Marie-Philippe Coupin de La Couperie

• Name — Marie-Philippe Coupin de la Couperie • Birth Name — Marie-Philippe Coupin • Born — 11 June 1773 • Birthplace — Sèvres, France • Died — 19 December 1851 • Place of death — Versailles, France • Known for — Painting, porcelain painting, lithography • Training — Studio of Anne-Louis Girodet • Movement — Troubadour style

Marie-Philippe Coupin was born in Sèvres on 11 June 1773. He was the third child of Claude Coupin, a merchant from Chichery, and the elder brother of the art critic Pierre-Alexandre Coupin. The two brothers served together in the army from 1793. According to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the addition “de la Couperie” was chosen by the artist in order to avoid confusion with his brother Pierre-Alexandre Coupin. In 1800, Coupin entered the studio of Anne-Louis Girodet, becoming one of his pupils. He remained close to Girodet's artistic circle, as well as to the porcelain painter Marie-Victoire Jaquotot.

Coupin de la Couperie is best known as a painter of the Troubadour style. His work reflects the early nineteenth-century taste for historical, literary and sentimental scenes inspired by the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and French history. His best-known painting, The Tragic Love of Francesca da Rimini, was shown at the Paris Salon of 1812. The work was successful and was acquired by Joséphine de Beauharnais. Another related work, Francesca de Rimini, is held by the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille. Other works include Mademoiselle d'Arjuzon imploring Divine Goodness, formerly known as Gabrielle d'Arjuzon praying for the restoration of her mother's health, held by the Louvre, and Valentine of Milan mourning her husband Louis d'Orléans, held by the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois. In 1824, he exhibited Raphael Adjusts Fornarina's Hair before Painting Her Portrait at the Salon. The painting, acquired by the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm in 2019, has been described by the museum as an important example of Troubadour painting.

• Illustration — The Tragic Love of Francesca da Rimini, 1812, Napoleon Museum, Arenenberg • Illustration — Mademoiselle d'Arjuzon imploring Divine Goodness, c. 1812–1814, Louvre • Illustration — Sully montrant à son petit-fils le monument renfermant le cœur d'Henri IV, 1819 • Illustration — Valentine of Milan mourning her husband Louis d'Orléans, 1822, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Blois • Illustration — Raphael Adjusts Fornarina's Hair before Painting Her Portrait, 1824, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm • Illustration — A scene from Lord Byron's poem The Corsair, 1820–1823 • Illustration — Jupiter appearing at Semele's side while the young woman is sleeping, after Girodet, 1826

Marie-Philippe Coupin de La Couperie is recorded with the occupation porcelain painter. Recorded with the occupation graphic artist. Recorded as painter, graphic artist, lithographer and art educator.