Antoine le Moiturier

Antoine le Moiturier (c. 1425- c.1494) was a French sculptor. He completed a group of sculptures of grieving monks known as the Mourners of Dijon. These sculptures are in the architectural frieze on the tombs of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria. Moiturier is also believed to have made the pleurants (mourners) on the tomb of Philippe Pot (1477–83).^[1]

Antoine le Moiturier was the nephew of Jacques Morel, with the possibility of also being his student. There is also speculation that the uncle and nephew duo had worked on the tomb of Charles I, Duke of Bourbon. In 1461, le Moiturier was hired by Canon Jacques Oboli to create an altarpiece for St Pierre, Avignon. Oboli died before the work could be completed, and in 1463 the church commissioned an altarpiece depicting the Last Judgement. le Moiturier completed this two years later. This stellar work included statues of Jesus, Saint Peter and Paul, and several angels. Today, only two sculptures remain of the more than sixteen that were originally in the sculpture.^[2]

John the Fearless' tomb, made by Antoine le Moiturier.

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