Pierre Monier or Mosnier (17 May 1641 – 29 December 1703) was a French painter. Mosnier was born in

Blois Blois ( ; ) is a commune and the capital city of Loir-et-Cher department, in Centre-Val de Loire, France, on the banks of the lower Loire river between Orléans and Tours. With 45,898 inhabitants by 2019, Blois is the most populated city of the ...

. His father

Jean Monier Jean Monier (or Mosnier; 1600–1656) was a French painter. He was born and died in Blois. Monier's father also named Jean was a glass painter and early mentor. According to his earliest biographer, Jean Bernier, Monier executed for Queen ...

was also painter, and was his first teacher. In 1664 he won the inaugural

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for his painting ''la Conquête de la Toison d’Or'' (the Conquest of the Golden Fleece). In 1665 he traveled to Rome to continue his studies at the School of Rome. He moved back and took up residence in

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, where he fulfilled a number of commissions, primarily religious-themed works for churches, such as for the

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. Mosnier later taught at the

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. In 1698 he wrote and published a series of three books on art: ''History of the Arts associated with Drawing''. He died in Paris in 1703.

Work

* 1664: ''La Conquête de la Toison d’Or''Translated text from the corresponding French Wikipedia article, Pierre Mosnier La conquête de la Toison d'or

* 1665: ''le Parlement assemblé afin de juger un procès pour le marquis de Locmaviaker'' * 1674: ''Hercule se préparant à la défense de la ville de Thèbes, sa patrie, menacée par les Minyens, et recevant d’Apollon des flèches, de Mercure une épée et de Vulcain une cuirasse'' * 1698: ''Histoire des arts qui ont raport au dessein'' (Paris: Pierre Giffart
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* 1699: ''Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, entouré de ses apôtres, appelle à lui les petits enfants'' Monier22

Monier received the

in 1664 for his painting ''La Conquête de la Toison d’Or''. On 6 October 1674, he accepted as an Academician for his painting ''Hercule se préparant à la défense de la ville de Thèbes, sa patrie, menacée par les Minyens, et recevant d’Apollon des flèches, de Mercure une épée et de Vulcain une cuirasse''. Monier continued to paint until his death in 1703.

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