Édouard Debat-Ponsan
Édouard Debat-Ponsan (Toulouse, 25 April 1847 – Paris, 29 January 1913) was a French academic painter.
Biography


A pupil of Cabanel, Debat-Ponsan 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 (shown here) at the 1898 Salon, [1] later offered to Émile Zola. 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]

References
- ↑ The Artistic Debate, Princeton Archived June 14, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Rehs Galleries: Edouard Bernard Debat-Ponsan". Rehs.com. 1913-01-29. Retrieved 2012-06-08.
External links
Media related to Édouard Debat-Ponsan at Wikimedia Commons