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 to Ottoman Greece, during a time when the country's ancient ideals and Hellenistic culture had experienced a revival among the Greek population.

It also represented a concerning time for the Ottoman Empire, in terms of keeping their territorial regions under control.

Dupré visited Greece in 1819, while it was still a region within the Ottoman Empire, and recorded his time there with drawings and descriptions of the people from the different levels of society.

It was written in French and published in the Restored Kingdom of France, after Greece had begun its revolution for independence and rebelled against the Ottoman Empire.

Dupré's 1821 self-portrait, depicting himself in Constantinople , in the act of making a drawing of the environment while wearing a curved Turkish sword.