Antoine Le Moiturier

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File:Détail du tombeau de Philippe Pot (17863220888).jpg, circa 1480, attributed to Le Moiturier on the tomb of Philippe Pot, now located in the Louvre]]

Antoine Le Moiturier (1425–1495) was a French sculptor. He was born in Avignon into a family of sculptors. His uncle was the itinerant French master Jacques Morel.

Following from the work of Jean de la Huerta beginning in 1443, Le Moiturier completed a group of sculptures of Pleurants known as the Mourners of Dijon. Completed in 1470, these sculptures are in the architectural frieze on the tombs of Duke John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria. They reside at the Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy in Dijon.{{cite web|url=http://mba.dijon.fr/sites/default/files/Collections/pdf/les_tombeaux_des_ducs_de_bourgogne__livret.pdf|title=Dukes of Burgundy tombs (French)|accessdate=10 June 2013|archive-date=5 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105044125/http://mba.dijon.fr/sites/default/files/Collections/pdf/les_tombeaux_des_ducs_de_bourgogne__livret.pdf|url-status=dead}} The job had originally been assigned to the workshop of Claus Sluter, but went to Le Moiturier and De la Huerta.{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Court-of-Burgundy-s-Mourners-speak-across-the-ages-2311827.php|title=Review of Court of Burgundy's Mourners|accessdate=10 June 2013 | work=The San Francisco Chronicle|first=Kenneth|last=Baker|date=1 September 2011}}

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.{{cite web|title=Antoine Le Moiturier|url=http://www.answers.com/topic/antoine-le-moiturier-1|publisher=Answers Corporation|accessdate=20 August 2013}}

Le Moiturier is believed to have made the pleurants on the tomb of Philippe Pot (1477–83).Hofstatter, Hans H., Art of the Middle Ages, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1968, p 137, 256.