Marie-Philippe Coupin de la Couperie

Marie-Philippe Coupin de la Couperie (1773, Sèvres - 1851, Versailles) was a French painter of the Troubadour style. He was a friend of the painter Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson.

Portrait of Marie-Philippe Coupin de La Couperie, 1816, by Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson

Among his patrons were Joséphine de Beauharnais, who bought his The Tragic Love of Francesca da Rimini for her gallery at Château de Malmaison. He became professor of drawing at two French military schools: the Prytanée National Militaire and then the Ecole Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr.

The Tragic Love of Francesca da Rimini, 1812 (Napoleon Museum, Arenenberg)
Raphael Adjusts Fornarina’s Hair Before Painting her Portrait, 1824 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm)

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Media related to Marie-Philippe Coupin de La Couperie at Wikimedia Commons
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de la Couperie's lithograph Andromeda at the Art Institute of Chicago

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