Edouard Debate-Ponsan

Edouard Debate-Ponsan , born with Toulouse the April 25th 1847 and died in Paris the January 29th 1913, is a painter French.

Biography

Raise Cabanel, famous for its portraits of the upper middle class and the Parisian politicians, its paintings of history of the Antiquity and its scenes of the country life. Republican, war veteran of the war of 1870, Debate-Ponsan engages in the fight for the réhabilition of the captain Dreyfus, while exposing to the Living room of 1898 his Vérité leaving the well , table manifest which will be offered in subscription for Emile Zola. Father of the architect and large Price of Rome 1912, Jacques Debate-Ponsan, he is also the grandfather of Michel Debré, Prime Minister under the de Gaulle General and one of the writers of the fifth republic, and the back grandfather of Jean-Louis Debré, politician, his daughter Jeanne Debate-Ponsan having married Robert Debré the founder of modern pediatry in France.

Its work

Its production of the first years after its formation remains the great kind learned at the school, the painting of history which it develops with the Living room is supposed exalter the moral order and to show the social and educational virtue of Article Debate-Ponsan often expresses there the tragedy and the pathetic one in erudite compositions which will gain little by little in realism. Of these six participations in the Grand Prix of Rome it will gain only one first second Grand Prix for the Captivity of the Jews in Babylon lost today. It profits from its first purchases by the State as in 1875 a sum of 2000 francs for its table Daniel in the lion's den which throne today in the cathedral of Mirande or the following year the Girl of Jephté one of the most beautiful tables of history of the painter and entered to the Museum of Beautiful arts of Carcassonne. In 1877 he travels to Italy thanks to a sum of 4000 francs which is granted to him by the Academy. He then saw various work of painting and as from 1880 will become a portraitist society man. In 1882-1883 it accomplishes a voyage in Istambul accompanied as of his two brothers-in-law Jules-Arsene Garnier and Henri-Eugene Delacroix (homonymous of the great painter Delacroix), after Italy it is the picturesque East which reveals its light with the painter, it will paint in 1883 the Massage, Scène of Hamam , preserved at the Musée of Augustins in Toulouse, this naked body entirely abandoned with the expert hands of a masseuse and offered to the spectator a strong erotic tension releases. Orders for portraits of ministers, generals follow of which that of the general Boulanger Minister for the war to famous the Revue of Longchamps , ambassadors, portraits society men of society women and Parisian personalities of the upper middle classes whose majority are always preserved by these families, portraits of personalities of South-west, Pedro Gailhard, director of the Opera and his mistress in Portrait of Mrs. Sandrini in the ballet of Maladeta , today both in the collections of the Museum of the Opera of Paris. Some beautiful fabrics of meetings of family of a great sensitivity, a meeting of music at Antonins order of close relations or friends, members of his family Tantines with Préousse In my greenhouse , Portrait of Jeanne as a communicant , Robert and Jeanne Debré with Nazelles . In its scenes of the rural life, kind sails very about it about the years 1830-1840, hesitant between an idealism of the country world and the militant realism of a Gustave Courbet, then official with Rosa Bonheur, Jules Breton, it occupies a choice place which its strong family tie which links it with its ground of South-west reinforces in its aptitude to seize all the interiority of its characters to the image of Jules Bastien-Lepage or Leon Augustin Lhermitte, them also resulting from the farming community.

Decorative painting

Debate-Ponsan is the author of a pictorial scene in the room of the municipal council of Capitole of Toulouse, where one sees the characters of Molière and Pierre Goudouli in the court of a house Languedoc ienne. The Molière young person listens sitted, the bienvaillant glance, the Goudouli old man who déclame his poems, the helping hand towards the sky. A maidservant attends the scene in the corner of a door. All the scene bathes in an atmosphere of tenderness, complicity and love, which one will often find in the country scenes all whole of authenticity and realism, as has Midday of 1890. With the ceiling, a subject full with freshness: the Garonne and Ariège descending the Pyrenees run to sprinkle Toulouse. In this room is also present paintings of Paul Gervais representing monuments of the city and of its area and scenes pastoral. A painting of Andre Roucolle ( the Entry of Louis XI in Toulouse ), as well as busts carved by Marc Arcis, of which that of Raymond IV and kings Visigoth S, are present in niches. A pink marble plate lists the whole of the mayors of the city since 1790.

To Debate-Ponsan wire and grandson of Toulouse musicians was entrusted the realization of a ceiling in the room of Famous on the topic of the allegory of arts, which it will extend to all arts. On a section of wall of the room, the visit with the sculptor reconstitutes the episode supposed of the visit of the cardinal Loménie de Brienne with the sculptor François Lucas in 1775 on the building site of the large low-relief of the port of the Mouth in Toulouse.

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