#auguste couder

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Napoleon visits the Louvre Staircase accompanied by Architects Percier and Fontaine — by Auguste Couder

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Auguste Couder - Tanneguy Du Châtel saving the Dauphin (future Charles VII), 1828

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Auguste Couder (1789 - 1873). Étude pour le portrait de Robespierre (Vers 1848).

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Tanneguy du Châtel saves the dauphin, Auguste Couder 1828

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Muhammad Ali Pasha Viceroy of Egypt

Artist: Auguste Couder (French, 1789–1873)

Date: 1841

Medium: OIl on canvas

Collection: Museum of the History of France, Palace of Versailles, Paris, France

Muhammad Ali of Egypt

Muhammad Ali (4 March 1769 – 2 August 1849) was the Ottoman Albanian viceroy and governor who became the de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, widely considered the founder of modern Egypt. At the height of his rule, he controlled Egypt, Sudan, Hejaz, the Levant, Crete and parts of Greece.

He was a military commander in an Albanian Ottoman force sent to recover Egypt from French occupation under Napoleon. Following Napoleon's withdrawal, Muhammad Ali rose to power through a series of political maneuvers, and in 1805 he was named Wāli (governor) of Egypt and gained the rank of Pasha.

As Wāli, Ali attempted to modernize Egypt by instituting dramatic reforms in the military, economic and cultural spheres. He also initiated a violent purge of the Mamluks, consolidating his rule and permanently ending the Mamluk hold over Egypt.

Militarily, Ali recaptured the Arabian territories for the sultan, and conquered Sudan of his own accord. His attempt at suppressing the Greek rebellion failed decisively, however, following an intervention by the European powers at Navarino. In 1831, Ali waged war against the sultan, capturing Syria, crossing into Anatolia and directly threatening Constantinople, but the European powers forced him to retreat. After a failed Ottoman invasion of Syria in 1839, he launched another invasion of the Ottoman Empire in 1840; he defeated the Ottomans again and opened the way towards a capture of Constantinople. Faced with another European intervention, he accepted a brokered peace in 1842 and withdrew from the Levant; in return, he and his descendants were granted hereditary rule over Egypt and Sudan. His dynasty would rule Egypt for over a century, until the revolution of 1952 when King Farouk was overthrown by the Free Officers Movement led by Mohamed Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser, establishing the Republic of Egypt.

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Auguste Couder - The death of General Moreau.

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Louis-Philippe d'Orléans duc de Chartres (future King Louis-Philippe) in Reichenau. By Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Copy from an original by Couder, lost in 1848).

Without revealing his real identity for fear of being discovered during his exile in Switzerland in October 1793, Louis-Philippe got a job teaching geography, history, mathematics and modern languages at a boys' boarding school in Reichenau in Graubünden. His salary was 1400 francs and he worked under the name of Monsieur Chabos. There, he had a love affair with Marianne Banzori, the school cook, with whom he had a son...

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Auguste Couder, The Earth (Hercules and Antaeus), 1819