Édouard Debat-Ponsan

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Édouard Debat-Ponsan
Cabanel
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.

Biography

Debat-Ponsan was born in

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 exhibited his allegorical painting Vérité sortant du puits (Truth coming out of the well) at the 1898 Salon,[2] later offered to Émile Zola
.

In 1877 he travelled to Italy thanks to a sum of 4,000 francs which was granted to him by the academy. There he saw different painting works, after which he began to paint portraits. In 1882–1883 he made a trip to Istanbul accompanied by his two brothers-in-law, Jules-Arsène Garnier and Henri-Eugène Delacroix (not to be confused with Eugène Delacroix). This trip inspired one of his most celebrated works, Le Massage, Scène de Hammam (The Massage at the Hamman; 1883) now in the Museum of Augustins in Toulouse.

He was father of the architect and Grand Prix de Rome winner in 1912, Jacques Debat-Ponsan, and grandfather of Michel Debré, who became Prime Minister under General Charles de Gaulle and was one of the drafters of the Fifth Republic. Other descendants include the politician Jean-Louis Debré. His daughter Jeanne Debat-Ponsan married Robert Debré founder of modern pediatrics in France (see Debré family).[3] His grandson was Michel Debré, who was Prime Minister of France.

Debat-Ponsan died in Paris on 29 January 1913.

La Vache bien gardée, 1890
Molière et Goudouli,1907

Work

His scenes of rural life, a very fashionable genre around 1830–1840, hesitate between the idealism of the peasant world and the militant realism of a

Commune of Paris
, nine years before this painting was made.

  • One morning at the gates of the Louvre, 1880
    One morning at the gates of the Louvre, 1880
  • Truth coming out of the well, 1898
    Truth coming out of the well, 1898
  • Resting in the Field, 1901
    Resting in the Field, 1901
  • La gitane a la toilette
    La gitane a la toilette
  • The grape harvest
    The grape harvest
Massage at the Hammam, 1883

Select list of paintings

  • Le récit de Philetas c. 1870 (now lost)
  • La Captivité des Juifs à Babylone (now lost)
  • Daniel Dans la fosse aux lions (Cathedral of Mirande)
  • Au sortir de la carrière, c. 1870 (Toulouse, collection)
  • Panorama de la bataille de Montretout, 1881 (in collaboration with Jules-Arsène Garnier and Henry-Eugène Delacroix)
  • Panorama de Constantinople, 1883 (in collaboration with Jules-Arsène Garnier and Henry-Eugène Delacroix)
  • Massage: Scène de Hammam , 1883 (Toulouse, Musée des Augustins)
  • Coin de vigne, 1886 (Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts)
  • La Gitane à la toilette, 1896
  • La Vérité sortant du puits, 1898 (Amboise, Musée Hôtel Morin).

See also

References

  1. ^ "Bardon Music | Organ Sheet Music | Compositions by Georges Debat-Ponsan". www.bardon-music.com. Retrieved 2022-11-18.
  2. ^ The Artistic Debate, Princeton Archived June 14, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Rehs Galleries: Edouard Bernard Debat-Ponsan". Rehs.com. 1913-01-29. Retrieved 2012-06-08.

External links

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