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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.

Édouard Debat-Ponsan
Édouard Debat-Ponsan, c.1901
Born	25 April 1847 Toulouse
Died	29 January 1913 Paris
Nationality	French
Education	Cabanel
Known for	Painting
Movement	Academic art, Oriental themes

Biography

Debat-Ponsan was born in Toulouse. 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 exhibited his allegorical painting Vérité sortant du puits (Truth coming out of the well) at the 1898 Salon,[1] 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).[2] His grandson was Michel Debré, who was Prime Minister of France.

Debat-Ponsan died in Paris on 29 January 1913.

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 Gustave Courbet. The painting One morning at the gates of the Louvre may have political overtones. It depicts Catherine de' Medici (in black) calmly viewing the bodies of victims of the 1572 St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. Debat-Ponsan may have actually intended to refer to more recent events in French history, such as the bloody suppression of the Commune of Paris, nine years before this painting was made.

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

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

• List of Orientalist artists
• Orientalism

References

External links

• Media related to Édouard Debat-Ponsan at Wikimedia Commons

На других языках

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[de] Édouard Debat-Ponsan

Édouard Bernard Debat-Ponsan (* 25. April 1847 in Toulouse, Département Haute-Garonne; † 29. Januar 1913 in Paris) war ein französischer Maler.

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- [en] Édouard Debat-Ponsan

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[fr] Édouard Debat-Ponsan

Édouard Debat-Ponsan, né le 25 avril 1847 à Toulouse et mort le 29 janvier 1913 à Paris, est un peintre français.

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[it] Édouard Debat-Ponsan

Édouard Debat-Ponsan (Tolosa, 25 aprile 1847 – Parigi, 29 gennaio 1913) è stato un pittore francese.

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[ru] Деба-Понсан, Эдуар

Эдуард Деба-Понсан (фр. Édouard Debat-Ponsan; родился в Тулузе 25 апреля 1847 — умер в Париже 29 января 1913) — французский художник.

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