Edouard Debat-Ponsan (1847 - 1913) was born in Toulouse, April 25, 1847 and died in Paris, January 29, 1913. He is considered an important portrait and landscape painter from the French school. Debat-Ponsan received his formal training at l’ Ecole des Beau-Arts under Cabanel. In 1874, he was awarded prix Troyon at the Institute and in 1875, second in the prix de Rome. In 1889, Edouard Debat-Ponsan was invited to exhibit at the Universal Exhibition. He was awarded a bronze medal for “Le Portrait equestre du General Boulange” which he refused. Ponsan was very dissatisfied with how the exhibition was organized and how the judging was conducted. He very abruptly removed his painting and returned to France.
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