DUPRÉ, LOUIS (1789-1837)
Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople
COLLECTIVE REPRODUCTION
The French painter and traveller Louis Dupré (1789-1837) was born in Versailles and died in Paris. Dupré had a powerful patron, Count Clément de Ris, who promoted his studies in the School of the famous painter Jacques-Louis David. In 1811, he was named court painter to the king of Westphalia, Jérôme Bonaparte, who also facilitated Dupré’s journey to Rome to study, in 1813. In Italy, Dupré met three British art lovers, Heyet, Hay and Viwian, who suggested that he accompany them on their journey to Greece, in 1819. This journey to Corfu, Epirus, Thessaly, Central Greece, Attica, the Saronic islands, and then to Constantinople and Bucharest, lasted until April 1820. In 1825, he returned home and published his travel album with forty lithographs in colour, etched by the best lithographers in France.
