Louis de Moni (1698– 1771) was an 18th-century genre painter from the Northern Netherlands.
De Moni was born in Breda. 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 allied with the Confrerie Pictura, where he studied taking into account Philip van Dyk. He studied the works of Gerard Dou, and imitated the manner of Mieris. He accompanied Philip van Dyk to Cassel in 1726, and afterwards decided at Leyden, where he died in 1771. His paintings consist of portraits and genre pieces of a simple and welcome character, though frosty in colouring. There are by him:
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