Louis Dupré (painter)

Louis Dupré ( born January 9, 1789 in Seine- et- Oise, † October 12th 1837 in Paris) was a French painter and lithographer History, Philhellene and admirers of antiquity.

Biography

Apprenticeship and journeyman years

Dupré was a student of Jacques -Louis David in Paris. He fell to Joseph Fesch, Napoleon's uncle, Cardinal of Lyon, 1811 in Kassel, the residence of Jerome Bonaparte as King of Westphalia, sent him. Jérôme Bonaparte appointed him his court painter.

In 1813 he went to Rome and remained there for two years until he retired for two more years to Naples. Then he remained until 1819 in Rome again.

1817 took Dupré for the first time at the Paris Salon with a Portrait of the Painter Dunouy part. In Italy, he studied and copied ancient monuments and vase paintings and practiced in portrait and landscape painting.

Greece travel

In 1819 he visited Greece as a companion of three British tourists for whom he. Return for that they bore the cost of the trip, painted pictures of monuments and places of the country They visited Corfu, Epirus, Thessaly, Central Greece, the region of Attica and the Saronic islands. Duprè then traveled alone to Istanbul and at the invitation of Prince Michael Soutsou to Bucharest. The trip ends in Rome in April 1820.

Artistic Achievements

1824 took part Dupré for the second time at the Paris Salon, where he " sells Camillus the Gauls from Rome " a gold medal for the work received and Greek themes attracted attention with his paintings.

His works from Greece were in 1825 in the great illustrated travel chronicle "Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople, ou collection de portraits, de vues et de costumes grecs et ottomans, sur les lieux peints d'après nature, LITHOGRAPHIES et coloriés par L. Dupré, élève de David "was published. It consisted of 40 colored lithographs and 11 vignettes, mainly portraits and landscapes. In 1937, following his death also appeared the "Album Grec " with twelve lithographs.

Works

Louis Dupré, "Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople ou collection de portraits, de vues et de costumes Grecs et sur ​​les lieux peints Ottomans, d' apres nature, lithograph et colorie par L.Dupre de David " Paris: Dondey - Dupré, 1825 [ issue 1839 ].

The uprising of Salona ( Amfissa )

Demetrios Mavromichalis

Girls of Livadia

Mameluck

Portrait of Ali Pasha

Ali Pasha on the hunt on the lake of Butrinto

Ali Pasha on the lake of Butrinto (detail)

Michael Soutsos

Duchess Helene Soutsou

Young Arvanite

Wedding in Athens

Konstantinos Kanaris

Portrait of Ferdinand Herold

Portrait Costache Aristia