Louis Dupré (painter)

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Louis Dupré (

He often traveled and changed his work location, including Paris, Kassel (1811–1814), Naples (1814–1816), Rome (1816–1819, 1824–1831), Naples (1819–1820), Constantinople (c. 1820), Greece (c. 1820), Paris (1820–1837), and Vienna (1820–1824).

Travel book

Dupré visited Greece in 1819, while it was still a region within the Ottoman Empire, and recorded his time there with drawings and descriptions of the people from the different levels of society. His travel book, named Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople, was produced a few years later after his travels, in 1825. It was written in French and published in the Restored Kingdom of France, after Greece had begun its revolution for independence and rebelled against the Ottoman Empire. His travel book consists of forty illustrations accompanied by fifty-two pages of text.^[2]

Gallery

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  Dupré's depiction of Nikolakis Mitropoulos raising his flag at Salona; a scene from the early stages of the Greek War of Independence in 1821.
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  A hand-coloured lithograph by Louis Dupré in his travel book, Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople, plate VII. Depicted here is Ali Pasha, Albanian ruler of the Pashalik of Yanina.
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  A hand-coloured lithograph by Louis Dupré in his travel book, Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople, 1820s. Depicted here is a Souliote warrior of the Greek Legion in Corfu.
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  Vasilis Goudas, adjutant of Markos Botsaris. A hand-coloured lithograph by Louis Dupré in his travel book, Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople, 1820s.
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  A hand-coloured lithograph by Louis Dupré in his travel book, Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople. Depicted here is the

  Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos

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  A hand-coloured lithograph by Louis Dupré in his travel book, Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople. Depicted here are a Greek Orthodox priest (left) and a Turk (right).
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  A hand-coloured lithograph by Louis Dupré in his travel book, Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople. Depicted here are an Armenian prince and his Turkish wife.

Bibliography

Elisabeth A. Fraser, "Skin of Nation, Body of Empire: Louis Dupré in Ottoman Greece," in Mediterranean Encounters: Artists Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774-1839, Penn State University Press, 2017.

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