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French painter
A.K.A.
Louis-Charles-Auguste Couder, Louis Charles Auguste Couder
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Birth:
1 April 1790(London, UK; Paris, France)
Death:
21 July 1873(Paris, France)
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Biography
Introduction
Louis-Charles-Auguste Couder or Auguste Couder (1 April 1789 in London – 21 July 1873 in Paris) was a French painter and student of Jean-Baptiste Regnault and Jacques-Louis David. He joined the Académie des beaux-arts in 1839 and was an officer of the Légion d'honneur. He married Cornélie Stouf, daughter of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Stouf.
Couder was buried in the cemetery of Père-Lachaise.
Famous paintings
Siege of Yorktown,
oil on canvasMuhammad Ali of Egypt, 1840
Water, or the Fight of Achilles against Scamander and Simoeis