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JEAN LAURENT MOSNIER (PARIS, 1743 - SAINT-PETERSBURG, 1808) "Three-quarter portrait of a woman richly dressed in a purple silk bow hat, black dress with white lace collar and handles belted with a silk ribbon." Oil on canvas (formerly retouched) Signed lower left "J.L. Mosnier" and dated "1796". Gilded wood frame with doucine and frieze of gadroons. H. 61 cm - L. 73 cm (at sight) H. 82 cm - W 93 cm (with frame) Biography : Portraitist and miniaturist at the court under the Ancien Régime, he became after the revolution, a sought-after painter of the European courts, from London to St. Petersburg. His London works were particularly noticed and allowed him to present more than thirty portraits during five exhibitions at the Royal Academy. Our "Woman with a Hat" must be one of the last commissions of this period; the subject presenting an English fashionable outfit reminiscent of the artist's painting of the Marquise d'Aramon, who emigrated to London after the Revolution. He was expelled from England in 1796 and went to Hamburg and then St. Petersburg. Tsar Alexander I posed for him, as well as the Empress Elisabeth. In 1806 he was appointed as a professor at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. Related work : - Portrait of the Marquise of Aramon. Christie's sale, New York, November 02 2000, n°144.
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JEAN LAURENT MOSNIER (PARIS, 1743 - SAINT-PETERSBURG, 1808) "Three-quarter portrait of a woman richly dressed in a purple silk bow hat, black dress with white lace collar and handles belted with a silk ribbon." Oil on canvas (formerly retouched) Signed lower left "J.L. Mosnier" and dated "1796". Gilded wood frame with doucine and frieze of gadroons. H. 61 cm - L. 73 cm (at sight) H. 82 cm - W 93 cm (with frame) Biography : Portraitist and miniaturist at the court under the Ancien Régime, he became after the revolution, a sought-after painter of the European courts, from London to St. Petersburg. His London works were particularly noticed and allowed him to present more than thirty portraits during five exhibitions at the Royal Academy. Our "Woman with a Hat" must be one of the last commissions of this period; the subject presenting an English fashionable outfit reminiscent of the artist's painting of the Marquise d'Aramon, who emigrated to London after the Revolution. He was expelled from England in 1796 and went to Hamburg and then St. Petersburg. Tsar Alexander I posed for him, as well as the Empress Elisabeth. In 1806 he was appointed as a professor at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. Related work : - Portrait of the Marquise of Aramon. Christie's sale, New York, November 02 2000, n°144.
