page_title: Louis Dupré (painter)
section_title: Gallery
hierarchical_section_title: Louis Dupré (painter) / Gallery
caption_attribution_description: Un Grec arborant son étendard sur les murs de Salone ("N. Mitropoulos hoists the flag at Salona". Scene from the early stages of the Greek War of Independence).
context_page_description: Louis Dupré was a French painter, especially noted for his travels in Greece and other regions within the Ottoman Empire and of his numerous paintings with Orientalist and Philhellene themes.
  Louis Dupré had been a student of Jacques-Louis David, and had later become a painter for Jérôme Bonaparte, receiving commissions from the court. Dupré had studied in Italy and had also received commissions during his travels there. He travelled to Greece, during a time when the region's ancient ideals and Hellenistic culture had experienced a revival. It also represented a concerning time for the Ottoman Empire, in terms of keeping their territorial regions under control. His visit to Greece was on the very eve of the Greek War of Independence.
  He often traveled and changed his work location, including Paris, Kassel, Naples, Rome, Naples,
  Istanbul, Greece, Paris, and Vienna.
caption: Dupré's depiction of Greek rebels hoisting the flag at Salona, a scene from the early stages of the Greek War of Independence, clearly indicates the painter's Philhellene sympathies.
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