Pierre Meunier Mosnier

Pierre Monier (1641-1703) Tithes being presented at the Temple with inscription 'Mic Corneille' red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white on light brown paper, watermark wheel and proprietary, oval 254 x 326 mm. Lot Notes By the same hand as a drawing sold in these Rooms, 4 July 2000, lot 154, as two formerly with Crispian Riley-Smith and as one, of the same shape and size as the present one, sold at Sotheby's London, 5 July 2000, lot 351 (as French School). Other drawings by this pupil of Bourdon are in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and the Angers Museum, P. Rosenberg, 'A drawing by Pierre Monier', The Burlington Magazine, 1985, CXXVII, pp. 786-9.

Pierre Monier (1641-1703) Moses and the Daughters of Jethro black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white, on light brown paper 257 x 329 mm. Saleroom Notice Provenance Anon sale, Paris, Drouot, 21 December 1926, lot 88 (as Stella). Lot Notes By the same hand as two drawings recently with Crispian Riley-Smith, Recent Acquisitions, London, n.d., nos. 1 and 2. Other drawings by Monier, a pupil of Sébastien Bourdon, are in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, and the Musée d'Angers, P. Rosenberg, 'A drawing by Pierre Monier', The Burlington Magazine, 1985, CXXVII, pp. 786-789.

Pierre Mosnier (1641-1703) oil on canvas, Pegasus among the Muses on Mount Parnassus, 22 x 29.5in.