Antoine Marius Simon Ponchin (29 October 1872, Marseille - 15 December 1933, Paris) was a French

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landscape painter.

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His father, Joseph Marius Ponchin (1846-1891) was also a painter. He was a student of , Julien Gustave Gagliardini and

Jean-Baptiste Olive Jean-Baptiste Olive ( – 1936) was a French painter. Biography Olive, the son of a wine merchant, was born in Marseille's Saint-Martin neighbourhood. Étienne Cornellier, a decorator, encouraged him to register at École des beaux-arts de Ma ...

. From 1893 until his death, he was a regular exhibitor at the

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. 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

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, 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.Association des anciens du lycée Albert-Sarraut
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by Albert Sarraut himself, who was then the Colonial Minister. That same year, he was named a Knight in the Legion. His works may be seen at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Chambéry,

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, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen and the Huntsville Museum of Art.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ponchin, Antoine 19th-century French painters French male painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists 1872 births 1934 deaths Artists from Marseille 19th-century French male artists

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