Auguste Couder

Napoleon Visiting the Louvre Staircase with Percier and Fontaine, c. 1833.

Napoléon visitant l'escalier du Louvre avec Percier et… (museum title)

Auguste Couder (French), oil on canvas

Louvre Museum, France

Sketch for the Church of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette: The Martyrdom of Saint Stephen, 1836.

Esquisse pour l'église Notre-Dame-de-Lorette : Le martyre… (museum title)

Auguste Couder (French), oil on paper mounted on canvas

Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, France

Installation of the Council of State at the Petit-Luxembourg Palace, 25 December 1799, 1856.

Installation du conseil d'Etat au palais du Petit… (museum title)

Auguste Couder (French), oil on canvas

Palace of Versailles, France

The Death of Masaccio (reduced replica), c. 1817.

La Mort de Masaccio (museum title)

Auguste Couder (French), oil on canvas

Hermitage Museum, Russia

Muhammad Ali, Viceroy of Egypt (1769-1849), 1841.

Méhémet-Ali, vice-roi d'Égypte (1769-1849) (museum title)

Auguste Couder (French), oil on canvas

Palace of Versailles, France

Opening Session of the Estates General, 5 May 1789, 1839.

Séance d'ouverture de l'Assemblée des états généraux, 5 mai… (museum title)

Auguste Couder (French), oil on canvas

Palace of Versailles, France

The Siege of Yorktown, 17 October 1781, 1836.

Siège de Yorktown. 17 octobre 1781 (museum title)

Auguste Couder (French), oil on canvas

Palace of Versailles, France

Works by Auguste Couder (1789-1873), in the public domain, each linked to its record in the museum that holds it. Born in London, a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Regnault and Jacques-Louis David, he made his debut at the Salon of 1814 with The Death of General Moreau, entered the Académie des beaux-arts in 1839 and painted for Louis-Philippe several large pictures for the historical museum at Versailles, among them the Siege of Yorktown. Only works that the museums give to him without reservation, and of which a freely reusable photograph exists, are included. For the works at Versailles and Rennes, which have no stable address on the museum's website, the link leads to their record in the official database of the French Ministry of Culture (POP). The Hermitage painting is a reduced replica of the Salon picture of 1817, by Couder's own hand. The two ceilings of the Louvre are photographed in place, in the Rotonde d'Apollon. The titles are those of the museums, with their translation.