1880年，朱尔斯-亚历克西斯Muenier进入巴黎高等国立高等DES师从美术学院让-莱昂杰罗姆，谁现在被认为是他那个时代的最重要的学术画家之一。在同一个十年的后半段，他开始展示他的工作，先在巴黎沙龙的绘画乐Bréviaire，这给他带来了很多的好评，并在1891年，他展出的讲授课程，它使来自政府的认可谁最终会购买他工作。

Muenier是现实主义画家的密友帕斯卡尔Dagnan-Bouveret的。他的许多作品描绘他的家乡上索恩，在那里他住他一生中最。

他接受了骑士德拉荣誉军团勋章于1895年，并成为会员法兰西艺术院于1921年。

In 1880, Jules-Alexis Muenier entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts where he studied under Jean-Léon Gérôme, who is now considered one of the most important academic painters of his age. In the latter half of that same decade he began exhibiting his work, first at the Paris Salon with the painting Le Bréviaire, which brought him much acclaim, and in 1891 he exhibited The Catechism Lesson which brought recognition from the Government who would eventually purchase his work.

Muenier was a close friend of realist painter Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret. Many of his works depict his native Haute-Saône, where he lived most of his life.

He received the Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1895 and became a member of Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1921.