Louis de Moni was an 18th century genre painter from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

According to the RKD he was a pupil of Van Kessel and J. B. Biset in Breda, and from 1721-1725 he attended the Hague drawing academy associated with the Confrerie Pictura

Confrerie Pictura

The Confrerie Pictura was a more or less academic club of artists founded in 1656 in The Hague, by local art painters, who were unsatisfied by the Guild of Saint Luke there.-History:The guild of St...

, where he studied with Philip van Dyk

Philip van Dijk

Philip van Dijk was an 18th century painter from the Northern Netherlands-Biography:...

. He studied the works of Gerard Dou, and imitated the manner of Mieris. He accompanied Philip van Dyk to Cassel

Kassel

Kassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...

 in 1726, and afterwards settled at Leyden, where he died in 1771. His paintings consist of portraits and genre pieces of a simple and pleasing character, though cold in colouring. There are by him:

• Amsterdam. Museum. A Woman watering Flowers.
• Hague. Gallery
  Mauritshuis
  The Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis is an art museum in The Hague, the Netherlands. Previously the residence of count John Maurice of Nassau, it now has a large art collection, including paintings by Dutch painters such as Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Steen, Paulus Potter and Frans...
  
  . The Lacemaker. 1742.
• Lille. Museum
  Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
  The Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille is one of the largest museums in France, and the largest French museum outside of Paris....
  
  . Scene galante.
• Paris. Louvre
  Louvre
  The Musée du Louvre – in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre – is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement...
  
  . A Family Scene.
• Petersburg. Hermitage
  Hermitage Museum
  The State Hermitage is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums of the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has been opened to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display,...
  
  . A Fish-Woman and The Bon Vivant. 1723.
• Rotterdam. Museum
  Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
  The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is the main art museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The museum began in 1847 with the collection of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans . Much of the museum's original collection was destroyed in a disastrous 1864 fire...
  
  . A Fish-Seller.
• Vienna. Belvedere. A Girl at a Window.