Louis Dupré

Born in the year of the French Revolution, the history painter and lithographer Louis Dupré studied under Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), the leader of the Neoclassical school of painting in France. Like many of his nineteenth-century contemporaries, Dupré was fascinated with antiquity and moved to Italy in 1814 to study and make art until 1830, when he returned to Paris. From 1817 to 1837, he exhibited at the Paris Salon, winning a gold medal in 1824. He exhibited the Smart Museum's Portrait of M. Fauvel there in 1827 and again in 1833.