Antoine Ponchin
Antoine Marius Simon Ponchin (29 October 1872, Marseille - 15 December 1933, Paris) was a French Impressionist landscape painter. Biography His father, Joseph Marius Ponchin (1846-1891) was also a painter. He was a student of , Julien Gustave Gagliardini and Jean-Baptiste Olive. From 1893 until his death, he was a regular exhibitor at the Salon (Paris), Salon. He received honorable mention there in 1904 and a third-class medal in 1906, the same year he was awarded the Prix de Raigecourt-Goyon for landscape painting. In 1910, he received a second-class medal. In 1922, after having participated in the and being awarded the Prix de l'Indochine, he was sent on a mission to Hanoi by the Colonial Ministry. He was accompanied by his son, Joseph Henri (1897-1981), who was also a painter. Together, they decorated the new Lycée Albert-Sarraut. The mission was a great success and he was nominated for the Legion of Honor by Albert Sarraut himself, who was then the Colonial Minister. Th ...
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