Marie-Philippe Coupin de La Couperie

Coupin de la Couperie first worked as a porcelain painter at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres. He contributed to painted plaques intended for the pedestals of the Cordeliers vases, a group of works connected with the celebration of Napoleon's campaigns. The Louvre preserves several elements from this set, including plaques painted by Coupin de la Couperie in 1809 for the pedestals of the vases. He later became professor of drawing at the Prytanée National Militaire, and then at the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr.

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.