Marie-Philippe Coupin de la Couperie (1773, Sèvres - 1851, Versailles) was a French painter of the

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. He was a friend of the painter Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-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

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and then the Ecole Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr.

Gallery

Image:FrancescaCoupin.jpg, ''The Tragic Love of

Francesca da Rimini Francesca da Rimini or Francesca da Polenta (died between 1283 and 1286) was a medieval noblewoman of Ravenna, who was murdered by her husband, Giovanni Malatesta, upon his discovery of her affair with his brother, Paolo Malatesta. She was a co ...

'', 1812 (Napoleon Museum, Arenenberg) Image:Raphael Adjusts Fornarina's Hair before Painting Her Portrait by Marie-Philippe Coupin de la Couperie.jpg, '' Raphael Adjusts

Fornarina Margarita Luti (also Margherita Luti or ''La Fornarina'', "the baker's daughter") was the mistress and model of Raphael. The story of their love has become "the archetypal artist–model relationship of Western tradition", yet little is known ...

’s Hair Before Painting her Portrait'', 1824 (

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, Stockholm) Image:Marie-Philippe Coupin de La Couperie - Sully montrant à son petit-fils.jpg, ''Sully montrant à son petit-fils le monument renfermant le cœur d'Henri IV'', 1819 Image: Coupin de La Couperie - Gabrielle d'Arjuzon.jpg, ''Gabrielle d'Arjuzon praying for the restoration of her mother's health'', 1812 to 1814 Image:Valentine de Milan pleurant son époux, Louis d'Orléans.jpg, ''Valentine de Milan pleurant son époux'', 1822 Image:Médora (BM 1990,0519.100).jpg, A scene from Lord Byron's poem "The Corsair": ''The distraught Medora, reclining on a rock overlooking the shore, her garment swirling in the wind; the name of her husband, Conrad, is carved in Greek letters on the rock'', 1820-23 Image:Jupiter et Sémélé (BM 1896,0618.14).jpg, ''Jupiter appearing at Semele's side while the young woman is sleeping; after Girodet'' 1826

External links

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de la Couperie on Artnetde la Couperie's lithograph ''Andromeda''
at the

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1773 births 1851 deaths 18th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century French painters People from Sèvres 19th-century French male artists 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub