Auguste Couder

{{Short description|French painter}}

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| name = Louis-Charles-Auguste Couder

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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1789|04|01}}

| birth_place =London, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1873|07|21|1789|04|01}}

| death_place = Paris, France

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| nationality = French

| field = Painting

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| spouse =Cornelia Stouf

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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.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cIMDAAAAYAAJ&q=%22r%C3%A9union+des+soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9s+des+beaux-arts+des+d%C3%A9partements%22+%22l%C3%A9on+charvet%22 |title=Réunion des sociétés des beaux-arts des départements...", v.xxvii |date=2007-06-15 |accessdate=2014-01-01}} He married Cornélie Stouf, daughter of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Stouf.

Couder was buried in the cemetery of Père-Lachaise.

Famous paintings

Bataille de Yorktown by Auguste Couder.jpg|Siege of Yorktown,
oil on canvas

File:ModernEgypt, Muhammad Ali by Auguste Couder, BAP 17996.jpg|Muhammad Ali of Egypt, 1840

Achilles Xanthos Simoeis Couder decoration Louvre INV3379.jpg|Water, or the Fight of Achilles against Scamander and Simoeis

Auguste_Couder_-_Death_of_Masaccio_-_WGA5454FXD.jpg|The Death of Masaccio

References