Louis Dupré (painter)

Louis Dupré (French pronunciation: [lwi dypʁe]; Versailles, 9 January 1789 – Paris, 12 October 1837) was a French painter, lithographer, and travel writer, especially noted for his travels in Albania, Armenia, Greece, and other regions within the Ottoman Empire, and for his numerous paintings with Orientalist and Philhellene themes. He travelled and worked primarily in Greece on the very eve of the Greek War of Independence (1821–1832).

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