Auguste Couder
# Auguste Couder

Louis-Charles-Auguste Couder or Auguste Couder (1 April 1789, in London – 21 July 1873, in Paris) was a French painter and student of Jean-Baptiste Regnault and Jacques-Louis David. He joined the Académie des beaux-arts in 1839 and was an officer of the Légion d'honneur. He married Cornélie Stouf, daughter of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Stouf.

Couder was buried in the cemetery of Père-Lachaise.

## Famous paintings

* Siege of Yorktown, oil on canvas
* Muhammad Ali of Egypt, 1840
* Water, or the Fight of Achilles against Scamander and Simoeis
