life traveling d throughout Europe. The couple also owned at least one piece of notable art. In 1911, the dePont Couderts loaned a Pierre Puvis de Chavannes painting titled "Child Gathering Apples" to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The duPont Couderts sold the family home in New York in 1914 and purchased Windlesham Hall, a Tudor castle in Surrey, England. Death and legacy Amalia Küssner duPont Coudert died of a "lung ailment" at Montreux, Switzerland, in May 1932. Examples of her miniature portraits are in the collections of the Swope Art Museum in Terre Haute, Indiana, and the Cincinnati Art Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio. In addition to her paintings, Küssner Coudert is remembered for a 1906 article she wrote for Century Magazine about her experience painting Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra of Russia in March 1899. In "The Human Side of the Tsar," the artist describes in significant detail the royal lodgings, her interactions with the royal family and staff, and the process of painting their portraits, providing a rare glimpse into the personal lives of the family. She also relayed that the royal family referred to each other as "Emperor" and "Empress" and spoke English in the home. References External links "Amalia Küssner Coudert", image in the collections of the Indiana Historical Society at Indianapolis 1863 births 1932 deaths People from Terre Haute, Indiana American women painters Painters from Indiana People from Greencastle, Indiana 19th-century American painters 20th-century American painters 19th-century American women artists 20th-century American women artists