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François Hyppolite Debon (2 December 1807,
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– 29 February 1872, Paris), was a French painter. He studied under
Antoine-Jean Gros Antoine-Jean Gros (; 16 March 177125 June 1835) was a French painter of historical subjects. He was granted the title of Baron Gros in 1824. Gros studied under Jacques-Louis David in Paris and began an independent artistic career during the ...
and Abel de Pujol, and exhibited at the
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, where he won several medals, including a third class one in 1844 and two second class ones in 1835 and 1868.Benezit Dictionary of Artists
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Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics, an ...
said of Debon's 1845 painting ''The
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'' "What talent! What energy!" That canvas was later lost in a fire at the
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in 1905.


Biography

* Philippe Auquier, Catalog of paintings, sculptures, pastels and drawings, Barlatier, 1908, p. 81.


Works

* ''Un justicier'' (Self-portrait), 1835, Musée de la Vie romantique, Hôtel Scheffer-Renan, Paris; * ''La Bataille d'Hastings'', 1845, musée des beaux-arts, Caen; * ''Défaite d'Attila dans les plaines de Châlons'', 1848,
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; * ''L'Entrée de Guillaume le conquérant à Londres'', 1856, destroyed; * ''Portrait de Monsieur Guillard'', lost; * ''Portrait en pied de Guillaume le conquérant'', 1843, destroyed.


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National Library of France
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