Louis Dupré (painter)
Louis Dupré (born January 9, 1789 in Versailles , † October 12, 1837 in Paris ) was a French history painter and lithographer , philhellene and admirer of antiquity.
biography
Apprenticeship and wandering years
Dupré was a student of Jacques-Louis David in Paris . He caught the eye of Joseph Fesch , Cardinal of Lyon and Napoleon's uncle , who sent him to Kassel , the residence of Jérôme Bonaparte as King of Westphalia , in 1811 . Jérôme Bonaparte appointed him his court painter.
In 1813 he went to Rome and stayed there for two years before moving to Naples for two more years . He then stayed in Rome again until 1819.
In 1817 Dupré first took part in the Paris Salon with a portrait of the painter Dunouy. In Italy he studied and copied ancient monuments and vase paintings and practiced portrait and landscape painting.
Greece trip
In 1819 he visited Greece to accompany three British tourists, for whom he painted pictures of the country's monuments and squares in return for bearing the cost of the trip. They traveled to Corfu , Epirus , Thessaly , Central Greece , the area around Attica and the Saronic Islands . Dupré then traveled on to Istanbul alone and to Bucharest at the invitation of Prince Michael Soutsou . The trip ended in Rome in April 1820.
Artistic success
In 1824 Dupré took part in the Paris Salon for the second time, where he received a gold medal for the work " Camillus expels the Gauls from Rome " and attracted attention with his pictures on Greek subjects.
His works from Greece were included in the great illustrated travel chronicle " Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople, ou collection de portraits, de vues et de costumes grecs et ottomans, peints sur les lieux d'après nature, lithographiés et coloriés par L. Dupré, élève de David "published. It comprised 40 colored lithographs and 11 vignettes, mainly portraits and landscapes. In 1837, after his death, the " Album Grec " was published with twelve lithographs.
Works
- Louis Dupré: Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople ou collection de portraits, de vues et de costumes Grecs et Ottomans peints sur les lieux, d'apres nature, lithographie et colorie par L.Dupre de David. Dondey-Dupré, Paris 1825 [1839 edition].
The Salona uprising ( Amfissa )
Demetrios Mavromichalis
Girls from Livadia
Portrait of Ali Pasha
Ali Pasha on the hunt on the Butrinto lake
Ali Pasha on the lake of Butrinto (detail)
Michael Soutsos
Princess Helene Soutsou
Young Arvanite
Wedding in Athens
Portrait of Ferdinand Herold
Portrait of Costache Aristia
literature
- Elisabeth A. Fraser: Mediterranean Encounters: Artists Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774-1839. Penn State University Press, 2017, ISBN 978-0-271-07320-0 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dupré, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1789 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Versailles |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 1837 |
| Place of death | Paris |