Edouard dobat-ponsan biography

  • Édouard Debat-Ponsan was a French academic painter noted for his allegorical works, scenes of peasant life and Orientalist works.
  • Édouard Debat-Ponsan (25 April 1847 – 29 January 1913) was a French academic painter noted for his allegorical works, scenes of peasant life and Orientalist.
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    This week’s dip into the missing artists archive brings a painter whose fine academic finish mixed pastoral scenes with strong political messages, and whose grandson was an architect of modern France’s system of government: Édouard Debat-Ponsan (1847–1913).

    He was born in Toulouse, and trained under Alexandre Cabanel at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, at the same time that Jules Bastien-Lepage was training in that studio. Indeed, Cabanel seems to have taught the majority of the most successful and popular painters of the 1880s.

    Debat-Ponsan’s first well-known works were completed around 1870, but most now appear to have been lost. He served in the military during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, and was a strong supporter of the Third Republic which succeeded it.

    As told in the Old Testament book of Judges, Jephthah swore an oath that, should he succeed against the Ammonites, the first object (possibly animate) to come out of the doors of his h

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    Edouard Bernard Debat-Ponsan

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    Edouard Bernard Debat-Ponsan

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    French Academic painter

    Born 1847 - Died 1913

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    Édouard Debat-Ponsan

    French painter (1847–1913)

    Édouard Debat-Ponsan

    Édouard Debat-Ponsan, c. 1901

    Born25 April 1847 (1847-04-25)

    Toulouse

    Died29 January 1913(1913-01-29) (aged 65)

    Paris

    NationalityFrench
    EducationCabanel
    Known forPainting
    MovementAcademic art, Oriental themes

    Édouard Debat-Ponsan (25 April 1847 – 29 January 1913) was a French academic painter noted for his allegorical works, scenes of peasant life and Orientalist works.

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    Debat-Ponsan was born in Toulouse. His younger brother was organist and composer Georges Debat-Ponsan, best known for his kroppsdel work Scherzo Symphonique.[1] A pupil of Cabanel, he was famous for his portraits of wealthy citizens and politicians in Paris, paintings of ancient history and scenes of peasant life. As a Republican and veteran of the War of 1870, Debat-Ponsan engaged in the struggle for rehabilitation of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, he e