(bapt. Coulommiers, ?3 Jan. 1591; d Rome, 18/19 Aug. 1632). French Caravaggesque painter, active in Rome for all his known career (he is first securely documented there in 1620 but probably arrived appreciably earlier). His life is obscure: the name ‘Moïse’ (the French form of Moses) by which he was called was not his Christian name (which is unknown) but a corruption of the Italian form of ‘monsieur’. He did, however, have one major public commission—the Martyrdom of St Processus and St Martinian (1629–30, Pinacoteca, Vatican), painted for St Peter's as a pendant to Poussin's Martyrdom of St Erasmus. About 80 works are attributed to him. They vary in subject—religious, mythological, and genre scenes and portraits—but the same models often seem to reappear in them.