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.
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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)
External links
Media related to Marie-Philippe Coupin de La Couperie at Wikimedia Commons- de la Couperie on Artnet
- de la Couperie's lithograph Andromeda at the Art Institute of Chicago
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