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.

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The Tragic Love of Francesca da Rimini, 1812 (Napoleon Museum, Arenenberg)
Raphael Adjusts Fornarina’s Hair Before Painting her Portrait, 1824 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm)
Sully montrant à son petit-fils le monument renfermant le cœur d'Henri IV, 1819
Gabrielle d'Arjuzon praying for the restoration of her mother's health, 1812 to 1814
Valentine de Milan pleurant son époux, 1822
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
Jupiter appearing at Semele's side while the young woman is sleeping; after Girodet 1826