-portrait, 1786
Born1743 (1743)
Paris, France
Died10 April 1808(1808-04-10) (aged 64–65)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Known forPainting
ElectedMember Academy of Arts (1802)
Professor by rank (1802)

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, 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.

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