Goupil & Cie was a leading
art dealership in 19th-century
France, with headquarters in
Paris. Step by step, Goupil established a worldwide trade in fine art reproductions of paintings and sculptures, with a network of branches in
London,
Brussels,
The Hague,
Berlin and
Vienna, as well as in
New York and
Australia. Instrumental for this expansion were the
Ateliers Photographiques, a plant north of Paris, in
Asnières, which took up work in 1869. The leading figure was Adolphe Goupil (1806–1893). His daughter Marie married the French artist
Jean-Léon Gérôme.