Creation Year: ca 1790. Very good quality miniature profile portrait of a middle-aged gentleman from the early period of the French Revolution. Technique: watercolor on paper (round), laid on cardboard by the artist.
Jean-Laurent Mosnier (see our comparison images nr.6-9). Jean Laurent Mosnier was born in Paris in 1743 or 1744. At first, known as a portrait miniaturist, he portrayed in 1776 Queen Marie Antoinette from life and was appointed by her «peintre de la reine».
His first marriage was in the Netherlands, before a second marriage on 11 January 1776 at Saint-Eustache, Paris to Élisabeth Louise Vigée. They had one child, Jeanne Julie Louise Lebrun, who in 1800 married Gaëtan Bertrand Nigris, director of the Imperial Theatre in Saint Petersburg.