Like other members of the Barbizon School, Dupré began his career as a porcelain painter, working in the factory of his father François Dupré. Gradually becoming more influenced by naturalistic landscape painting, he took lessons from <a href=" https://findartvalue.com/artist/jean-michel-diebolt">Jean-Michel Diébolt</a>, and began making sojourns to paint natural settings in the provinces. Dupré's