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François Hyppolite Debon (2 December 1807, Paris – 29 February 1872, Paris), was a French painter. He studied under Benezit Dictionary of Artists
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National Library of France
https://data.bnf.fr/en/12472468/francois-hippolyte_debon/ Data] 1816 births 1872 deaths Painters from Paris 19th-century French painters French male painters Pupils of Antoine-Jean Gros 19th-century French male artists {{France-painter-19thC-stub
François Hyppolite Debon (2 December 1807, Paris – 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 given title of Baron Gros in 1824.
Gros studied under Jacques-Louis David in Paris and began an independent artistic career during the French R ...
and Abel de Pujol, and exhibited at the Paris Salon
The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...
, where he won several medals, including a third class one in 1844 and two second class ones in 1835 and 1868./ref>
Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited fro ...
said of Debon's 1845 painting ''The Battle of Hastings'' "What talent! What energy!" That canvas was later lost in a fire at the musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen 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, Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille; * ''L'Entrée de Guillaume le conquérant à Londres'', 1856, destroyed; * ''Portrait de Monsieur Guillard'', lost; * ''Portrait en pied de Guillaume le conquérant'', 1843, destroyed.References
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National Library of France
https://data.bnf.fr/en/12472468/francois-hippolyte_debon/ Data] 1816 births 1872 deaths Painters from Paris 19th-century French painters French male painters Pupils of Antoine-Jean Gros 19th-century French male artists {{France-painter-19thC-stub