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. 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. Gallery External links de la Couperie on Artnet de la Couperie's lithograph Andromeda at the Art Institute of Chicago 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